Maine to allow ranked votes in general presidential election
Source: Associated Press
Maine to allow ranked votes in general presidential election
By MARINA VILLENEUVE
September 6, 2019
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Maine moved ahead Friday with plans to become the first state to allow voters to rank candidates in a general presidential election.
Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, said shell allow a bill to become law in January without her signature. The legislation requires ranked choice voting in presidential elections and primaries.
Ranked voting wont be used in a planned presidential primary in March 2020, Mills office said. The bill wont go into effect until 90 days after the Legislature is set to adjourn in April.
But future presidential primaries would use ranked choice voting, according to the governors office.
Maine voters in 2016 approved ranked voting, but the system was limited to federal races and primaries.
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