If your first choice was the candidate who was removed from the ballot then in the next round your ballot will count for your second choice candidate. These knockout rounds continue until a candidate ...

The Maine Legislature's legal affairs committee has cleared a proposal to expand the state's ranked choice voting system, applying it to gubernatorial elections. If the initiative clears full ...

Ranked choice voting will be used in Maine for the third straight federal election cycle. Skip to content. Surprise Squad. Ask ME. ... as seen in the sample ballot below from Auburn.

In 2023 there were 113 bills related to ranked-choice voting (RCV) in 38 states – some to allow the process, others to ban it. Currently, RCV is allowed in some form in 14 states, and banned ...

Ranked-choice voting or RCV is a system that only some states and counties use, but there's a growing push to implement it in wider U.S. elections. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

“Maine’s use of ranked choice voting also eliminates any harm if President Trump is ultimately disqualified,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in a Jan. 23 state court filing.

Ranked choice voting (RCV) — which allows voters to rank candidates by preference on their ballots — has emerged as a popular reform, and multiple states, including Colorado, Oregon and Nevada ...

AMY GOODMAN: George Cheung, if you can talk about — well, you now have ranked-choice voting in two state elections — right? — in Alaska and Maine, and 10 cities.

The first ranked-choice election in the US took place in 1915 in Ashtabula, Ohio, according to the nonprofit Election Administration Resource Center. Several cities adopted it in the 1920s and 1930s.