The Maine Secretary of State’s Office announced Thursday morning that three races are officially moving on to ranked choice voting tabulation, including both the Democrat and Republican primaries for governor, as well as the Democrat primary in District 2.
Given the wide field of candidates running in each of these races, it is not unexpected that they will be subject to ranked choice tabulation.
All three of these races are progressing to ranked choice tabulation because no one candidate received over 50 percent of the vote.
Once tabulation commences, the candidate with the fewest number of votes will be knocked out of the running in the first round.
Votes will then be distributed to whichever candidates were marked as a second choice on ballots cast by those supporting the eliminated candidate. The tabulation of all other ballots will remain the same.
If no candidate has at least 50 percent support at this point, the process restarts.
The candidate with the least number of votes after the first round of ranked choice tabulation is eliminated and ballots are redistributed to the remaining candidates based on voters’ selections.
If all the selected candidates on a voter’s ballot have been eliminated from the running, the ballot is then removed from consideration.
Once a candidate emerges with at least 50 percent of the vote, the tabulation stops and that candidate is declared the winner.
In ranked choice elections, only candidates who emerge in the top three at the end of the next-to-last round of tabulation are eligible to request a recount, unlike non-ranked choice elections where any unsuccessful candidate may do so.
The state hopes to have the results of the ranked choice tabulation ready for these races by June 19, 2026. Official results will be posted within 20 days after the election on the Election Results page.
Click Here to Read the Secretary of State’s Full Press Release
Let the games begin !
Let’s see who gets the nod from Sheena .
I CAN NOT that Believe Maine people voted for this RCV Scam …..TWICE .
I still don’t understand how it works…idiocy.
What an absolute joke. When a system is rejected in a lunatic fringe state like California what makes the idiotic Democrats in this state think they can make it work?
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Laural Libby has an entire Video series on how RCV works and how many votes are “wiped as inactive” and not counted after the first round. The final choice can come down to a small nmuber of votes deciding with thousands of votes being wiped. In reality not ALL votes count and voting for a single person does not appear in the final tally.
Did Sheena not remove herself from being in charge of elections again?
Trust her, everything is on the level….not
Question: is it normal for The League of Women Voters in Maine to drop off a big stack of voter registration cards to the city more than a week AFTER the “selection” date?
someone i know and trust works as a clerk for a large-sized Maine city and the stack she got from League of Women Voters was filled with nothing but M.E. and African names, all with the same few p.o. box addresses, and EVERY SINGLE ONE A DEMOCRAT. she said these registration cards all looked so sketchy, she didn’t even approve half the stack.
Who can she talk to about this, preferably without getting targeted or creating serious problems for her on the job?
Nostramamas, The League of Women Voters in Maine needs a name change to: The League of Marxist Women Voters. Or, The League of Karen Voters.
So if the ballots are all compiled, why is This taking so long? (A rhetoricaL question).
RCV stands for “Republicans Can’t (be) Voted (in)”.
“And we keep counting the votes until they come out right”
Here is what I don’t understand and would like an explanation. When you place your ballot in the box that registers your vote, why doesn’t those machines be made capable of recording the votes for each candidate as they get entered. Oh yeah, I forgot, the software might be manipulated?
Why doesn’t the article lit what the original numbers were for the candidates?