Under the ranked-choice voting system, voters rank three or more candidates on a ballot in order of preference. If no candidate gets more than 50%, the last-place candidate is eliminated and second-place votes are tallied.
Maine moved ahead Friday on plans to become the first state to allow voters to rank candidates in a general presidential election.
But future presidential primaries would use ranked-choice voting, according to the governor’s office.Maine voters in 2016 approved ranked voting, but the system was limited to federal races and primaries. Supporters of the system who have been trying to spread it to more states cheered the expansion of ranked-choice voting Friday.“Now Mainers have the option to vote freely for an independent or third-party presidential candidate that best speaks to them and still indicate a backup choice between the major-party candidates,” FairVote President and CEO Rob Richie said.
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