Don’t be fooled by ranked-choice voting

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For 200 years, Maine voters elected our public officials using the constitutional one-person, one-vote process. The candidate who received the most votes on Election Day won — straightforward and simple.

This commonsense plurality method was tossed out the window in November 2018. After two years of misleading Mainers, liberal activists and millions of out-of-state dollars finally convinced a small minority of registered voters, only 15% of registered voters in a special election, to adopt the confusing ranked-choice voting method for the first time in federal elections for our state’s U.S. House and Senate seats.

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