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- Maine Question 5, formally An Act to Establish Ranked-Choice Voting, is a citizen-initiated referendum question that qualified for the Maine November 8, 2016 statewide ballot. It was approved by a vote of 52% in favor, 48% opposed. It sought to change how most Maine elections will be conducted from a plurality voting system to a ranked-choice voting system (RCV, also known as instant runoff voting). It appeared on the ballot along with elections for President of the United States, Maine's two U.S. House seats, the legislature, five other ballot questions, and various local elections. The referendum was successful, making Maine the first state to use ranked choice voting for its federal elections. An advisory opinion by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, issued on May 23, 2017, stated that the court would rule ranked-choice voting unconstitutional if it came before them, with respect to elections for state offices. This led the Maine Legislature to vote to delay its implementation until 2021 to allow time for a Constitutional amendment to be passed to permit it. Supporters gathered signatures to force a successful people's veto referendum on the matter in order to prevent the delay. (en)
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- *MaineToday Media newspapers; Portland Press Herald, Morning Sentinel, Kennebec Journal
*Brunswick Times-Record (en)
- *Walter Ash, Mayor of Belfast
*Alan Casavant, Mayor of Biddeford
*Nelson Durgin, Mayor of Bangor
*David Rollins, Mayor of Augusta
*Ethan Strimling, Mayor of Portland (en)
- *Justin Alfond, Minority Leader of the Maine Senate, former President of the Maine Senate
*Cush Anthony, former state representative
*Dillon Bates, state representative
*Roberta Beavers, state representative
*Henry Beck, state representative
*Anne Beebe-Center, state representative
*Kerri Bickford, former state representative
*Patricia Blanchette, Bangor City Councilor, former state representative
*Andrea Boland, former state representative
*Gen. Peter Bowman, former Republican state senator, former commander of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
*Jim Boyle, former Democratic state senator
*John Brautigam, former state representative
*Cathy Breen, Democratic state senator
*Michael Brennan, former Mayor of Portland, former Majority Leader of the Maine Senate
*Joe Brooks, former state representative
*Tom Bull, former state representative
*Beverly Bustin, former Assistant state senate Majority Leader
*Christine Burstein, state representative
*Emily Cain, former state senator, Candidate for U.S. Representative
*James J. Campbell, state representative
*Ralph Chapman, state representative
*Ben Chipman, state representative
*Herbert Clark, former state representative
*John Cleveland, former Democratic state senator
*Joan Cohen, former state representative
*Janice Cooper, state representative
*Dennis Damon, former Democratic state senator
*Jerry Davis, former state senator and state representative
*Michael Devin, state representative
*Robert Duchesne, state representative
*John Eder, former state representative
*Jeffrey Evangelos, state representative
*Richard Farnsworth, state representative
*Susan Farnsworth, former state representative
*Stacey Fitts, former state representative
*Craig Hickman, state representative
*Roger Katz, Republican state senator
*Hannah Pingree, former Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
*Dick Woodbury, former state senator and state representative (en)
- *Joe Baldacci, Bangor City Councilor
*Shenna Bellows, Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 2014, former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine
*Eliot Cutler, independent candidate for Governor of Maine in 2010 and 2014
*Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
*Mark D. Grover, former Cumberland County Commissioner
*David Lemoine, former Maine State Treasurer
*Chellie Pingree, U.S. Representative (en)
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- Maine Question 5, formally An Act to Establish Ranked-Choice Voting, is a citizen-initiated referendum question that qualified for the Maine November 8, 2016 statewide ballot. It was approved by a vote of 52% in favor, 48% opposed. It sought to change how most Maine elections will be conducted from a plurality voting system to a ranked-choice voting system (RCV, also known as instant runoff voting). It appeared on the ballot along with elections for President of the United States, Maine's two U.S. House seats, the legislature, five other ballot questions, and various local elections. The referendum was successful, making Maine the first state to use ranked choice voting for its federal elections. (en)
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