John,

I wanted to drop you a note and provide an update on our Repeal RCV effort.

First, we far exceeded our goal for signature collection on Super Tuesday. In fact, I think we collected almost twice as many signatures as we expected to collect.

That said, there are rumors floating around that we collected everything we need. Those rumors are false, we still have a fair bit of work to go to hit our goal but we are in great shape. PLUS, I want to make sure that every single one of you who wants to sign gets to sign the legal petition to protect One Person, One Vote.

The outpouring of support after we fought and won the legal battle with the City of Portland to collect signatures in Portland polling places has been tremendous and the financial support that came in proved that we are ready to get rid of this bad bill.

Now, as you know, we covered more than 200 polling places on Super Tuesday. We did our best to cover as many as we could, but many of you have reached out to me saying there was nobody at your polling place.

The reality is, there were some places we could not find a volunteer on a Tuesday, and in some cases, the signatures came in so fast our people filled all their sheets before polls closed.

We have been collecting information from people who want to sign at the website: repealrankedchoice.com and collating the info into regions and towns. In coming weeks, we will be deploying volunteers to come collect your signature and give other people in your town and region a chance to sign as well.

It is important to me to make sure you get to sign and be on the record as a Maine citizen opposing RCV.

If you did not get to sign on Super Tuesday and you want to sign, please go here right now and just check off the "I want to Sign the People's Veto Paper Petition" box at the bottom of the form. (Click here for the form)

As well, we are grateful for anyone willing to circulate a petition and collect signatures from friends, family and neighbors. We have packets we can drop in the mail for you if you would like.

We are well on our way and we want to keep getting stronger and make sure every single Mainer who wants to Repeal RCV gets their name on the petition.

Thank you for all that you do.

Sincerely,

Dr. Demi Kouzounas
Chair
Maine GOP

P.S. - I have received a lot of inquiries about President Trump's actual vote total on Tuesday. By our estimation, he received what may be a record-breaking number of votes for an incumbent Presidential candidate in Maine! We'll keep you posted. The Secretary of State has not yet released the final numbers, but we are not going to let those numbers be kept hidden from public view.

We are very, very proud of how many of you turned out Tuesday to show your support!