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As Mass. weighs ranked-choice voting, Maine's 'experiment' offers evidence of promises kept, still unfulfilled
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In a political system awash in big spending and deep divisions, Massachusetts voters are being pitched a system this November that purports to “help fix these problems."
So-called spoiler candidates would be eliminated, and negative campaigning curbed, advocates argue. Voters would have more choices, and the influence of money could be blunted, they say.
They’re all arguments Maine voters heard, too, before they voted in 2016 to implement what’s known as ranked-choice voting, and again in 2018 to essentially keep it.
But two years after ranked-choice elections began there, the statewide system has lived a tangled existence, buffeted by legal challenges and partisan bickering that complicate the road map Maine could otherwise provide to Massachusetts voters.
Read the full story.
More coverage:
— Ranked-choice voting debated as referendum nears
— Opinion: Ranked-choice voting is a better way to vote
— Opinion: Why ranked choice is the wrong choice
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