Green Party's Jill Stein pushes Maine's ranked-choice voting effort

[TexasTowelie]

AUGUSTA – Former presidential candidate Jill Stein is joining a push to get Maine to enact ranked-choice voting.

The ranked-choice system is designed to let voters rank candidates on ballots. Proponents say it eliminates spoilers and ensures majority support for the winner.

Voters chose to enact ranked-choice voting in Maine with a 2016 referendum vote. But the system may never be put in place because of delays imposed by state lawmakers who say it conflicts with the Maine Constitution.

Stein, who ran losing Green Party campaigns in 2012 and 2016, is calling for support of an ongoing so-called people’s veto campaign that could enact ranked-choice voting. She sent out a mass email on Wednesday urging supporters in Maine to sign petitions that are circulating in support of the veto.

http://www.pressherald.com/2017/11/17/green-partys-jill-stein-pushes-maines-ranked-choice-voting-effort/
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[Kleveland]

1. Fuck Jill Stein!

Seriously.

She needs to fade into deserved obscurity.

She is a nut case.

[RandySF]

2. Jill who?

[TomSlick]

3. I appreciate that it's illogical.

But if Jill Stein is for it, I'm against it.

[LBM20]

5. Ranked Choice Instant Runoff Voting is GOOD. (Stein is not, but RCV IS.) We NEED RCV!!

Imagine these upcoming primaries with 11 Dem candidates. We could get a nominee with just 20% or even less of the vote. INSANE. We MUST have Ranked Choice Voting.

[MarianJack]

4. Hello from Winthrop, Maine.

Ranked choice IS good, but Jill Stein can go perform an anatomically impossible act of procreation on herself!

PEACE!