Ranked voting in Maine a go for presidential election

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine Supreme Court decision means ranked choice voting will be used for the first time in a presidential race anywhere in the United States. Justices concluded that the Maine Republican Party failed to reach the threshold of signatures needed for a “People’s Veto” referendum aimed at rejecting a state law expanding ranked voting to the presidential election. The GOP collected tens of thousands of signatures but came up shy of the needed level of