Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: John Greenman
The latest edition of our multipartisan political roundtable discussions of the upcoming elections, with a focus today on Question 5 on Maine’s ballot this fall, a citizen’s initiative that reads: “Do you want to allow voters to rank their choices of candidates in elections for U.S. Senate, Congress, Governor, State Senate, and State Representative, and to have ballots counted at the state level in multiple rounds in which last-place candidates are eliminated until a candidate wins by majority?”.
Guests: Area residents Betsy Garrold (Green Party supporter), Dave Gulya (Trump supporter), Renee Trust (Republican-leaning Libertarian), Steve Godsoe (Clinton supporter) and Tim Wilson (Bernie Sanders supporter) — and (by phone) former State Senator Dick Woodbury, one of the promoters of the ranked choice voting question.
FMI:
http://maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/
http://www.lwvme.org/RCV.html
http://www.fairvote.org/rcv#how_rcv_works
https://ballotpedia.org/Maine_Ranked_Choice_Voting_Initiative,_Question_5_(2016)