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Taking the First Jump: Inside Alaska’s and Maine’s Successful RCV Movements – Part 3
Read more: Taking the First Jump: Inside Alaska’s and Maine’s Successful RCV Movements – Part 3Alaska’s Ranked Choice Voting Journey Similarly to Maine, Alaska faced numerous gubernatorial elections where the winner didn’t get a majority vote. However, the Alaska Legislature decided to take action to explore voting options. In fact, the legislature referred Measure 1, the Alaska Automatic Runoff Voting Initiative, to voters in the 2002 August primary. Unfortunately, the measure…
Taking the First Jump: Inside Alaska’s and Maine’s Successful RCV Movements – Part 2
Read more: Taking the First Jump: Inside Alaska’s and Maine’s Successful RCV Movements – Part 2Maine’s innovative bottom-up approach Maine organizers continued to face opposition from the legislature throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, so they decided to take a bottom-up approach to gain support. They pivoted to enacting RCV in local municipalities. When Portland, the state’s most populous city, was electing its decennial charter commission in 2010 to review…
Taking the First Jump: Inside Alaska’s and Maine’s Successful RCV Movements – Part 1
Read more: Taking the First Jump: Inside Alaska’s and Maine’s Successful RCV Movements – Part 1Pioneer States: Inside Alaska’s and Maine’s Successful RCV Movements “When I first tried to talk to people about ranked-choice voting (RCV), people laughed at me. They thought it was cute and funny,” said the former Maine state Rep. Diane Russell (D-Portland) when she first started organizing to get RCV on the Maine ballot. Fast forward…