A proposed law expanding ranked-choice voting into Maine’s state offices would violate the state constitution, the Maine Supreme Court ruled.
The law would allow additional vote tabulations in conflict with the constitution’s provisions requiring a “plurality of votes,” the court said in a Monday advisory opinion.
“Voting by a plurality was not understood to mean anything other than that the person receiving the most votes was the winner of an election,” the opinion said. “The amendments to require a ‘plurality’ did not change what constitutes a vote under the Maine Constitution and did not ...