 It was a sad week in Augusta. A minority of the House of Representatives may have killed ranked-choice voting in Maine.
The vote was on a bill I co-sponsored to propose a constitutional amendment that would have addressed concerns raised about ranked-choice voting by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. The amendment won majority support in a 78-68 vote, but that wasn’t enough to meet the two-thirds threshold necessary to send a constitutional amendment out to voters for approval. The amendment was never about ranked-choice voting. It was about whether to put the final decision on a voter-approved law back in the hands of the voters, where it belongs. Unfortunately, without a major shift in votes, the amendment is dead, and the path forward for ranked-choice voting is difficult at best.
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 The protection of personal privacy is an issue that transcends party affiliation, where you come from and is something that overall Mainers value.
I’d like to give you a scenario. What if your personal internet search history was shared with everyone in your neighborhood? What if it was shared with all of your co-workers? What about any information you enter on a website like vital health information and your location to the highest bidder? We aren’t talking in the abstract. This would be real life if we don’t act now. |
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