Ranked Choice Voting has so many perils, here is just another. Often overlooked, the lack of transparency and accountability.
Stunning development in Maine’s ongoing election counting…
The Secretary of State’s Office is claiming, one week after primary Election Day, that the Biddeford clerk sent them the wrong thumb drive.
Because Maine has Ranked-Choice Voting, the results can’t be counted in a municipality by the clerk who has had the job for 30 years. Instead, a thumb drive has to be couriered to a centralized location where the Secretary of State’s office enters all of the data into an algorithm and then, like the Delphine oracle, comes out with the results so indeterminate time later.
Biddeford is a massive Democrat city in CD1. But these results will not alter the U.S. Senate primary and they won’t really matter outside of local elections and the Dem Gov primary.
Really the only election that this thumb-drive could change the outcome of is … THE ONE SECRETARY OF STATE SHENNA BELLOWS IS RUNNING IN 😂
She’s like House of Cards meets VEEP. I’m praying that the results out of Biddeford go Shenna’s way by two standard deviations from other cities. Maybe then Democrats will let us go back to free and fair elections counted by city clerks rather than eggheads in Augusta.
We will never know the chain of custody on that thumb drive.