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Angus King: “Ranked choice voting, which the people of Maine adopted not…”

Featuring: Angus King, Independent | U.S. Senate Maine

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A Conversation With Senator Angus King

Published | Video Starts at 46:22

I understand the Philadelphia Inquirer is following this model and I think some of the papers in Colorado and Denver, so this is, I think, an important step forward. Ranked choice voting, which the people of Maine adopted not once but twice by referendum, I think makes a lot of sense. and it allows people to say it's, well, ranked choice voting is too complicated a term. It should be called instant runoff. That's all it is. (46:22–46:30)

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