Press-Herald: Rep. Bruce Poliquin is appealing a recent federal judge’s rejection of his lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of ranked-choice voting. Poliquin and three other residents of Maine’s 2nd Congressional District filed a notice of appeal on Monday, four days after… Continue reading

Here is the unsurprising court order. And see Roll Call: Maine Recount Is a Low-Drama Affair — Unlike the Election.  

Watch at C-SPAN.

Larry Lessig for USA Today.

WaPo: Democratic challenger Jared Golden prevailed Thursday in a Maine congressional contest, defeating a Republican incumbent in the first federal race in the country in which a ranked-choice voting system was used to determine the winner. After Election Day, Golden,… Continue reading

BAN with a link to the order.

NPR reports.

Rob Richie blogs.

KFGO reports.  

Jack Santucci blogs.

Dave Daley for Democracy Journal, with the subhead: “If more states adopted ranked-choice voting, far fewer elections would include unsatisfactory, binary choices and minority-backed winners.”