Brewer speaks with Maine Public about ranked-choice voting arguments

Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public for a report on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court recently hearing oral arguments about the state’s ranked-choice voting law. The court’s views on the constitutionality of the law will likely influence legislators to either keep the first-in-the-nation system, ditch it altogether or try to amend the constitution, Maine Public reported. The system could influence Gov. Paul LePage’s potential challenge to independent U.S. Sen. Angus King, the report states. “A ranked-choice voting system makes his road to victory more difficult, and I think it might change his calculus, for sure,” Brewer said.