What happens if you list the same name each time?
Is the ballot thrown out?
The first one only counts.
“What happens if you list the same name each time? Is the ballot thrown out?”
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I wondered that too, in 2018.
If you fill in the “oval” for the same candidate over and over, only the first oval is officially counted. The ballot is not thrown out.
At the time, I filled in only the first “oval” with the felt pen that was provided....the “oval” for GOP incumbent congressman Bruce Poliquin.
Rank Choice voting was tossed out by the courts for state elections, because the Maine Constitution mentions a “plurality” of votes being sufficient to elect a candidate.
Apparently the federal Constitution makes no mention of a plurality, so Rank Choice applies to Maine’s two U.S. House seats and two U.S. Senate seats. A law was passed in the state capital recently so Rank Choice voting now applies to the presidential race a year from now.