Here's how a controversial voting system will decide a congressional race in Maine
by Kurtis Lee, Los Angeles Times
Nov 09, 2018
3 minutes
For the first time in U.S. history, a controversial voting system known as "ranked choice" is being used to decide a federal election.
It's happening in Maine, which adopted the system in 2016.
Rather than marking a single candidate, each voter ranks them all, assigning a first-place vote, a second-place vote and so on down the ballot.
If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, the lowest-ranked one is eliminated and the
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