AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Election workers are running ballots through high-speed machines and uploading results as Mainers await results in Democratic primary elections.
Meanwhile, private courier drivers Friday continued the retrieval of remaining ballots for tabulations.
The state’s election officials said they hope to make available unofficial election results next week.
With ranked-choice voting, voters rank the candidate preferences from first to last on the ballot, and a candidate who collects a majority of the vote wins.
If there is no majority, then losing candidates are eliminated and votes reallocated in additional rounds of tabulations.
These rounds will happen all at once, in seconds.
It’ll come into play in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. It also could be used in the Democratic 2nd Congressional District race if Jared Golden comes up short of a majority.
