Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in a Presidential Election

Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by hef19898 on Friday October 30, 2020 @06:00PM (#24947288)

You are legally obliged to have a ID card or passport. You also have a officially registered primary residency. Being a German citizen makes you eligible for all German and European elections.

No need to present your ID to vote, your invitation is enough. Your ID will do if you forgot that invitation.

So in a sense, we have. A mandatory, government run. You cannot be purged, we don't sign ballots (our elections have to be 100% anonymous), we don't need our ID to vote. And any party affiliation is not part of that system. makes stuff a lot easier, and individual parties cannot toy around with it.

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Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by newacct583 on Friday October 30, 2020 @08:50PM (#24948186)

For clarity: no one signs a ballot in the US. States with remote voting options generally have a ballot envelope which must be signed and sealed. That is: you have to authenticate that the ballot was cast by the right person, but the vote itself can only be tallied anonymously.

This is sort of a dumb idea, really. But it's not as broken as you imagine.

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Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by hef19898 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:02AM (#24950173)

Thanks for the clarification, that puts things right.

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