With 54%, Janet Mills wins Democratic nomination in race for Maine governor

[TexasTowelie]

AUGUSTA — Attorney General Janet Mills won the Democratic nomination for governor on Wednesday following the nation’s first use of ranked-choice voting to decide a statewide election.

After days of scanning, downloading and certifying ballots, the Secretary of State’s Office ran all of the results from the June 12 election through the ranked-choice voting tabulation software. The result: Mills won the seven-person primary with 54.1 percent of the vote, followed by veteran and attorney Adam Cote with 45.9 percent, in unofficial results. The margin between Mills and Cote – the Democratic front-runners following the balloting last week – was just under 9,500 votes once all of the ranked-choice votes had been reallocated.

A former legislator and district attorney from Farmington, Mills will face off against Republican Shawn Moody and two independents, Alan Caron and Terry Hayes, in November’s race for governor. Both Mills and Hayes, who currently serves as state treasurer, will be vying to become Maine’s first woman governor.

Mills, 70, said she will run a positive campaign “about moving the state forward and about bettering the prospects for the people of Maine,” while praising the contributions of her primary opponents.

Read more: https://www.pressherald.com/2018/06/20/ranked-choice-voting-tabulation-to-start-at-6-p-m/

[RandySF]

1. Hooray!

Primary voters are really paying attention to electability.

[beachbum bob]

2. a positive campaign allows the otherside to win, we have to stand toe to toe with likes

of them...hasn't Maine learn yet? They elected reelected La Paige, an embarrassment of an human being was that because democrats ran a "positive campaign"?

[MarianJack]

3. Hello from Winthrop, Maine.

I think that the big story of the "glorious" Paul LePage's winning a second term was that he was rescued by Eliot Cutler, an independent who drew votes away from Democrat Mike Michaud. Cutler's platform could be summed up with "vote for me b ecause I want to be governor!"

Alan Caron is trying to be this year's Cutler, which just might get Republican Shawn Moody, whom is about as sharp as a bag of sledge hammers.

PEACE!