Christian Science Monitor quotes Brewer in article on ranked-choice voting
The Christian Science Monitor quoted Mark Brewer in an article about Maine’s ranked-choice voting ballot initiative. If the initiative passes, it would enable voters to rank all the candidates in a race. If no one gets a majority, the votes of the last-place candidate would be apportioned out to the higher finishers according to second-place rankings — and so on — until someone wins, according to the article. Since candidates will need to compete for second-place votes, some argue the practice will make them more likely to be less partisan, the article states. Others worry that ranked-choice voting could drive down turnout overall. “The more complicated you make voting, the less likely people are going to be to vote, and ranked-choice voting undoubtedly makes it more complicated,” Brewer said. “It’s not a cure-all for everything that ails American democracy.”