Soon, the Maine Legislature will be choosing whether to amend the Maine Constitution to allow ranked-choice voting or to repeal the law that was passed by the voters.

It seems to me that the voters made that choice already by passing the law in the first place. The voters of Maine understood that ranked-choice voting guarantees that the candidate elected is the one most liked by everyone, instead of producing spoilers. (If no candidate gains a majority, the second-choice votes of the least popular candidate are distributed to the others.)

We should not let the politicians override the will of the people; that is not democracy.

Carolyn Davis, Lisbon Falls

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