Breitbart: Outgoing Maine Gov. Paul LePage decided to troll a Democratic candidate who won a House race on Friday by writing the words “stolen election” on an election certificate certifying the win.
LePage, in one of his final acts as Maine’s governor before his term ends, confirmed Democrat Rep.-elect Jared Golden’s election win on Friday, but not before scribbling a few words noting how he felt about the election:
I’ve signed off on the CD2 election result as it’s no longer in federal court. Ranked Choice Voting didn’t result in a true majority as promised-simply a plurality measured differently. It didn’t keep big money out of politics & didn’t result in a more civil election #mepolitics
Golden won the election to Maine’s 2nd congressional district after two-term incumbent Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME) conceded on December 24, ending a legal challenge contesting the election results.
The controversy in the congressional election stemmed from Maine’s “ranked choice” voting system, which allows voters to rank their candidates in the order they prefer.
But if neither candidate wins the majority of votes, the votes are tallied a second time and voters’ second and third-choice preferences are added to the voting total.
In this case, Poliquin initially led the race by 2,000 votes but was short of winning an outright majority. Golden then leaped ahead of Poliquin in the polls after election officials tallied voters’ second preferences from ballots listing two independent candidates as the first choice in the recount. more here
Have you ever heard of a more ignorant way that votes are tabulated?
So some people effectively voted twice? Am I reading that correctly?
Yet another way for the Dems to “find votes.”
We have lost our last bastion. The sanctity of the ballot box. Not just in Maine. But Virginia,Florida, etc.
As Joseph Stalin once said, and I paraphrase, it doesn’t matter who votes. It only matters who counts the votes.
If the masses knew the truth…..I dare guess the mayhem and destruction that would ensue.
…or the California system, where you can only vote for one democrat or the other democrat.
When there are voting irregularities, why can’t the authorities do something about it? No doubt they themselves are up to their ears in the crime.
I say Repubs lost the house in November because of cheating like this.
This sucks so bad.
So if the democRAT comes in first, he wins.
If the democRAT comes in second, he wins.
Heads I win, Tails you lose.
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
Even that won’t work in Maine!!
The voter turnout in Maine will fall dramatically. I hope that Jared Golden (the ‘so-called’ winner) looks at that piece of paper and is galled by it, daily.
My Governor.
My hero.
He also thumbed his nose at the spend and tax crowd here when he mentioned that he was moving to Florida for tax purposes and might be back to run again.