Anna Kellar, Executive Director of Maine Citizens for Clean Elections Last Year.

Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap.

Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap confirmed today that the certification of the people’s ranked-choice is complete and does not have enough valid signatures to move forward to a vote in November.

The proponents of this veto effort submitted 9,482 petitions with 72,512 signatures to the Election Division of the Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions on Monday, June 15, 2020.

Elections Division staff have completed the process of certifying the petitions and found 61,334 valid signatures, while 11,178 were not valid.  Petitions for this effort were issued on February 23, 2020 and a minimum of 63,067 signatures from registered Maine voters is required.  Thus, the petition is not valid.

This people’s veto effort sought to repeal parts of Chaptered Law 539, which expands the ranked-choice method of voting to the presidential primary and general election in Maine.  Without enough signatures to further the vote effort, the law will now be in  effect for the November 3, 2020 presidential election according to a press release issued by Secretary Dunlap’s office.