June 2018 Maine Question 1
On November 8, 2016, Maine voters passed Question 5, a citizen referendum to implement ranked-choice voting (RCV).On November 6, 2017, the petition forms were approved after Governor Paul LePage waited the full 10 days he is permitted by law to allow the delay to take effect without his signature.[4][5] On November 12, the effort's leaders said they had collected half the signatures needed and set a goal of finishing by December 15, though by law they had 90 days from when they started.Supporters asserted this means that the law voters passed in 2016 establishing RCV should be implemented in a manner consistent with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruling.Maine Attorney General Janet T. Mills urged the legislature to pass a new law, saying that the signers of the people's veto petition should not be thwarted by a technicality.[10] On April 4, Judge Michaela Murphy ruled that Dunlap should proceed with efforts to implement RCV for the June primaries while the issues with the law are heard by the courts.