Maine's Statewide RCV Election at the Local Level - a podcast by Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center

from 2018-07-27T16:13:16

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Kathy Montejo, City Clerk of Lewiston, Maine, sits down with Karen Brinson Bell to discuss the ins and outs of how local election administrators prepared for Maine's statewide RCV election in June. Resources mentioned in this episode include:

Lewiston's Video on How to Mark a Ballot Using RCV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HPD37tMbgU

Lewiston How RCV Works Flyer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19WgWHCbZ42eXAjECJ1CxlAKwKoAdsHo4/view?usp=sharing

Secretary of State Dunlap One-Hour Presentation at Lewiston Library: http://lplonline.org/events/ranked-choice-voting-outreach/

Other outreach efforts:

May 8 – School Budget Election – I was at the polls all day and spoke with hundreds of voters, we had posters, flyers, sample ballots, etc. – see attached for flyers

May 15 – presentation during City Council meeting showing how a ballot is marked under RCV – televised live on cable and youtube, rebroadcasts on cable

Presentation at Lewiston Senior Citizen’s Center meeting – June 4, 1pm

Local community access/cable TV station – running the SOS 5 minute RCV video as well as the one hour SOS presentation done at the Lewiston Library

Informational kiosk in both City Hall and Public Library - http://www.sunjournal.com/lewiston-spreading-the-word-on-ranked-choice-voting/
http://www.turnerpublishing.net/news/2018/05/22/lewiston-maine-city-hall-sets-up-information-table-on-ranked-choice-voting/

Episode Transcript: https://drive.google.com/open?id=16tSTAutr3YxDEjU3kx_gnu7wbFbpSbfm

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