{"id":18774,"date":"2018-12-26T13:09:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T19:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18774"},"modified":"2019-02-02T19:27:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T01:27:53","slug":"its-a-trifle-disingenuous-ctd-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/26\/its-a-trifle-disingenuous-ctd-4\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s A Trifle Disingenuous, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

With regard to the Maine contest <\/a>for the seat of\u00a0incumbent Rep. Bruce Pouliquin (R-ME), the game – for now – is over<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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With two courts ruling against him, the Republican will no longer dispute Jared Golden\u2019s election, but maintains that Maine\u2019s voter-approved system is unconstitutional and illegal.<\/p>\r\n

Rep. Bruce Poliquin on Monday dropped his legal challenge to the ranked-choice election in Maine\u2019s 2nd Congressional District in which he lost his seat in the U.S. House.<\/p>\r\n

In a statement he released on Twitter on Christmas Eve, the two-term Republican said he continues to believe ranked-choice voting is unconstitutional, but \u201cit\u2019s in the best interests of my constituents and all Maine citizens to close this confusing and unfair chapter of voting history.\u201d<\/p>\r\nPress-Herald<\/cite><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The real point, beyond the termination of Rep. Pouliquin’s attempt to retain his Congressional seat, is that this is not a\u00a0final determination in\u00a0the battle over ranked-choice voting (RCV<\/strong>). Indeed, Pouliquin continues to reiterate his claim that RCV <\/strong>is confusing, unfair, and illegal. To the first two points, he presents no evidence but his own personal and irrelevant testimony, and two federal courts have disagreed with his third point.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This may be just the first step in a long campaign by the GOP <\/em><\/strong>against RCV<\/strong>, since “first past the pole” voting is far more to their advantage, while RCV <\/strong>favors the more fragmented nature of liberal politics. I expect more court challenges to RCV <\/strong>in the future, at least at the Federal level, and I also continue to believe this may be one of the more important court campaigns of the future.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With regard to the Maine contest for the seat of\u00a0incumbent Rep. Bruce Pouliquin (R-ME), the game – for now – is over: With two courts ruling against him, the Republican will no longer dispute Jared Golden\u2019s election, but maintains that Maine\u2019s voter-approved system is unconstitutional and illegal. Rep. Bruce Poliquin \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19128,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18774\/revisions\/19128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}