Tired of ranked-choice voting (RCV) rigging their state’s elections, Maine Republicans have introduced legislation to return the state to a traditional electoral system.

LD 1038, also known as “An Act to Reinstate Plurality Voting by Repealing the Ranked-choice Voting Laws,” stipulates that “the person who receives a plurality of the votes cast for election to any office, as long as there is at least one vote cast for that office, is elected to that office.” The bill also includes the same provisions for primary elections.

“There are increasing complaints from constituents that the ranked-choice experiment has failed to deliver on its promises,” said bill sponsor and GOP Rep. Ed Polewarczyk. “It produces false majorities, frequently exhausts thousands of ballots cast on Election Day, is confusing, and disenfranchises voters who are already unlikely to vote. It is time to return to a simpler, easy-to-understand system where the candidate with the most votes wins.”