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Article about #Battle4RCV in Maine Today
Writer Dennis Perkins just published an article about our film in Maine Today. Check it out! ‘The Battle for Ranked Choice Voting’ follows Mainers in a pioneering political effort
This is a beautiful and compelling story about what the People can do. Against all odds, the people in Maine force the politicians to listen. If only “as Maine goes, so goes the Nation”! —Lawrence Lessig
From Maine to New Mexico, citizens across America are clamoring for free and fair elections through Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). Our story unfolds as voters organizing to enact the reform face fierce pushback from establishment politicians. The film looks at the historical rise, fall, and rebirth of RCV in the United States and abroad, and embed viewers in the front line of the battle raging over voters’ rights.
Through a ballot measure in November 2016, the citizens of Maine voted to become the first state in the nation to use Ranked Choice Voting statewide for federal and state elections. One year later, the legislature and governor moved to kill the bill, claiming it was unconstitutional. However, the people have final say through a process called the People’s Veto. Now they have 90 days to collect over sixty thousand signatures in the depth of the Maine winter. Will they succeed?
Enlivened with colorful hand-drawn animation, The Battle for Ranked Choice Voting follows Maine’s story, drops in on cities like Memphis, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Santa Fe that have adopted Ranked Choice Voting, and takes viewers on a whirlwind tour of non-plurality systems dominant throughout the world. Follow this citizen uprising to restore our failing democracy!
Shondra was main editor of Errol Morris' Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, and films by filmmakers Jocelyn Glatzer and Tom Curran.
Writer Dennis Perkins just published an article about our film in Maine Today. Check it out! ‘The Battle for Ranked Choice Voting’ follows Mainers in a pioneering political effort
In November 2018, Maine was first in the nation to use Ranked Choice Voting statewide in what turned out to be an incredibly transparent election. The Secretary of State live-streamed the candidate-elimination process, then posted Read more…
Our crowdfunding campaign has ended, but you can still make a tax-deductible donation through The Center for Independent Documentary. Many thanks to our generous supporters!!! Election Reformers Network, The Minneapolis Foundation, Eric Ashman, George Read more…