| Scott Paida | Portland Press Herald |
John Palmer currently lives in Raymond and is board chair for Rank the Vote. Chrissy Hart lives in South Portland and serves as executive director of the League of Women Voters of Maine.
Mainers waited a long time for election results.
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After another election cycle featuring ranked-choice voting, critics again pointed to delayed tabulations as evidence that the system is broken. Maybe they’re asking a fair question: Why should it take so long to know who won?
But there is also a more important question.
The better question is whether Mainers received something valuable in exchange for that wait. The answer from this year’s primaries is a resounding yes.