"After winning two elections, LePage said voting system in Maine is illegitimate"

[GreenPartyVoter]

Source: Bangordailynews.com

Good morning from Augusta, where Gov. Paul LePage has joined Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in calling elections in Maine and the United States illegitimate.

During his weekly Tuesday morning phone chat on WVOM radio, LePage said that as long as Maine doesn’t require voters to provide identification, the system cannot be trusted.

“I am not confident that we are going to have a clean election in Maine,” said LePage in response to a question from the hosts, who introduced it by noting that LePage has won two statewide elections under the same system he now questions. “The Democratic Party insists on not having IDs. Will people from the cemetery be voting? Yes, all around the country. The media and the Democratic Party want everyone to vote, whether they’re citizens or not.”

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Read more: http://stateandcapitol.bangordailynews.com/2016/10/18/after-winning-two-elections-lepage-said-voting-system-in-maine-is-illegitimate/

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Dear God, I hate my Governor!

[TeamPooka]

1. People of Maine, throw off your illegitimate ruler! March on your Capital! Throw the bum out.

[Ken Burch]

30. I'm now picturing Che with a Maine accent saying "You Must Be Of Use"...

"Arise, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England!".

...In beret and lobsterman's gear.

[Foggyhill]

2. Sure is, racist fuckwizz's should not be candidates

[onehandle]

3. Nutbag. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. He may have a point.

After all, he did win twice. Sure sound illegitimate to mois.

LePig threatened to quit several times, didn't he? And he chickened out each time, knowing that he would be hard pressed to get a job in the real whirled?

[Laser102]

25. You beat me to it. Maybe he didn't really win? They should check.

[HAB911]

5. Republicans ALWAYS want it BOTH ways

idiots

[ChairmanAgnostic]

26. Soooo, the GOP is Bi?

[awoke_in_2003]

32. I wish

maybe if their chances of getting laid doubled they'd chill the hell out.

[Snotcicles]

6. If the voters in Maine are smart they will vote for proposal 5 on this ballot. It's for RCV.

Ranked-choice voting in all its elections.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. You know I will be voting for it. Hubby too!

[Snotcicles]

11. You guys are so lucky. I wish we were voting on it here in Michigan. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Hopefully we will all get something better than plurality voting someday!

[mainer]

12. absolutely voting for it! n/t

[Snotcicles]

14. I have racked my brain to try and figure out why anybody would not want this option.

Still don't have an answer.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Arguments against includei

It's too hard! It takes too long to count! It costs too much!

More legitimately, it does still have flaws. The strategic "voting against the worst candidate" and vote splitting are still potentially a problem.

[DrToast]

8. How did this guy win?

I always considered Maine fairly sane.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. The Left split the vote both times, but we are trying to get ranked choice voting passed

to help with this problem.

[SwankyXomb]

18. Wouldn't an instant runoff system make more sense?

If no one gets 50%+1, the top 2 go at it again in a few weeks. Probably would have saved Mainers a lot of grief over the last 8 years.

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. Same thing in this case. :^)

[jmowreader]

28. Louisiana has something similar and it's a disaster

What works really well is the Washington system: only the top two candidates, regardless of party, in the primary election go on to the general. This has put two Republicans on the general election ballot several times, but it beats the hell out of letting spoiler candidates put unmitigated disasters like Paul Le Page in office.

[Historic NY]

10. Then he's not legit.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

31. They way this works is

LePage uses his governorship as a bully pulpit to say whatever stupid shit he wants. He doesn't have to provide any details. It is just shit from his head supported by anecdotal evidence or nothing at all. He says stupid shit just about every day. It's how he reminds us all that he is still alive and still an asshole.

[PaulRevere08]

16. Well that would explain things up in Maine.

[tenderfoot]

17. He's the perfect poster boy for the perils of third party voting.

eom

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. In a plurality election, hence the push for election reform!

[Angry Dragon]

22. IDIOT

[Rex]

23. Er...WTF?

[downeastdaniel]

24. I echo your hate for LePage, TWICE, argh.

[Gormy Cuss]

27. He's an effin' idjit.

I'll never understand why anyone voted for him the second time.

Do I still have time to register all my dead formerly Democratic relatives in Calvary cemetery in South Portland? They were mostly those immigrants who came to America to steal our jobs.

[jmowreader]

29. Thank Eliot Cutler for that disaster