Charlie Baker Declines Comment on Ranked Choice Voting

Charlie Baker Declines Comment on Ranked Choice Voting

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker declined to state a position on ranked choice voting Wednesday.

A ballot question asking voters if they want to replace the current first-past-the-post system of counting votes with a system that would count the lower choices of some voters in certain elections is set to go before Massachusetts voters in the general election in November.

Rayla Campbell’s Seventh Congressional District Write-In Campaign Comes Up Short
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Rayla Campbell’s Seventh Congressional District Write-In Campaign Comes Up Short

Tom Joyce

Rayla Campbell's virtually unprecedented bid to get 2,000 write-in votes to get on the November general election ballot against U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester) came up short.

The Randolph Republican got 1,202 votes in the Republican primary for the Seventh Congressional District, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth's office told New Boston Post on Wednesday — almost 800 short.

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