Governor Charlie Baker said he's "inclined to support" a ban on conversion therapy for minors in Massachusetts, which would make it illegal for a licensed therapist to try to help a minor change sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling.
The governor, a Republican, spoke to reporters Thursday afternoon after a press conference on road safety, according to State House News Service.
A bill that would bring ranked-choice voting to most elections in Vermont has only six co-sponsors in the 150-member House of Representatives.
Ranked-choice voting takes into account voters' second and third choices in cases where no one wins an outright majority of votes. A typical way of doing it is for the bottom candidate to be eliminated in the second round and his voters' second-place choices to be redistributed as if they were actual votes for another candidate. The next-from-the-bottom candidate is then eliminated in likewise fashion and so on until one of the remaining candidates has a majority.
