Maine Republicans want to repeal ranked choice voting, but their effort this year appears to have failed.
The party gathered more than 72,000 signatures for a ballot initiative that would ask voters in November to get rid of ranked choice voting for the presidential general election, but the Maine Secretary of State declared around 11,000 of those signatures invalid. That left Republicans with about 61,000 certified signatures, about 2,000 short of what they would have needed to get the measure on the ballot.
Will Massachusetts schools be open in the fall? That's a question we might not know the answer to until next month.
Jeffrey Riley, the commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education in Massachusetts, told officials late last week that they should not be making announcements of what their plans are for their respective school districts yet.
