Massachusetts Governor:  Why Is Maine Still Dissing Us Over Coronavirus?

Massachusetts Governor:  Why Is Maine Still Dissing Us Over Coronavirus?

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker said he can't understand why Maine continues to include Massachusetts on its list of travel-restriction states because of coronavirus.

"We have the second lowest positive test rate in the country, O.K.? And we are in the top five or six or seven – depending upon which one of these things you look at – in terms of our daily cases per capita. I think that would make us a perfectly appropriate candidate to get off the no-fly zone in Maine. But for whatever reason, it's not going to happen," Baker said during a coronavirus press conference in Boston on Wednesday, September 9.

Charlie Baker Declines Comment on Ranked Choice Voting
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Charlie Baker Declines Comment on Ranked Choice Voting

Matthew McDonald

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.

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