Supporters of Ranked Choice Voting in Massachusetts have announced honorary campaign co-chairmen that include two former governors, a former lieutenant governor, a former U.S. Treasury secretary, a sports team owner, the current president of the Boston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and a Harvard professor.
The ballot question, if approved by voters in November 2020, would change the way votes are counted in Massachusetts. Voters would be allowed not only a vote for one candidate, as now, but also lower selections that may come into play if no candidate gets a majority of votes.
Two days before the formal legislative period was set to expire, Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo introduced a measure that could extend it until the end of the year – which would also extend the period to pass left-of-center legislation.
Conservatives who thought they were in the clear for 2020 on left-wing measures such as the ROE Act abortion expansion bill, physician-assisted suicide, and tax increases may have more work to do.
