RCV-enabled machines can still be used screw with a vote. To send certain ballots to adjudication for example.
Do you happen to know anything about adjudication rates in ME since RCV-enabled machines have been in use...?
I have no idea about the adjudication rates. But it took a number of weeks in 2018 to determine the outcome of the Second District Congressional race. Were there shenanigans? I don’t know.
President Trump won Maine’s Second District in spite of RCV in 2020....Jared Golden won without RCV kicking in during the 2020 race....Chellie Pingree won the First District in 2018 and 2020 without RCV kicking in....Angus King won re-election to his senate seat in 2018....Susan Collins won in 2020.
A court ruled that RCV only applies to federal elections in Maine, not state elections.
The Maine Constitution mentions a plurality of votes, whereas the Federal Constitution does not. That was the judge’s reasoning.
As far as I know, the only candidate to lose a fall election because of RCV was incumbent Second District Congressman Bruce Poliquin in 2018.
Poliquin is going to run again in 2022.