A Republican lawmaker in Maine accused of choking his wife last month won re-election by a single vote after a Thursday recount.
A team of medical professionals is warning about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becoming head of the Department of Health and Human Services.
According to the recount results, Lanigan received 2,478 votes while Kidder received 2,477 votes. Election officials said 424 ballots were still deemed to be blank following the recount.
In November 1819, the former president said in a letter that he found the proposed state constitution was marked with wisdom at every point with one exception.
Recounts for a dozen close races continue this week, including the 2nd Congressional District race between incumbent U.S. Rep. Jared Golden and state Rep. Austin Theriault.
The chair of a Maine school board outlined Tuesday how her district can resist deportation efforts, referencing the outcome of the presidential election.
Two weeks after the Presidential Election, results are still up in the air across the state for many different positions.
Maine is one of a handful of states that use Ranked Choice Voting, where voters rank in order of preference who they would like to see win. In this case, when the bottom candidates were eliminated, their votes were reallocated to their second and third choices until a remaining candidate received over 50 percent.
PORTLAND, Maine — Democratic Rep. Jared Golden won reelection to Congress through Maine’s ranked choice system on Friday. It’s the third time in four elections in the hotly contested district that Golden won after votes were retabulated because first choices failed to produce a majority for any candidate.
Republican State Rep. Lucas Lanigan, who is facing domestic violence charges, will keep his seat in the Maine House, thanks to just one vote. The Office of the Secretary of State did a recount in the narrow race for House District 141,
Golden, the Democratic incumbent, was re-elected in Maine's ranked-choice system, which is similar to Alaska's current system.
The ranked choice vote tabulation went on for several days after neither candidate surpassed 50 percent of first-place votes on Election Day.