Maine Election Officials Likely To Count Ranked-choice Ballots Tuesday

Workers in the Maine Secretary of State’s Office return Monday to the task of scanning and downloading ballots before a ranked-choice calculation on Tuesday. Staff photo by Kevin Miller AUGUSTA — Maine may finally learn Tuesday which Democrat will represent the party in this fall’s race for governor. Election officials continued processing voting results from across Maine on Monday and, by 5 p.m., had scanned or downloaded ballots from all but 30 or so of the 500 towns, cities and districts where ranked-choice voting took place June 12.