Kathy Montejo, City Clerk of Lewiston, Maine, sits down with Karen Brinson Bell to discuss how local election administrators prepared for Maine's statewide RCV election in June.
Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Trvj7aeDl3e18X29LHGPNDoRLJSimlAy/view?usp=sharing
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Lewiston's video on How to Mark a Ballot Using RCV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HPD37tMbgU
- Lewiston's How RCV Works flyer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19WgWHCbZ42eXAjECJ1CxlAKwKoAdsHo4/view?usp=sharing
- SOS Dunlap's one-hour RCV information session at Lewiston Library: http://lplonline.org/events/ranked-choice-voting-outreach/
Informational kiosk in both City Hall and Lewiston Library:
- Turner Publishing article - Absentee ballots, RCV information available at Lewiston City Hall: http://www.turnerpublishing.net/news/2018/05/22/lewiston-maine-city-hall-sets-up-information-table-on-ranked-choice-voting/
- Sun Journal article (paywall) - Lewiston spreading the word on RCV: http://www.sunjournal.com/lewiston-spreading-the-word-on-ranked-choice-voting/
Other outreach efforts:
- May 8 – School Budget Election – Kathy was at the polls all day and spoke with hundreds of voters. There were posters, flyers, sample ballots, etc., available.
- May 15 – presentation during City Council meeting showing how a ballot is marked under RCV – televised live on cable and YouTube, rebroadcasts on cable
- June 4 at 1 pm - Presentation at Lewiston Senior Citizen’s Center meeting
- Local community access/cable TV station running the SOS's 5-minute RCV video as well as the one-hour SOS presentation at the Lewiston Library