Maine gears up for statewide ranked-choice tally with offline computers and live broadcasting

Maine's election officials outline how the governor races and the 2nd District Democratic primary will use statewide ranked-choice voting: ballots and memory sticks are collected from towns, loaded onto four offline hardened computers connected to a central server for verification, then the ranked-choice tally is run; the upload phase takes days, the tally itself is quick, and the process will be streamed live on YouTube from 9 to 5, with results expected before Juneteenth.