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The 2024 Maine flag referendum (formally known as Question 5) was a legislatively referred state statute held on November 5, 2024, that sought to change the official state flag from the current version, first enacted in 1909, to a variation of the 1901 flag.
Maine Ballot Question 5: Live results on state flag. Can you register to vote on Election Day? To register to vote in Maine, voters must be Maine residents, U.S. citizens, and at least 16 years ...
Maine Question 5, formally An Act to Establish Ranked-Choice Voting, [2] is a citizen-initiated referendum question that qualified for the Maine November 8, 2016 statewide ballot. It was approved by a vote of 52% in favor, 48% opposed. [ 3 ]
Nov. 3—Our editorial board endorses a "yes" vote on each of the lower four questions on the Nov. 7 ballot. Questions 6, 7 and 8 will appeal to most voters' basic sense of order; Questions 7 and ...
Maine's ballot will feature competitions for U.S. Senate, U.S. Representative, state Senate and House, and five referendum questions. ... Question 5 proposes changing Maine’s state flag from the ...
In August 2023, citizens of Maine organized a ballot question committee, Maine Citizens to End SuperPACs, to gather enough signatures as required by the Maine Constitution to get the initiative on the ballots. [2] In October 2023, Citizens to End SuperPACs was registered as a political action committee to support the passage of the referendum. [3]
Maine was the first state to use instant runoff voting for all these elections. In 2016, Maine voters approved Maine Question 5 with 52% of the vote, approving instant runoff voting for primary and general elections for governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House and the state legislature, starting in 2018. [14]
A Maine judge on Wednesday told state election officials to wait for the US Supreme Court to rule on Donald Trump’s eligibility for the 2024 ballot.