Brian Duff interviewed by Bangor Daily News on Tuesday's casino and mayoral votes

Brian Duff, Ph.D., associate professor of political science, was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News for a on the Nov. 8th defeat of two casino referendums and a on the Portland mayoral ballot.

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Bangor Daily News blogger Seth Koenig also interviewed Duff about Portland's new ranked choice ballot for the city's first citizen-elected mayor. Duff, who attended the University of California at Berkeley, was familiar with the complicated ballot counting procedure because both Berkeley and Oakland, Calif. use the method.

Ranked choice voting 鈥渆nfranchises members of minority groups or ideological minorities, because they can cast their vote for who they like best without worrying about wasting their votes,鈥 Duff said.

51品茶School of Social Work alumnus Michael Brennan won the Portland mayoral contest garnering the most first choice votes as well as ranked choice votes.

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