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128th MAINE LEGISLATURE |
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LD 1646 |
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LR 2379(06) |
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An Act To
Implement Ranked-choice Voting in 2021 |
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Fiscal Note for
Bill as Engrossed with:
C "B" (H-568) |
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Committee: Veterans and Legal Affairs |
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| Fiscal Note |
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Unbudgeted savings on delay or repeal - General Fund
Unbudgeted savings on delay or repeal - Highway Fund |
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| Fiscal Detail
and Notes |
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Costs related to
ranked-choice voting were estimated in the fiscal note for LD 1557 of the
127th Legislature, which was introduced as Initiated Bill 2 in response to a
successful citizen initiated petition drive. As LD 1557 was indefinitely
postponed, there was no opportunity to put funding for the Secretary of State
(SOS) or the Department of Public Safety (DPS) into that bill. Subsequent
approval by the voters in November of 2016 meant any funding would have to
wait for implementing legislation. Delaying implementation of ranked-choice
voting until elections held after December 1, 2021 will eliminate any funding
that would have been required by the SOS and the DPS in the current biennium.
As no funding has ever been budgeted, no savings will be booked on delay. |
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Additional costs
to the Department of Secretary of State associated with conducting an
evaluation and recommending legislation for the administration of
ranked-choice voting can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources. Any
appropriations and allocations associated with implementing ranked-choice
voting would need to be included within that subsequent legislation. If the
Constitution of Maine is not amended, the laws governing ranked-choice voting
are repealed and no funding will be required. |
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