Four Murray Plumb & Murray Attorneys Named to Super Lawyers
Murray Plumb & Murray announced the selection of four of its attorneys to the 2016 Super Lawyers list – John C. Bannon, Peter
Property Owners Score Legal Victory in Scarborough Property Tax Abatement Case
Murray, Plumb & Murray attorney John B. Shumadine, Esq. represents 34 residents of Scarborough, Maine, in a case challenging the town’s practice
Ranked Choice Voting and What It Means
This November, Mainers will have the opportunity to vote whether to adopt what is known as “ranked choice voting.”
Question 5 on the ballot reads as follows:
“Do you want to allow voters to rank their choices of candidates in elections for U.S. Senate, Congress, Governor, State Senate, and State Representative, and to have ballots counted at the state level in multiple rounds in which last-place candidates are eliminated until a candidate wins by majority?”
If adopted by Maine voters, this new law would, in theory, prevent a situation in which a candidate wins a state election with less than a majority of the vote. For example,