A Republican lawmaker in Maine accused of choking his wife last month won re-election by a single vote after a Thursday recount.

In November 1819, the former president said in a letter that he found the proposed state constitution was marked with wisdom at every point with one exception.

The chair of a Maine school board outlined Tuesday how her district can resist deportation efforts, referencing the outcome of the presidential election.

According to the recount results, Lanigan received 2,478 votes while Kidder received 2,477 votes. Election officials said 424 ballots were still deemed to be blank following the recount.

Maine is one of a handful of states that use Ranked Choice Voting, where voters rank in order of preference who they would like to see win. In this case, when the bottom candidates were eliminated, their votes were reallocated to their second and third choices until a remaining candidate received over 50 percent.

Two weeks after the Presidential Election, results are still up in the air across the state for many different positions.

Democratic Rep. Jared Golden has won reelection to Congress. Friday's outcome marks the third time Golden has won thanks to the lesser choices of some voters under Maine’s ranked choice system.

PORTLAND (WGME) -- A Maine lawmaker is looking to change the rules when it comes to blank ballots to avoid a situation the ranked choice tabulation in Maine's Second District this year.

Representative Jared Golden, a three-term Democrat, defeated Austin Theriault, a former NASCAR driver, in one of a handful of districts held by Democrats that Donald J. Trump won in 2020.

Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Jared Golden has emerged victorious after the state conducted its ranked choice runoff for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District.

The ranked choice vote tabulation went on for several days after neither candidate surpassed 50 percent of first-place votes on Election Day.

Recounts for a dozen close races continue this week, including the 2nd Congressional District race between incumbent U.S. Rep. Jared Golden and state Rep. Austin Theriault.