Election Day is tomorrow. Some results likely won't be known until next week.

Mainers likely won’t know the outcomes of some of the most-watched primaries until days or weeks after Election Day.

That’s because several crowded races — the Democratic and Republican gubernatorial primaries, the Democratic primary for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, and some legislative races — are expected to need ranked-choice runoffs to determine a winner.

Chief Deputy Secretary of State Kate McBrien, who will be overseeing the ranked choice tabulation process along with Deputy Secretary of State Julie Flynn, asked for Mainers’ patience.

“The process is long,” McBrien said, “but it’s long so that it can be thorough and it can be accurate and it can be very transparent.”



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