So many of us are disheartened by turmoil in the world. We feel some profound loss in civility, community, economic fairness, human rights and institutional order. We seek ways to engage, fight back and regain control of our democracy. We attend marches, protests, forums and discussion groups with others who join us in communal mourning for the world we thought we knew. Amid this uncertainty, I can’t tell you the number of people who point to our ranked-choice voting law as their precious window of hope and inspiration in an otherwise troubling world. Ranked-choice voting was enacted following the most respectful, deliberative, positive and pure exercise of American democracy I’ve seen in my 16 years in Maine politics. This model democratic process began with years of study by a thoughtful and nonpartisan working group, chaired by the League of Women Voters of Maine.