A GOP-Backed Ballot Measure Could Radically Restrict Mail Voting in Maine
An anti-voting ballot measure backed by the GOP could significantly imperil access to voting in Maine — especially for voters who are elderly, poor, or live with disabilities.
Robert Conlin
Midcoast Maine resident Robert Conlin is a former newspaper and wire services reporter and editor, and the author of six books, including Life and Death at Abbey Gate: The Fall of Afghanistan and the Operation to Save Our Allies, and The Lewiston Shootings: An All-American Tragedy.
Mail Ballots Were Found in an Amazon Box in Maine. Some Suspect a Political Dirty Trick.
Republicans have seized on the discovery of a box of ballots to claim that Maine’s elections are dangerously insecure. But some in the state smell a rat.
Maine Republicans Are Asking Voters to Restrict Their Own Rights
In November, Mainers will be faced with a ballot initiative that would radically restrict voting rules in the state, and which is modeled after restrictive voting laws passed in Ohio, Georgia and elsewhere.
Maine Sec. of State to Trump DOJ: ‘Go Jump in the Gulf of Maine’
AUGUSTA, ME — Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) issued a defiant response to the wide-ranging request from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) — first reported by Democracy Docket — for the state’s sensitive voter information and voting systems data. “The Gulf of Maine is awfully cold, but maybe that’s what the DOJ […]
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