State and local officials say they feel confident Tuesday’s elections will go smoothly, despite a record number of primary voters having filed absentee ballots.
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Democrats take lead in voter registrations in Maine
The Maine Democratic Party has added more than 40,000 new voters to its ranks since 2016 and now have a more than 90,000-voter edge over their Republican rivals.
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President Trump tried to register to vote in Florida using an out-of-state address
The revisions complicate Trump’s own record as a voter at a time when the president has made unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud in mail-in balloting.
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Trump slams mail-in balloting promoted by his own campaign
The president claimed without any evidence that mail-in ballots lead to ‘total election fraud.’
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Maine secretary of state loses latest round in fight for records of Trump’s defunct voter fraud panel
Matt Dunlap argued that the Trump administration illegally withheld emails pertaining to membership of the controversial Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.
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In nation’s first federal ranked-choice voting race, Bruce Poliquin lost – and he’s not over it.
The two-term former Republican lawmaker from Maine’s 2nd District is trying to block the expansion of the new voting method to other states.
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Opponents of a dozen new laws aim to erase them with ‘people’s veto’ campaigns
With a short time to collect 63,067 signatures, special interest groups and individuals file more than a dozen requests to challenge newly signed laws.
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Maine House rejects giving towns ‘local control’ over guns in polling places
The legislation would have allowed towns to set their own policies regarding whether guns could be carried at public meetings or in polling locations.
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Facilities bond, elections, sidewalk funding on local ballots
RSU 26’s proposed $16.85 million facilities bond will top local ballots on June 11.
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How to make voting go more smoothly
It has now been two weeks since the midterm election, and in some states, ballots are still being counted. President Donald Trump says that is evidence of something seriously amiss. He has trafficked in wild and unsubstantiated theories, claiming that some ballots showed up “out of nowhere” while others were forged or went missing. He […]