The Legislature’s accountability office released the first part of its report on Maine’s program Monday.
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Biden transition team didn’t wait for verdict to get busy
Longtime Biden aide Ted Kaufman had been leading efforts to ensure the former vice president can begin building out a government in anticipation of a victory.
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Maine CDC reports 138 new coronavirus cases, two more deaths
Meanwhile, the University of Maine identifies a cluster of COVID-19 cases involving 10 individuals in facilities management on the Orono campus.
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Springsteen wrestles with death
You get only so many star-filled nights and rainy midsummer days. Only so much baby laughter. Only so many carnivals. Only so much music.
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The ‘two Maines’ disagreed again, but Trump’s support declined in both
The biggest split between Maine’s congressional districts was in the U.S. Senate race.
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Trump falsely claims victory, seeks to stop ‘all voting’ — but only counting remains
President Trump says he’ll take the presidential election to the Supreme Court, but it’s unclear what he means in a country in which vote tabulations routinely continue beyond Election Day, and states largely set the rules for when the count has to end.
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Coronavirus, economy topped list of Mainers’ concerns heading into elections
With COVID-19 surging in Maine, the majority of local participants in The Associated Press’s national survey said the virus was ‘not at all under control’ in the U.S. and strongly disapproved of President Trump’s handling of the pandemic.
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State’s high court upholds murder conviction of man who killed deputy
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld the convictions and sentences for John D. Williams, who shot and killed Somerset County Deputy Sheriff Cpl. Eugene Cole, and of Kandee Collind, who killed her ex-husband in front of their two children.
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The million-dollar question on the election’s eve: Who is left to vote?
Three states have already exceeded their turnout from 2016 just via absentee and mail-in votes.
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Trump, Biden cede stage to voters for Election Day verdict
Americans are making their choice between President Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, selecting a leader to steer a nation battered by a surging pandemic that has killed more than 231,000 people and cost millions their jobs.