Despite recent controversies, Platner has a huge lead in a recent poll and is drawing big crowds, while the two-term governor Mills is counting on her experience and achievements.

Maine Democrat Graham Platner remains committed to his U.S. Senate campaign despite a growing list of controversies

Oyster farmer and Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s father has contributed approximately $60,000 to Democratic candidates and causes, according to federal records. Bronson Platner, the father of Graham Platner and a retired lawyer and assistant district attorney,

The next piece of the puzzle for the group hoping to get the U.S. Supreme Court to establish greater regulations on money in elections was laid on Wednesday. Two appeals were filed in the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston after a federal district court in July ruled that a 2024 Maine law overwhelmingly

State law bars 'cross-filing,' meaning a candidate can seek to appear on the ballot via party primary or independent petition — but not both.

To ID or not to ID, that is part of the question that Maine residents will be asked to vote on this November. Ballot Question 1 seeks to make a number of changes to the state’s voter ID requirements as well as its current absentee voting rules.

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is confident law enforcement will ultimately uncover why 250 official ballots were allegedly delivered to a Newburgh home in an Amazon package. She also said the incident underscored that Maine’s processes work and that the state’s elections are safe and secure.

The Maine secretary of state said authorities are investigating the 250 blank election ballots that were found in a resident's Amazon order last week.

Sarah Trites, who is approaching her 60th birthday, has made a point to vote in every federal election since she turned 18. She worries her streak will end soon. That’s … Continue reading “A Ballot Me

That’s why Question 1 on this November’s ballot worries me. On paper it sounds like routine “election integrity.” In practice, it piles new hurdles onto a system that already works, and that thousands of working Mainers, caregivers, students, deployed service members, seniors and people with disabilities rely on to participate.