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by Mark Sumner
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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Democratic Gov. Janet Mills let a bill become law without her signature that adds Maine's four Electoral College votes to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, under which member states ...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 01:06 PM PDT
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Maine's Democratic-run legislature has advanced a bill that would have the state join an alliance to elect the president according to the national popular vote. Each chamber must hold a second vote for procedural reasons, but both are expected to pass...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Wed Mar 13, 2024 at 10:48 AM PDT
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Cara Buckley at The New York Times reports on a thing: Why Mainers Are Falling Hard for Heat Pumps The percentage of households burning home heating oil is the highest in the country. Yet no other state is adopting climate-friendly heat pumps as fast....
by xaxnar
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on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 06:29 PM PST
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by Emma Davis, Maine Morning Star
Absentee voting is underway for the March 5 presidential primary elections in Maine.
The Democratic and Republican parties are holding primaries, and there is ...
by Maine Morning Star
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on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 11:59 AM PST
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Despite the risk of TOO MUCH INFORMATION, I’ve put together this TL;DR compendium of writings addressing the constitutional challenge now facing the country. I realize it is a lot to go through, but when the regular media treats Trump vs Biden as “the...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 10:43 AM PST
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There's no better soft-ball question for a candidate than "What's your closing argument to voters?" It's an electoral classic that can be rather illuminating, particularly when candidates flub their ...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 06:00 AM PST
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Maine's secretary of state is appealing a judge's ruling that put on hold her decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a similar case in Colorado. Shenna Bellows concluded last month that...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 09:22 AM PST
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� Whether by hook or by crook, a majority of Americans—56%—are willing to see Donald Trump kicked off some or all state ballots, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday. Two state-...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 04:08 PM PST
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Republicans are all about states controlling their elections. That’s how they justify purging eligible Democratic voters from the rolls in Georgia or removing polling stations from Black ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 10:30 AM PST
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This week, Democrats in Maine's legislature renewed their effort to elect the president according to the national popular vote when they held a hearing on a bill that would have the state join a ...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Wed Jan 10, 2024 at 09:18 AM PST
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By Grace Panetta Originally published by The 19th 2024 began with a wave of threats and swatting incidents directed at high-profile public officials — many of them women — and government ...
by The19th
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Republicans who want to unseat Maine's secretary of state for barring former President � Donald Trump � from the primary ballot will face long odds impeaching a stalwart and influential Democrat ...
by Associated Press
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on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 04:15 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by Chitown Kev
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on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 08:59 PM PST
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Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday appealed a ruling by Maine’s Democratic secretary of state barring him from the ballot over his role in the � Jan. 6, 2021, attack � on the U.S. Capitol. ...
by Associated Press
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14th Amendment solutions will likely not prevail. It’s a chaos election after all. There are two key legal issues to consider. One is whether Mr Trump's actions in the build-up to the storming of the US Capitol amount to insurrection. The other is...
by annieli
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on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 11:31 AM PST
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This week the state Maine joined Colorado in finding that the Constitution's 14th Amendment prohibits Donald Trump from running for president. Section Three of the Amendment states that "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or...
by News Corpse
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on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 01:53 PM PST
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There’s a famous scene in “Casablanca” where Captain Renault, acting on orders from the Nazis, closes Rick’s Cafe. “I’m shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here,” ...
by Charles Jay
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A cartoon by Jeff Danziger.
by Jeff Danziger
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on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 09:49 AM PST
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We witnessed in 2021 the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter, and now a 34 page decision by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows protects Mainers from insurrectionist Trump. Intersection of Unenumerated...
by annieli
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