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

Others disagree. The League of Women Voters of Maine argued that Question 1 will only guarantee voter suppression. The nonpartisan coalition Save Maine Absentee Voting, of which the League of Women Voters, the ACLU of Maine and others are members, said that, if enacted, Question 1 would unfairly restrict Mainers’ access to the ballot box.

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.

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.

A conservative political action committee has been ordered by Maine's Secretary of State to cease and desist after sending out voter registration mailings.

Supporters, who were represented in Tuesday’s debate by Question 1 organizer Alex Titcomb and state Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, characterized the changes as minor and said they are necessary in order to implement the ID requirement in absentee voting.

One of the many wonderful things I love about Maine is its voter participation rates. We Mainers take participatory democracy seriously. In 2024, Maine’s voter turnout rate was third in the country, with 74.8% of the voting age population casting a ballot.

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.

Graham Platner apologized for old online posts, including some downplaying challenges troops face in reporting sexual assault in the military.

To require photo identification at the polls would be one thing. The ballot measure we're invited to support goes much, much further — with insufficient concern for who or what it would impede.

Longtime incumbent Republican Maine Senator Susan Collins​ has a new challenger - the state's Democratic Governor Janet Mills​.