It is not clear yet what legal arguments might be made against ranked-choice voting if the law were challenged as a result of the outcome in Maine’s 2nd District congressional race. “I don’t think there’s any way they can win,” Rob Richie, president of Fair Vote, a Maryland group advocating election reform, said Thursday. He […]
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Bruce Poliquin claims 1st-round win; ballots arrive in Augusta for counting
As ballots in the close race for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District were being brought Thursday to a central collection spot in Augusta for counting, Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin issued a statement claiming a first-round victory. “We won the election-night total,” Brendan Conley, spokesman for the Poliquin campaign, said in a prepared statement. A first-round […]
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Maine starts collecting U.S. House ballots for ranked-choice voting count
PORTLAND (AP) — Couriers are rolling in Maine to collect ballot materials as the state determines the winner of a U.S. House seat via its new voting method for the first time. Mainers ranked their choices in Congressional ballots this week in case no candidate cleared 50 percent of the popular vote. The office of […]
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs in fall
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eighty-five-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractured three ribs in a fall in her office at the Supreme Court and is in the hospital, the court said Thursday. The court’s oldest justice fell Wednesday evening, the court said. She went to George Washington University Hospital in Washington early Thursday after experiencing discomfort overnight. […]
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Backers of failed Question 1 now turn toward paid sick leave
Even before Tuesday’s failed vote on Question 1, the group behind the home care referendum was working on its next effort, a measure that would ensure the availability of paid sick leave for all Maine workers. The latest potential referendum effort by the progressive Maine People’s Alliance would require all employers in the state to […]
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Lewiston matches statewide election results
LEWISTON — Ballots cast in Lewiston on Election Day largely reflected the statewide results still rolling in Wednesday, with the city choosing Janet Mills for governor and re-electing Angus King to the U.S. Senate. The city also favored Lewiston native Jared Golden for Congress in a race that is still too close to call, and […]
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Crowd turns out in Farmington to celebrate Governor-elect Janet Mills' win
FARMINGTON — The celebration started before Governor-elect Janet Mills arrived late Wednesday afternoon in her hometown. More than 100 people gathered inside and outside The Homestead Kitchen, Bar and Bakery on Broadway as they waited to congratulate Mills on becoming the first female to be elected governor in the state. The state’s attorney general will […]
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As numbers roll in, outcome of 2nd District race remains a puzzle
Nobody knows who won Maine’s hotly contested and sometimes bitter 2nd District congressional race. The two leading contenders — Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin and Democrat Jared Golden — are more or less tied. Shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday, the Secretary of State’s Office reported unofficial first-round results that showed Poliquin with a razor thin […]
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Jeff Sessions’ resignation puts future of Mueller probe into question
WASHINGTON — The future of the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign was thrown into uncertainty Wednesday after President Donald Trump ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a move that will result in a change in the probe’s supervision. Trump named as acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker, Sessions chief of staff, who […]
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Democrats now control both houses of Maine Legislature
Democrats gained control of the Maine Legislature on Tuesday, increasing their majority in the House of Representatives and recapturing a decisive majority in the Senate. Top Democrats said they would use their majority to take action on several key issues, including funding Medicaid expansion, keeping $160 million in school funding in place and addressing the […]