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.

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.

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.

Susan Collins remains forever unconcerned. One of the Republicans’ most reliable meme generators isn’t fretting over Janet Mills’s entry into the race for Maine’s Senate seat alongside oyster farmer G

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.

Online and mail-in voter registration for Maine’s Nov. 4 referendum election closes Tuesday at 5 p.m. MAINE, USA — The deadline to register to vote online or by mail ahead of Maine’s Nov. 4, 2025, Referendum Election ends today at 5 p.m., according to the Secretary of State’s Office.

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