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Members of the League of Women Voters of Maine held a 24-hour hunger strike to show support for the voting rights bills before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.

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The city of Westbrook has become the second municipality in Maine to adopt ranked-choice voting for local elections, after 63 percent of residents voted in support of using the system for the city's mayoral, school committee and city council elections.

PORTLAND — The League of Women Voters of Maine (LWVME) reported that through 8:00 p.m. on Election Day, polling across the state has successfully concluded. “Reports from our election observers across the state indicate that Maine voters experienced...

About 63% of voters were in favor of municipal ranked-choice voting, which will be used in mayoral, City Council and School Committee races.

The council issued a formal explanation to Maine's top court for why it required a proposal to create a local clean elections program to be reviewed first by a charter commission, rather than sending it to the ballot.

Proposals by Republicans and Democrats to redraw Maine's 2 congressional districts and 35 state Senate districts are criticized for lacking details to show voters how boundaries would shift.

Maine lawmakers pass suite of bills to expand voting access The Democratic-controlled Legislature passed the measures in a year when voting rights and access became political footballs in many states. Share During a year of pitched partisan battles elsewhere over voter rights and election processes, Maine lawmakers made it easier to register to vote and permanently adopted some election measures that had been implemented temporarily during the pandemic. Not all voting-related measures had stro...

Letter to the editor: Support disenfranchised D.C. residents in their quest for statehood Share I greatly appreciate Rep. Chellie Pingree’s support of D.C. statehood. Rep. Jared Golden’s, too. I wrote to both of Maine’s senators asking them to support S. 51, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act. Sen. Susan Collins responded stating that she had supported the District of Columbia House Voting Act. This legislation was put forward in 2009, and while it did grant D.C. one voting member of the ...