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Maine’s voter ID effort includes limits on ballot drop boxes
Bangor Daily News ^ | 1/10/2025 | Billy Kobin

Posted on 01/10/2025 11:37:45 AM PST by sturmde

The conservative proponents of a November referendum on requiring photo identification to vote in Maine tucked in absentee voting limits that would hit two of the state’s liberal bastions hardest.

The “Voter ID for ME” initiative would bar municipalities from having more than one absentee ballot drop box, a provision that would only affect Portland and Orono, the home of the University of Maine. The initiative would require a “bipartisan team of election officials” — rather than the local clerk or their designees — to retrieve ballots from the boxes...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: electionintegrity; maine; voterid
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1 posted on 01/10/2025 11:37:45 AM PST by sturmde
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To: sturmde

Gov’t Photo ID for voting and also ID to apply for absentee ballots is a good place to start. Also, courts have been upholding strict limits on drop boxes. Limit the number of drop boxes, restrict them to early voting locations with the same hours as the voting locations.


2 posted on 01/10/2025 12:04:29 PM PST by Roadrunner383
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To: sturmde

Voter ID is useless with drop boxes. They act like the boxes make you show your drivers license to the box before it lets you drop a bogus ballot inside.


3 posted on 01/10/2025 12:07:02 PM PST by pghbjugop
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To: sturmde

It’s a start, but Maine really needs to get rid of that RCV up there.....it sucks.
All it basically does is guarantee a RAT wins almost every time.


4 posted on 01/10/2025 12:12:12 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: sturmde

All drop boxes should be banned ... oh wait ... to be fair do they give the Democrats chances to cheat and steal elections and get their DEI puppets into office.


5 posted on 01/10/2025 12:17:57 PM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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Drop boxes should be ILLEGAL. Push ‘em over.


6 posted on 01/10/2025 12:49:55 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: antidemoncrat

The only “ballot drop boxes” should be the ones in the polling places where voters deposit their ballots, after showing up to vote and presenting proper identification.


7 posted on 01/10/2025 12:54:09 PM PST by motor_racer ("We're gonna punish our enemies and reward our friends" - Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: sturmde

ELIMINATE MAIL IN VOTING===NO DROP BOXES AT ALL NEEDED.


8 posted on 01/10/2025 1:08:31 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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