Mainers to Decide on Voter ID Laws This November
A question on whether Maine should require some form of valid identification in order to vote, or voter ID, will officially be on the ballot this year in Maine, as the Secretary of State has now certified the petitions collected and submitted as part of a grassroots effort to let Mainers decide if some form of credible verification of a voter’s identity should be required at the polls.
Led by Dinner Table Action Executive Director Alex Titcomb and Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn), the effort to get a voter ID question on the ballot was accomplished with minimal funding and hundreds of volunteers, organizers say.
The proposed measure, if enacted, would require voters to present a photographic ID or otherwise prove their identity in order to cast their ballots. Because the legislature has repeatedly failed to enact voter ID laws, this initiative allows the people to effectively demand such a law, as voters recently did with the automotive right to repair initiative.
Dinner Table Action submitted 4,410 petition forms were to the Secretary of State’s Office with 171,562 signatures, far exceeding the required 67,682 needed, as well as the 100,000 goal initially set by the Voter ID for ME campaign.
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Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D), who has previously been a critic of voter ID legislation, indicated in her official determination Wednesday that despite several thousand signatures being disqualified for various technical reasons, the petition still had more than enough support to be deemed valid, in part because of the large number of signatures the group had submitted.
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Comment by Penny Gray on February 21, 2025 at 8:40am
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Nobody can exist without a legal ID. Perhaps if this legislation fails to pass, new legislation should be introduced to ban required legal ID for jobs, alcohol, tobacco, firearms, welfare, bank loans, fishing license, credit cards, insurance...if we don't require it to do the most important thing of all, VOTE as legal Maine citizens, why should it be required for anything else? We can all just become one homogenized blob of trusting humanity.
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How in hell could any Secretary of State ever be against VOTER ID?
That ID card could be used for all sorts of identifying purposes
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on February 20, 2025 at 8:37pm
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Yet Walmart proofs and requires a driver's license , if under 40, to buy beer . What gives in Maine?
Do those long winters remove all common sense from the brains?
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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