Maine Dems Unanimously Reject Voter ID
The bill, proposed by Rep. Heidi Sampson (R-Alfred), would have outlawed ballot harvesting, required voters to present a valid photo ID, and increased transparency by allowing representatives from both parties to observe all ballot handling activities.
Democratic leaders, who wield a majority on the Legislative Council, unanimously opposed the bill.
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The bill would have made ballot harvesting, the practice of a third party transporting absentee ballots from numerous voters, a class C crime.
A disabled voter would still be able to have a relative or friend deliver an absentee ballot, but only after written authorization, and no one person would be permitted to deliver more than three absentee ballots.
The bill also would have created a class C crime for election officials who try to prevent designated representatives from both parties from observing election procedures and ballot handling.
The bill would have increased security surrounding absentee ballots, by requiring someone to request a ballot 14 days before the election, requiring a reason for voting absentee, such as a disability or an inability to reach the polling location, and would have discarded any absentee ballots received after the close of in-person voting.
Sampson’s bill would also have implemented the basic security measure of requiring photo ID’s, which Maine currently does not require.
As of 2024, eight states require valid photo ID in order to vote in U.S. elections, including Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Virginia.
Additionally, ten states have photo ID requirements for voting but offer alternative methods for verifying a voters identity. Those states include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Texas.
Maine is one of 15 states that requires no verification whatsoever of a voter’s identity.
The final vote on Sampson’s was split along party lines, with a result of 4-6.
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on February 24, 2024 at 5:41pm
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Comment by Richard McDonald/Saving Maine on February 24, 2024 at 5:21pm
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Dan: Spot on. The Republican's have no leadership. They have no bench of candidates or rising stars and there's no one to blame but the party leadership. I've attended Rebublican Committee meetings in our previous venue (Kennebunk/York County) and was stunned at what they don't know. Many were well meaning, but stuck in the old Bush paradigm that has lead us to loss after loss. You talk about how the Democrats are ruining this country and they look like deer in the headlights. I was considered too radical or disruptive with my comments. I stopped going. They get nothing done. I thought about running for a committee position, but we sold our home and moveed to Owls Head. Not any better here from wwhat i hear. Sticking to figting wind with Saving Maine. We got it done in the Moosehead region.
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Comment by Dan McKay on February 24, 2024 at 4:17pm
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Richard,
The Republicans blame the voters because the Democrats in the legislature and executive branches of Maine government outnumber them. Well, all I have seen of the Republicans is a spineless bunch of crybabies. I don't see why anyone should vote for them. We need a signal that indicates they see the democrats as an untreatable disease. The leverage of common sense backed up by courage goes a long way for Maine people, but all you hear from your Republican members of the legislature is "you just have to run for the job, yourself" Gutless bunch of worthless representation.
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The Republicans in Maine suffer from Stockholm Syndrome - they are subservient to their captors, aka the Democrats. Let's face it, we are a one party state run by a dictatorship - a take it or leave government working along side the regime in DC. Common sense is not allowed, the public's voice doe not matter unless you are one of the tribe, an illegal or a corporation poised to extract millions and leave us with the bill.
Maine is being slowly run into the ground just slightly behind NY, MA, PA, DC, GA, CA, and on and on. It won't be long before it's unreconizable. You have to experience it in person. Taking a walk down Congress St or visiting a park in downtown Lewiston is all it takes. And that's just the tip of the iceberg that's dead ahead.
If Nancy and I were younger, we'd be out of here in a heartbeat. But our roots are deep and we can't give up the promise of Edmund Burke's philosophical thesis of the permanence of change.
An awakening seems to be bubbling around the rickety foundation of the legions of doom turning our Republic into a thrid world hellhole. The bubbling needs to rise to a full boil. We need to take thier country and our state back brick by brick, school by school, town by town, electioin by election. It has to start in earnest now and never stop until we have driven the vermin who have disfigured and ransacked our state and our nation.
It is now or never time.
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Heidi Sampson made an excellent presentation for common sense.
The Democrats are Soros people, have very little backing from Real Maine Citizens
On the other hand, the Republicans on this committee sat silently, sheepishly silent
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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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"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."
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