The United States is made up of 11 distinct regions, and their boundaries showed up again at the polls this month.
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Matt Dunlap accuses White House of falsely implying widespread voter fraud
Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap on Friday accused the White House and leaders of a presidential commission of making false statements about potential voter fraud and of “troubling bias” as they led the now-disbanded election commission. In a scathing letter to Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Dunlap said […]
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Federal voter fraud commission documents released
Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap was notified Wednesday that he will receive, within 24 hours, documents related to a presidential commission on voting integrity he served on last year. Dunlap, one of 11 members appointed by the Trump administration, sued the commission last year after he was excluded from information, including state voting data. A federal judge […]
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Facebook’s rules for accessing user data lured more than just Cambridge Analytica
Facebook last week suspended the Trump campaign’s data consultant, Cambridge Analytica, for scraping the data of potentially millions of users without their consent. But thousands of other developers, including the makers of games such as FarmVille and the dating app Tinder, as well as political consultants from President Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign, also siphoned […]
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Sen. Angus King: Russian hackers got more on Hillary Clinton than released
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, left, and Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., right, listen as Clint Watts, center, a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute Program on National Security, testifies Thursday, March 30, 2017, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Russian intelligence activities. Lawmakers heading the Senate Intelligence Committee focused […]
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Susan Collins says Senate probe of Russian influence will be thorough
A Senate panel’s secret investigation into charges of Russian interference in last year’s presidential election is already making progress, said U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. Collins said Tuesday the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence probe will be thorough and non-partisan. “We are deep into that investigation,” Collins said while speaking to a group from Mainers […]
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Hillary Clinton wins popular vote by nearly 2.9 million
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton received nearly 2.9 million more votes than President-elect Donald Trump, giving her the largest popular vote margin of any losing presidential candidate. Certified results in all 50 states and the District of Columbia show Clinton winning nearly 65,844,610 million votes — 48 percent — to Trump’s 62,979,636 million votes — 46 […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Bernie Sanders gets electoral vote in Hawaii thanks to Maine elector
Presidential elector David Bright got shut down in Maine when he tried to vote for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, but his effort may have helped the Vermont progressive snag an electoral vote in Hawaii. David Mulinix, an elector in the Aloha State who wore a lei made of green jade flowers, apparently watched Maine’s Electoral […]
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Gov. Paul LePage ’embarrassed’ by bid to vote for Bernie Sanders
LePage said he felt “very, very embarrassed” Monday watching Bright in the House chambers in Augusta as the organic farmer from Dixmont sought to dodge a state law requiring that he cast his ballot for Democrat Hillary Clinton, who won the statewide vote last month. Bright, one of the state’s four electors, said he thought […]
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Sanders vote tossed out of Maine’s Electoral College
AUGUSTA — Maine’s Electoral College snubbed U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday. Even though one of the state’s four electors, David Bright, cast a ballot for Sanders, it didn’t count. Ruled out of order because Bright had a legal obligation to back Hillary Clinton, the electors voted a second time for president and Sanders was […]