[UPDATE:Matthew Dunlap urges Paul LePage to stop exaggerating about ranked-choice voting] As Mainers headed to the polls for primary voting Tuesday morning, Gov. Paul LePage announced he may not certify the results. Tuesday is the first time in Maine when voters statewide will use a ranked-choice system, which allows voters to submit a ballot that […]
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Mainers go to polls in first statewide test of ranked-choice voting
AUGUSTA — Maine voters will head to the polls Tuesday to select Republican and Democratic nominees for governor, and decide the fate of ranked-choice voting in statewide elections. While many party loyalists in Maine will be waiting to see who prevails among the seven Democratic and four Republican gubernatorial candidates, political observers around the country […]
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Androscoggin County polling places
Auburn — 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Ward 1 Washburn School, 35 Lake Auburn Ave. Ward 2 Auburn Middle School, 38 Falcon Drive Ward 3 Fairview School, 397 Minot Ave. Ward 4 Auburn Hall, 60 Court St. Ward 5 Sherwood Heights School, 32 Sherwood Drive Durham — 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Durham Community School, […]
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Franklin and Oxford county polling places
Andover: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Town Hall Avon: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Community Room Bethel: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Crescent Park School Bridgton: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Town Hall Buckfield: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Municipal Building Canton: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Town Office Carrabassett Valley: 8 a.m. to 8 […]
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Election results at sunjournal.com
Some of the results from today’s primary elections may come in after the Sun Journal’s regular deadlines Tuesday, but we will post live results throughout the night and all week at sunjournal.com. Online coverage will be available without limitation to non-subscribers Tuesday and Wednesday. Go to sunjournal.com and enter your email address for full access. […]
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Effort to undermine Bruce Poliquin in Bangor is working, poll claims
A sustained advertising campaign in the Bangor area that battered Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin for his votes in favor of the GOP’s tax cut plan and against the Affordable Care Act cut deeply into the two-term lawmaker’s favorability ratings. The case study on the potential impact of highlighting a swing district congressman’s votes took […]
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Auburn vote: School budget will not raise taxes
AUBURN — Voters will decide Tuesday on a 2018-19 school budget and whether to join three area school departments to save money on services. The $43.69 million spending plan is up 4.6 percent from this year’s $41.7 million. The increase is covered by an additional $2.1 million from the state. To arrive at a budget […]
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Democratic primary: The fight for Bruce Poliquin’s seat
Style and experience — not the issues — separate the three Democrats vying next Tuesday for Bruce Poliquin’s seat in Congress. Democrats sense an opportunity to upend a Republican member of Congress in Maine’s sprawling, scrappy 2nd District, the poorest and least diverse east of the Mississippi River. With pockets of unemployment and a raging […]
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Federal judge rejects Max Linn’s effort to run in Maine Republican primary
A federal judge on Friday rejected a request by supporters of Max Linn to declare that Secretary of State Matt Dunlap violated the law when he rejected nominating petitions bearing their signatures and disqualified Linn from the June 12 Republican U.S. Senate primary. The ruling killed Linn’s hopes to run against state Sen. Eric Brakey […]
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New Gloucester candidate hopes to 'wear my crown to the State House'
NEW GLOUCESTER — The woman who holds the title of Mrs. Maine International is one of the two Democrats competing in a Tuesday primary to pick the party’s candidate in the 65th state House district. Misty Coolidge said Friday that she would “love to wear my crown to the State House.” Coolidge and Robert Maheu, […]