Asked whether he would attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration in January, Trump said he knew the answer but didn’t want to share it yet.
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Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Maine, News, Politics
How and when will Maine cast its electoral votes?
The state’s four Electoral College voters are expected to cast 3 votes for Joe Biden and one for Donald Trump next month, even as Republicans loyal to Trump raise the possibility of interventions in some states.
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Posted inMaine, News, Politics
In reversal, Maine House endorses national popular vote bill
But the measure faces more votes to determine whether Maine should join other states that hope to drop the Electoral College in choosing the president.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
House rejects move for Maine to bypass Electoral College
The House defeats a bill to have Maine join a compact of states that would award their Electoral College votes to the winner of the popular presidential vote nationwide.
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Don't ignore the majority
I write in response to the letter from Tere Porter (Feb. 24). He responded to a story in the Sun Journal, “Electoral vote change in state?” (Feb. 18), concerning proposed changes to how Maine’s electors for the Electoral College would be chosen. Whatever happened to one man/one vote and majority wins? Porter’s statistics may be […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Maine bill would allocate Maine electoral votes according to national vote
AUGUSTA — There’s a push underway to have Maine join a movement aimed at undercutting the ability of the Electoral College to put someone in the White House who comes up short in the popular vote. Legislators are eyeing a measure that would have Maine join with other states to guarantee that its electoral votes […]
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 […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
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 […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
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 […]
Posted inNation / World, sj-web
Electoral College: Donald Trump has 259 votes so far; Hillary Clinton, 166
#BREAKING: Democratic Maine elector’s vote for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders ruled improper; he switches vote to Hillary Clinton. #mepolitics — Sun Journal (@sunjournal) December 19, 2016 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Electoral College meeting Monday to formally elect Donald Trump the nation’s 45th president (all times EDT): Updated 4:44 p.m.: New Jersey’s 14 […]