LEWISTON — City Clerk Kathy Montejo was recently honored with the 2017 President’s Award from the Maine Town and City Clerks’ Association. In a news release Thursday, Lisa Goodwin, president of the Maine Town and City Clerks’ Association, called Montejo “a champion of the office of municipal clerk and a role model for clerks throughout Maine.” […]
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Will there be low voter turnout again?
Lewiston City Clerk Kathy Montejo, left, and election workers count ballots in the 2016 school budget vote. The budget was rejected by six votes last year. As of Tuesday, no had requested an absentee ballot for Tuesday’s referendum, which could indicate the school budget vote could again suffer a low voter turnout. LEWISTON — As […]
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Last day for absentee ballots
LEWISTON — Thursday, June 9, is the last day voters can get absentee ballots for the June 14 election. According to the City Clerk’s office, 506 absentee ballots had been requested as of Wednesday. The number is higher than it was on May 20, when City Clerk Kathy Montejo said only 165 absentee ballots had […]
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Lewiston: Absentee ballot requests low
LEWISTON — City Clerk Kathy Montejo is worried about the June 14 election because of the low number of requests for absentee ballots. “I’m just so afraid people will forget about it because of the timing of it,” she said. “The weather’s nice. School’s winding down. I don’t want it to fall through the cracks.” […]
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Legibility key in vetting petitions for city clerks
LEWISTON — It can take just a few seconds to verify that a signature on a petition is valid, according to Lewiston City Clerk Kathy Montejo, assuming the signer has legible handwriting and hasn’t moved around much. “But you have to take into account that people are signing these things in parking lots, balancing their […]
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Lewiston warns absentee voters to mail ballots early for mayoral runoff
LEWISTON — With Lewiston’s mayoral runoff election looming, City Clerk Kathy Montejo warned absentee ballot voters not to sit on their ballots. “In Maine, the absentee ballot has to be in our hands by 8 p.m. on election night,” Montejo said. “Not in the mail, not postmarked, not in the mail system — in our […]
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Bates student voters take issue with Lewiston candidate Soule
LEWISTON — Mayoral candidate Charles Soule said he was trying to make a point about local elections when he challenged a group of Bates College students at the polls Tuesday. “I explained the facts, about how would they feel if I went to their family’s home district and started voting in their election without changing […]
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Lewiston voter turnout good, not great
LEWISTON — Voter turnout for Tuesday’s municipal election was good, but it didn’t set any records. City Clerk Kathy Montejo said ballots were cast by 8,393 voters, about 33.5 percent of the city’s 25,009 registered voters. That surpassed the most recent 2013 municipal election, which had a 28 percent voter turnout, she said. “But that […]
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Lewiston runoff vote set for Dec. 8 as financial rules reset
LEWISTON — Voting in a runoff election between Mayor Robert Macdonald and challenger Ben Chin should begin Friday, when absentee ballots become available at City Hall. City councilors on Wednesday voted to set the election on Dec. 8 and to set the single polling place at Longley Elementary School. City Clerk Kathy Montejo said absentee […]
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Absentee ballots expected this week
LEWISTON — Residents can register for absentee ballots, but they won’t be able to get them until later this week. According to state rules, Maine cities and towns could begin issuing absentee ballots on Friday. City Clerk Kathy Montejo said a train derailment somewhere between Georgia and Massachusetts last week has delayed the delivery of […]