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First it was our secretary of state attempting not to allow Republicans the option to vote for Donald Trump during the March 2024 presidential primary.
Then, it was the 250 absentee ballots found in an Amazon box reportedly sent to a lady in Newburgh in September 2025.
Then the secretary of state declares her run for governor and gets her name on the Democratic primary ballot.
Then our secretary of state disallows several hundred signatures on a citizens’ initiative not to allow biological boys to compete in girls sports, several weeks after she approved said signatures.
Now, a week after the primary, our secretary of state’s office is supervising the counting of ballots in Maine’s ranked-choice voting system, which I consider baffling because it gives candidates without the majority of first-place votes the chance of “winning” an election (remember Jared Golden versus Bruce Poliquin?)
Douglas Ferguson
Dixmont