Shenna Bellows

President Trump wants to "lead" an effort to bar mail-in voting and voting machines. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says both would be bad ideas.

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, instead asked a DOJ official why the department wanted the information, how it would be used and to provide details about which, if any, laws Maine has violated as part of its efforts to maintain voter rolls.

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says nearly a third of Mainers with a drivers license have a REAL ID but she expects the demand to continue to rise.

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has joined her elections counterparts from multiple other states who say they don't plan to comply with DOJ requests for personal data on voters

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said an investigation by her office found that 11 of the names portrayed as being the same person were, in fact, different people. Nineteen people were recorded by their municipalities as voting twice, but actually voted just once.

Supporters of the Voter ID referendum accused Secretary of State Shenna Bellows of releasing a "deliberately confusing" question that they say obscures the core goal of the ballot initiative.

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows encourages people to wait until a later date if they don't have any upcoming travel. She also reminds passport holders that a passport is a valid form of identification for domestic travel.

Maine's secretary of state declined to say whether Maine will get involved in any court battles challenging the executive order but noted that individual states have broad discretion to set their own election laws.

The audit will focus on six legislative races from last year that were within a 5% margin of victory.

Shenna Bellows received threats of violence in December 2023 after she tried to remove Donald Trump from Maine's ballot.