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If enough additional states sign onto the compact, future presidents could be elected by popular vote rather than through the Electoral College system.
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If it becomes law, the measure pledges Maine's four Electoral College votes to winner of the national popular vote, even if the state voters choose another candidate.
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The Associated Press called the races for Biden and Trump not long after the polls closed in Maine at 8 p.m. as election returns began trickling in from across the state.
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Thursday’s arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court over former President Trump’s access to the Colorado ballot will have direct implications for a nearly identical legal battle in Maine.
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In a brief statement, Shenna Bellows said her appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court "ensures that Maine’s highest court has the opportunity to weigh in now, before ballots are counted" as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to take up a similar case from Colorado.
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Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy ordered Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to hold off on any additional actions until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a similar Colorado case challenging Trump's eligibility to run in the presidential primaries.
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The former New Jersey governor says he filed enough signatures to qualify but that an administrative practice wrongly kept him off of the ballot.
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At one polling location, voters were split over a public buyout of the state's electric grid.
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The program was approved by voters last fall, following the recommendation of a local charter commission.
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The Maine secretary of state has certified the 2022 election results and is estimating that turnout was roughly 75%, a figure that could put the state among the nation's leaders.