Maine’s high court upheld a ruling on Tuesday keeping Republican Max Linn off the U.S. Senate primary ballot in June, ending a campaign that was derailed by fraudulent nomination signatures that the one-time candidate admitted but never explained. Read More
Max Linn, a retired financial planner from Bar Harbor, is appealing a Superior Court decision that threw him off the Republican primary ballot. Read More
Republican Shawn Moody and Democrat Janet Mills are clear front-runners in Maine’s June gubernatorial primaries, while a Democratic 2nd Congressional District primary is effectively tied in the first public ranked-choice poll of Maine’s 2018 primaries. Read More
City Clerk Patti Dubois said backers of the recall filed 887 signatures with the city. Read More
The vote puts the state on track to regulate a retail market that has been in limbo since voters legalized recreational marijuana use in 2016. Read More
Public money is playing a big role in the race after three candidates qualified for Maine’s Clean Election program. Read More
Linn’s lawyer, Steven Juskewitch, filed a notice of appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in an Augusta courthouse on Monday. Read More
Supporters of Medicaid expansion sued Maine on Monday to force state officials to implement the voter-approved law that has been held up by Gov. Paul LePage. Read More
In a reversal, Maine’s secretary of state disqualified Republican U.S. Senate candidate Max Linn from the June primary ballot after a Tuesday hearing in which his campaign admitted that there was “hanky-panky” around his signature-gathering effort. Read More
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Max Linn renewed an unsubstantiated allegation that his primary opponent sabotaged his nominating signatures after his lawyer admitted at a Tuesday hearing that there was “hanky-panky” and possible fraud around them. Read More
Good morning from Augusta. A Maine House of Representatives candidate from Greene wants you to know that she doesn’t control a massive sum of money raised by a local Democratic committee specifically for her race. She is calling on the Lewiston Democratic Committee to… Read More
Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Max Linn’s ballot status will be reconsidered after his opponent in the June primary flagged more issues with nominating petition signature on his that a state attorney said “could change the outcome” for him. Read More
Legislators in both parties agreed that they must return to Augusta to handle key matters that lawmakers punted when the Legislature broke up early Thursday. Read More
“The voters have grown weary of a government that sits on its hands and refuses to do its job because we cannot find a way to talk to one another,” said Rep. Kent Ackley. Read More
The decision from the Maine Supreme Judicial Court allows Secretary of State Matt Dunlap to continue implementing the system for gubernatorial and congressional primaries. Read More
Rep. Bruce Poliquin took in more than $2.6 million as of March’s end in the run-up to his second re-election bid. Read More
The court has several options, including striking down the ranked-choice voting law, upholding it, flagging certain constitutional issues or refusing to rule. Read More
It's the closest the state has been to implementing a 2016 legalization referendum. Read More
State Sen. Eric Brakey said Tuesday that he would file a challenge against Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap. Read More
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Max Linn was allowed to stay on Maine’s June primary ballot despite dozens of fraudulent signatures that showed up on his petition. Read More
