Voting

Maine Approves Same-Day Voter Registration, After State GOP Suggested Initiative Was Pro-Gay

Ryan J. Reilly | November 9, 2011, 11:35AM

Despite a warning from Maine's Republican party that a gay rights group supported same day registration, state voters restored the option by a three-to-two margin Tuesday night.

"Maine has long prided itself on high voter participation, sparked by its long-standing practice of Same Day Registration (SDR)," Miles Rapoport, president of Demos and former Connecticut Secretary of State, said in a statement. "Now Maine's citizens have spoken loud and clear: They will not allow people who want to discourage real participation to diminish Maine's commitment to democracy."

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Topics: Maine, Voting, Voting Rights Act

Maine

Maine GOP Ad: The Gays Are Trying To Impose Same Day Voter Registration

Ryan J. Reilly | November 8, 2011, 10:00AM

Here's an interesting way to rally opposition to a ballot proposition that would allow for same-day voter registration: convince voters that its being pushed by gay activists and their pro-gay agenda.

That's what the Maine Republican Party did with ads they paid thousands of dollars to run in Maine newspapers.

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Topics: Maine, Voter suppression, Voting, Voting Rights Act, voter fraud

Paul LePage

Maine Gov: Let's Drug Test Welfare Recipients

David Taintor | November 7, 2011, 10:16AM

Welfare recipients should be treated like truck drivers, tea partying Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) says. Or, in other words, he wants to randomly drug test welfare recipients.

At a business chamber breakfast in Jay, Maine, LePage said, "I'm going to ask the Legislature to do what every truck driver in the United States of America has to do, take a random test," Maine Today reports. "I think if we're going to take our own limited resources, we ought to be able to test 'em on occasion."

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Topics: Drug Testing, Maine, Paul LePage, Welfare