Another disastrous primary election: Was Maine's Democratic Party Behind Effort to Block Sanders Votes?

Were we representative of other towns in Maine? There were reports of the same problem in other towns. Deering High School in Portland ran out of ballots. I turns out this was a widespread problem in Maine, in towns including Camden, Freeport, Union, Scarborough, and Saco.

Maine has done caucuses since 2000. This year the state returned to running a Primary.

Ryder Kessler, the Voter Protection Director of the Maine Democratic Party, said that it was a "very active election day with 64% turn out. It did not go as smoothly as you'd prefer."

Maine Bureau of Corporations Elections and Commissions' Customer Service Representative Specialist, Anne Boucher, said that this problem occurred in all 500 municipalities in Maine, from large towns like Portland to small towns like Waite.

Anne said that their plan to deal with ballots running out was to send photocopies to each town, so that "anytime there is a problem, you could email to the drop box or stay on hold to get someone (who could send photocopies of ballots). Some people were on hold 20 minutes."

She said people were faxing their offices faxes and they were answering with faxes but admitted that they were so busy they could not get to the dropbox requests.

"It was crazy"

For the rest of this article exclusively contributed to ThisCantBeHappening by LAURIE DOBSON, who lives on Maine's Cranberry Isles, please go to: https://thiscantbehappening.net/was-maines-democratic-party-behind-a-statewide-effort-to-prevent-sanders-voters-from-getting-ballots/

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