Last week, the Maine Wire reported that a Newburgh, Maine, resident received – along with household goods – a bundle of 250 mail-in ballots for an upcoming referendum race in November that will entrust voters with two major issues: elections and gun rights.
The election question deals with voter ID requirements, the number of days for early and absentee voting, and ballot drop box locations, among other things. The gun law question pertains to ‘red-flag’ gun laws, allowing the confiscation of guns based on an interpretation of a citizen’s mental state.
Maine state authorities have now opened an investigation into the ‘misplaced’ ballots and are working with the United States Postal Service to gather more information.
USAToday reported:
Officials in Ellsworth, a coastal Maine city, reported to the state last week that 250 absentee ballots were missing in a delivery, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said during an Oct. 6 news conference. The report came on the same day an unnamed woman in Newburgh, a small town about 41 miles northwest of Ellsworth, claimed that she found bundled, unmarked ballots inside her Amazon package.