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Published
October 6, 2019

Maine Suffrage Centennial: Lewiston journalist was early, bold advocate for the vote among Franco women

Starting in 1910, Camille Lessard Bissonnette took a singular stand when she reached out to immigrant women in Maine and women in French Canada.
Published
September 28, 2019

Maine Voices: Let’s move forward together to address injustice, not take a step back

The We Must Do MORE Tour, a civic engagement movement grounded in the concerns of the poor, is coming to Portland on Oct. 10.
Published
September 8, 2019

The View From Here: We are more than just consumers

Citizens who are working together have more power than individuals who are deciding what they want to buy.
Published
August 25, 2019

Maulian Dana: Many still silenced after women got the vote

Native Americans in Maine did not achieve full suffrage rights as citizens for many years after the right to vote was extended to women in 1920.
Published
August 2, 2019

Battle brews to dump Jim Crow rules aimed at keeping African-Americans from office

A lawsuit in Mississippi targets the state's 1890 constitution, which still has provisions expressly crafted to stop blacks from getting elected.

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Published
July 9, 2019

Opponents of a dozen new laws aim to erase them with ‘people’s veto’ campaigns

With a short time to collect 63,067 signatures, special interest groups and individuals file more than a dozen requests to challenge newly signed laws.
Published
July 8, 2019

Presidential primaries, automatic voter registration among election-law changes

But lawmakers defeated several attempts to change the citizen initiative process and the ranked-choice voting that was used statewide in Maine for the first time last year.
Published
June 12, 2019

Maine House rejects giving towns ‘local control’ over guns in polling places

The legislation would have allowed towns to set their own policies regarding whether guns could be carried at public meetings or in polling locations.
Published
June 10, 2019

Maine House rejects proposals barring non-citizens from voting

Opponents said the 2 proposed constitutional amendments were unnecessary because state law already says only U.S. citizens can vote in 'any election' in Maine.
Published
June 9, 2019

The View From Here: Grandma taught us about voting and dignity

A lifelong conservative, she would have supported a law that recognizes independence and responsibility.