Longtime Biden aide Ted Kaufman had been leading efforts to ensure the former vice president can begin building out a government in anticipation of a victory.
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Maine CDC reports 138 new coronavirus cases, two more deaths
Meanwhile, the University of Maine identifies a cluster of COVID-19 cases involving 10 individuals in facilities management on the Orono campus.
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Mainers say they back mask mandate, even if they won’t follow it to the letter
While they hope the governor’s new order leads to more mask wearing, some admitted they will still take off their masks when it doesn’t seem to make sense to wear them.
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COVID-19: ‘The Bitter End’ for nation’s live music venues?
The New Orleans funk band Galactic bought the decades-old music club Tipitina’s late in 2018 and appeared to be making a success of the venue.
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More than 150,000 ballots caught in postal facilities missed Election Day deadline
U.S. Postal Service, which had said it was doing daily sweeps for misplaced ballots, acknowledged Thursday that thousands had not been processed in time.
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The ‘two Maines’ disagreed again, but Trump’s support declined in both
The biggest split between Maine’s congressional districts was in the U.S. Senate race.
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Portland corrects election results
While a counting error does not appear to have overturned any results, the revised totals reveal that proposed restrictions on short-term rentals failed by a razor thin margin of 235 votes – less than 1 percent – rather than the more than 2,000-vote, or 4 percent, margin that was originally reported.
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Trump falsely claims victory, seeks to stop ‘all voting’ — but only counting remains
President Trump says he’ll take the presidential election to the Supreme Court, but it’s unclear what he means in a country in which vote tabulations routinely continue beyond Election Day, and states largely set the rules for when the count has to end.
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Big turnout makes for long, orderly lines at Biddeford polls
Voters seems to take the wait in stride.
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Coronavirus, economy topped list of Mainers’ concerns heading into elections
With COVID-19 surging in Maine, the majority of local participants in The Associated Press’s national survey said the virus was ‘not at all under control’ in the U.S. and strongly disapproved of President Trump’s handling of the pandemic.