Maine Secretary of State Fights to Preserve Restrictions, Penalties for Publicizing Errors on Voter Rolls

Maine’s Democrat-dominated state government is in a last-ditch legal battle to stop people, for privacy’s sake, from noting errors on state voter rolls.

People cast their votes at the Italian Heritage Center in Portland, Maine, in a file photo. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) wants to know whether some people are registered to vote in the state of Maine and the state of New York at the same time.

To get the answer to that question and more, in October 2019, the PILF requested a copy of Maine’s statewide voter roll from the Maine Secretary of State’s Office.