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seems like a bad move. if Moulton crashes out, she'll be right there with him; almost zero scenario she beats Moulton AND Markey in a primary

she's far better off holding out for Warren's seat
 
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Am I missing something? Everyone should oppose that ballot measure. It's blatant voter suppression dressed up as "security."



The measure is the brainchild of conservative megadonor Leonard Leo, the architect of the right’s decades-long effort to take over the courts and reshape the electoral process.
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On Sunday afternoon, Platner filled the State Theatre, an historic art deco venue in Portland in Maine’s largest city, with close to 1,000 people eager to hear how the campaign planned to save absentee voting in the Pine Tree State. The voter suppression initiative would hobble absentee voting in the state with the oldest population in the country, enact strict voter ID requirements, and severely limit access to ballot dropboxes. In the last election cycle, more than 40% of Mainers used absentee voting. Polls have shown voters evenly divided on the measure, which could have considerable implications for the 2026 general election.

The ballot question is an early test for the Platner campaign, which has pledged to invest an unusually significant proportion of its campaign budget on grassroots organizing, making the case that defeating Collins is just one part of a longer and deeper project of building power. The statewide organizing effort is also Platner’s answer to a developing national narrative that the Platner campaign is in chaos, with the loss of its political director, campaign manager, a fundraiser, and the replacement of its treasurer.

“The reason we are in this room together today is because there is a move to steal democracy from us, to restrict access to the ballot for Mainers of all stripes,” Platner told the Portland crowd. “To defeat it, we must engage in what many of us have not done before. And that means getting involved.”

“It requires you to go out into your community; it requires you to have conversations with people you know you are going to disagree with, and you have to have them anyways. You have to remain open, empathetic, and compassionate. Understanding that not everyone is where you are now, but that there is hope. There is hope in the ability of people to change.”

In late October, the campaign released its own ad against Question 1, complete with the class-inflection that has been a hallmark of Platner’s stump speeches. “Don’t let a right-wing billionaire on Mount Desert Island screw up absentee voting in Maine,” he says in the ad.

Leo, who has a mansion in Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island, is a major donor to Collins, and he has deployed several secondary vehicles to put space between himself and the ballot measure. The “Yes” campaign is being run by a group called Voter ID for ME, which in turn is largely funded by the Republican State Leadership Committee. The RSLC, meanwhile, is largely funded by the Lexington Fund, a dark money group backed by Leo, and First Principle PAC, a super PAC linked to the Lexington Fund. Maine unions and the ACLU have combined to oppose the measure.
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