Registration Cards in Short Supply as Maine Voter Enrollment Drives Heat Up

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A shortage of voter registration cards on hand at the Maine Secretary of State's office is frustrating some groups and candidates who are launching drives to enroll new voters. The Maine Democratic Party says the secretary has dispensed up to 1,000 cards at a time in the past. Now that number has dropped to 50. Officials at the Secetary of State's office say they are merely updating their forms and that new cards should be available next month.

Colleen Lachowicz showed up at the Secretary of State's office last week to pick up some voter registration cards. As a Democratic state Senate candidate from Waterville, she thought might use some of her campaigning time to register new voters.

Although the Secretary of State's Office commonly allows candidates such as Lachowicz to take up to a 1,000 cards, she says that's not what she got. "I was told they only had 250 left so they said they could give me 20," she says. "And I said, 'Could I have 50?' And so I was able to get 50 of them. And they had me sign a paper saying they could give me 50."

Lachowiscz says she can't help but wonder about the effect the state's current rationing system is having statewide. "I'm just concerned that if there's only 250 of these things left, I'm sure there's more than 250 people that want to get registered to vote at this time."

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Charlie Summers is Maine's SoS and running for Olympia Snowe's Senate seat.

He has recruited the Koch Brother's Maine Heritage Policy Center to run his campaign.

He tried his best to find "voter fraud" in Maine and found none.

If this isn't blatant voter suppression - I don't know what is.

yup