Election 2020-Maine-Ranked Voting
In this Nov. 12, 2018 file photo, ballots are prepared to be tabulated in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District election in Augusta.
In this Nov. 12, 2018 file photo, ballots are prepared to be tabulated in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District election in Augusta.
Record number of ballots cast in Maine
By CBS 13
A record number of voters throughout Maine cast ballots in this year’s presidential election.
A total of 842,447 people voted in both the presidential and U.S. Senate races in Maine, according to the Sun Journal.
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said this was the most votes cast in the state’s history.
According to the United States Election Assistance Commission, in the 2020 presidential race, 822,534 Maine voters cast ballots, meaning there were almost 10,000 more votes cast this year.
The official numbers for the voter turnout rate will be released sometime in the winter.
Nationwide, more than 153 million ballots have been counted in this year’s presidential race.
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