Stunning development in Maineโs ongoing election countingโฆ
The Secretary of Stateโs Office is claiming, one week after primary Election Day, that the Biddeford clerk sent them the wrong thumb drive.
Because Maine has Ranked-Choice Voting, the results canโt be counted in a municipality by the clerk who has had the job for 30 years. Instead, a thumb drive has to be couriered to a centralized location where the Secretary of Stateโs office enters all of the data into an algorithm and then, like the Delphine oracle, comes out with the results so indeterminate time later.
Biddeford is a massive Democrat city in CD1. But these results will not alter the U.S. Senate primary and they wonโt really matter outside of local elections and the Dem Gov primary.
Really the only election that this thumb-drive could change the outcome of is โฆ THE ONE SECRETARY OF STATE SHENNA BELLOWS IS RUNNING IN ๐
Sheโs like House of Cards meets VEEP. Iโm praying that the results out of Biddeford go Shennaโs way by two standard deviations from other cities. Maybe then Democrats will let us go back to free and fair elections counted by city clerks rather than eggheads in Augusta.
We will never know the chain of custody on that thumb drive.
๐จ๐จDEVELOPING: Multiple sources tell the Maine Wire that an RCV thumb drive for Biddeford is missing.
We've heard reports that Bath is missing as well, and Bowdoinham ballots need to be re-scanned.
The election was a week ago, and we still don't have results for several races due to the RCV tally process.