Maine voters will head to polling places across the state Tuesday to approve or reject local school budgets. Voters in many communities also will elect municipal and school officials or decide the ...

Michelle Beedy, New Vineyard's town clerk, said she would like to get voting tabulation equipment, such as the hand-fed optical scanners the majority of Maine municipalities use to count ballots.

While Maine town offices can start to prepare the ballots for counting a few days before election day, the ballots themselves won't be counted until election day itself. This chart shows the ...

Maine does not have in-person early voting, though absentee ballots can be returned to town clerks or drop-off boxes ahead of an election. Source: Maine Secretary of State How do you cast an ...

But the town enjoys its traditions, hauling out an old-fashioned wooden ballot box for each election. New Vineyard is one of 150 towns, or about a third of all voting jurisdictions in Maine ...

MAINE (WMTW) - As of Monday, voters in Maine can start casting ballots for the Nov. 5 election. In-person absentee ... not the municipal ballot. Town officials announced over the weekend that ...

Bucking National Trends, a Third of Maine Towns Still Count Ballots by Hand When polls close at 8 p.m. on Nov. 5, six trained election clerks in New Vineyard, a town of about 700 in Franklin ...