DLCC Applauds Return of Maine Same-Day Voter Registration

Passage of Question 1 a Victory for Voting Rights

Washington, DC - With 186 of 600 precincts reporting, same-day voter registration has been reinstated in Maine as voters approved with 59 percent of the vote a People’s Veto of the GOP-authored law that ended the practice. Michael Sargeant, Executive Director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, issued the following statement regarding the successful restoration of this voting practice. 

“Tonight’s defeat of the Maine GOP’s new suppressive voting law is a substantial victory for voting rights and a rejection of Republicans’ ongoing efforts to limit democracy,” said Sargeant. “Maine voters have already gone to the polls repeatedly this year to deliver Democratic victories in special elections. Mainers have now also delivered a direct rebuke of one of the most reprehensible laws the state GOP rammed through the legislature.

“This is only the latest string of rebukes of the GOP’s out-of-touch, anti-middle class agendas in states this year. Especially after tonight's victory for working families in Ohio, these wins should put Republicans everywhere on notice: there is a price to pay for right-wing extremism and partisan overreach.”