Early data, observations at polls signal high voter turnout in Maine's primary election

Some Maine polls ran out of ballots and saw long wait times during Tuesday’s primary, illustrating the interest in the many crowded, and in some cases nationally watched, contests.

Chief Deputy Secretary of State Kate McBrien said she knows of at least three towns that ran out of ballots — Portland, Westbrook and Kennebunkport — at some point Tuesday. (State law stipulates that only law enforcement is authorized to deliver more.)

Some towns ran out of local ballots but not state ones, or vice versa, McBrien said. Buxton ran out of local ballots, for example.

At least 11 polling locations had greater than ten minute wait times to vote and several towns had wait times of 45 minutes, including Camden, Falmouth, multiple locations in Portland, Poland, Waterboro, and Yarmouth. That’s according to the League of Women Voters of Maine, which deployed nonpartisan volunteer election observers to various polling locations.




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