Democrats who control the Maine Legislature on Tuesday rejected a Republican effort to impeach the state’s top election official for her decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state ballot over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The Maine House voted 80-60 against the resolution targeting Shenna Bellows, the first secretary of state in history to block someone from running for president by invoking the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause.
Bellows, who watched the entire proceeding from the gallery, vowed to abide by any legal ruling on her decision to keep Trump off Maine’s March 5 primary ballot, which is under appeal in Maine Superior Court.
Republicans are furious over Bellows’ conclusion that the GOP frontrunner shouldn’t be on the ballot. They argued that her decision disenfranchised the more than 300,000 voters in Maine who chose Trump in the last election.
“Not being able to vote for the traitor this time is somehow disenfranchising people who legally voted and had their ballots counted last time and are still going to be able to vote for someone else this time” is one of the dumber arguments I’ve heard on this topic, and that says something…
They also forget that you can always write in names on a ballot. Those 300,000 people can just write “Donald Trump” and go home.
Well I mean, can they though?
Every position has a write-in line on every ballot. You can do this and they will count it towards that person.
Yesh but do they have the ability to write though?
LOL nice one.
Drooling is a valid substitute
It would be hilarious to make someone president who didn’t want it. Larry David springs to mind.
Wasn’t something like that the theme of the show that Zelensky starred in?
Wow. Yes.
And then he ran for president
And the world came full circle…for a while.