Two Maine Citizens Allege Many Counties Have Implausible and Impossible Voter Registration Rates, Threaten to Sue Secretary of State

Two Maine citizens have threatened to sue Secretary of State Shenna Bellows for improper voter roll maintenance unless action is taken within ninety days.

Alex Titcomb — co-founder and Executive Director of The Dinner Table PAC — and Kristin Tripp allege that all sixteen counties in the state have an implausible, and in some cases impossible, share of registered voters.

In eleven counties, they calculated that the number of registered voters exceeded the county’s entire voting age population, and in the remaining five they found a registration rate of over 95 percent, far outpacing the nationwide registration rate in recent elections.

Based on an analysis of publicly available voter registration records and voting age population data from U.S. Census Bureau’s 2017-2022 American County Survey, Titcomb and Tripp reported having found that eleven Maine counties have between 100.14 percent and 110.11 percent voter registration rates. The remaining five were calculated as ranging from 95.03 percent to 98.72 percent.

Titcomb and Tripp’s legal team note in their letter that the U.S. Census Bureau has calculated the nationwide voter registration rate as of the November 2022 election was just 69.1 percent.