FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, January 12, 2022 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Shenna Bellows will be testifying today on a bill to protect Maine’s election workers, and other election-related legislation. The bill, L.D. …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, January 4, 2022 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 [Bellows] Jackie Merrill 207-812-1111 [Galgay Reckitt] AUGUSTA — The Secretary of State’s Corporations Division has made the 2022 corporate annual reports available online. For …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Saturday, January 1, 2022 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — The candidate forms for the 2022 elections are now available online so candidates can begin collecting signatures on January 1, 2022 for the coming election cycle. …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 14, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is warning Mainers to be suspicious of text messages they may have received from an entity claiming to be the “Maine DMV” which …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, November 16, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — The official tabulation of the votes cast for the November 2, 2021 Referendum Election has been posted on the Secretary of State’s website. The tabulation is …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, November 15, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — The original report of the 1938 railroad accident that killed famed Civil Rights leader James Weldon Johnson in Wiscasset, which is held by the Maine State Archives, …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, November 10, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 Governor's Proclamation House District 27 AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows signed the proclamation announcing a special election for …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, November 9, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) will be convening two working groups beginning next week: one for electronic titling and one for specialty registration …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, November 8, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is warning Maine corporations and non-profits of a misleading solicitation they may have received in the mail which offer to file …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, November 5, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Shenna Bellows announced the hiring of Jerome Bennett as Deputy Secretary of State for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Bennett is the first …
MEDIA ADVISORY Monday, November 1, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Shenna Bellows will visit polling places around Maine on November 2, 2021, the last day of voting for the Referendum Election. Maine, from the Department …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, October 22, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has announced that the Towns of Swanville, New Portland and Eastport have launched Rapid Renewal, the Department of the Secretary of …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, October 20, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and Executive Director Shane Hamlin today announced that Maine joined the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 29, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Shenna Bellows released the following statement following the Legislature’s passage of bipartisan redistricting maps: “Now that the hard work …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 27, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — As Election Day nears on Nov. 2, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is reminding all Maine voters of a non-partisan resource that can help them make informed …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, September 21, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has announced that the Town of Enfield has launched Rapid Renewal, the Department of the Secretary of State’s online service for …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, September 14, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 Augusta, ME – On Wednesday, September 15th at 11:30 AM Secretary of State Shenna Bellows joins organ donor recipients and advocates on the launch of a statewide Maine …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, September 7, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has announced that the Town of Verona Island has launched Rapid Renewal, the Department of the Secretary of State’s online service …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, August 30, 2021 Contact: Emily Cook 207-441-0405 AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows signed a proclamation announcing a special election for the Maine House District 86 seat will be held …
