Troubling discovery on state voter rolls sparks action days before midterms: Should have been fixed
A conservative legal group filed an election complaint in Maine Tuesday, alleging that more than 3,000 potentially dead people and hundreds of duplicate registrations were discovered on the state’s voter rolls just days before the pivotal midterm elections.The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) identified 3,181 potentially dead voters and 693 duplicate registrations, urging the state to take action as Mainers prepare to cast their ballots Tuesday."Now we know why they were hiding them because there were problems on them," Adams told Fox News Digital."They have dead people, they have lots of duplicates and they have general problems.
It's something that should have been fixed a long time ago."The complaint, which was filed with Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, argues election officials have not made a "reasonable effort" to remove ineligible voters from the official list.TRUMP SCORES SUPREME COURT WIN IN ELECTION INTEGRITY FIGHT AS STATES GAIN NEW VOTER ROLL TOOLA Maine resident casts their ballot at a polling station inside the Augusta Civic Center on June 9, 2026 in Augusta, Maine.Maine voters will decide in primaries for U.S.
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(CJ Gunther/Getty Images)Adams said the state should have discovered the information, not his group."Why does it take a third-party group like the Public Interest Legal Foundation to find these duplicates?" Adams said.The group is asking the state to take "additional corrective action," warning it "may have no other recourse" but to appeal through the complaint process under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), a 2002 election reform law, if nothing is done.The group compared those findings with its previous investigation in 2025, which found 18,453 potentially dead voters and 1,498 duplicate or triplicate registration records in Maine.The state addressed many of the records identified that year, but PILF said some errors remain while "new problems have arisen."Several searches were used in the analysis t...