Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who just this week announced her candidacy for governor, has “serious concerns” about the new election integrity measures imposed by President Donald Trump in an executive order.
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“I have serious concerns about the policies proposed in the Executive Order that would make it harder to vote for women, military and overseas voters and rural citizens,” said Bellows.
Bellows, who previously drew national attention for a failed and unconstitutional attempt to strip Trump from Maine’s 2024 presidential ballots, expressed her concerns to a Maine media outlet on Thursday in response to a sweeping executive order signed by President Trump this week that he called the “farthest-reaching executive action taken in the history of the republic to secure our elections.”
The order implements a nationwide requirement that anyone registering to vote, whether by mail or in person, must provide documents proving their citizenship and requires agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Social Security Administration, and the Department of State to share information with state officials so that they can verify citizenship.
[RELATED: Trump Signs Executive Order to Ensure Election Integrity Across the Country…]
The order includes fiscal penalties, including the withdrawal of federal election-related funds from states that do not comply, and directs the Department of Justice to prioritize enforcement against election-related crimes in states that remain in violation of the order.
In addition to Bellow’s unexplained claim that proof of citizenship requirements would somehow disproportionately affect women and rural Americans, she also expressed concern that it requires government agencies to share personal data among themselves to help prove the citizenship of prospective voters.
“I am also deeply concerned about the data sharing requirements listed in the Executive Order. Mainers should be able to trust that their voter registration and driver’s license data will be protected by their government. Previous and ongoing actions by this administration have shown a disregard for information security and data privacy, so I will work with my colleagues in Maine and around the country to protect the rights of Maine voters and the security of our elections,” said Bellows.
She told the news outlet that she is still assessing the order but did not say whether Maine intends to comply with or resist the president and risk a loss of federal funding, as it has done in response to the president’s ban on males competing in women’s sports.
Despite recent polling that shows 84 percent of Americans support voter ID requirements, Bellows has long insisted that the requirements are somehow discriminatory and racist.
In 2023, Bellows suggested that ID requirements infringe on the constitutional rights of voters and are somehow discriminatory against racial minorities or rural Americans, whom she implies are unable to acquire identification.
“The bill could reduce faith in our elections by making participation for certain types of voters – black, indigenous, people of color, people living in poverty, seniors or people living in rural areas – more complicated and burdensome. It could also undermine faith in elections by increasing lines at the polls and headaches for voters,” said Bellows, speaking against a failed bill to improve election security.
Bellows’ resistance to the president’s election integrity efforts appears even more questionable as she begins her campaign for elected office this week to succeed Governor Janet Mills.
With her recent comments, Bellows is in the position of running for office while poised to preside as the Secretary of State over her own election and actively speaking out against measures that seek to make that election more secure.
She has thus far refused to resign her position as Secretary of State, despite concerns that her position of power over elections constitutes a conflict of interest and provides her with the opportunity to take advantage of her office for the sake of electoral benefits.
The site of this “ person “ makes me ill .
She’s way to stupid ( stupid equals dangerous ) to be governor .
We don’t need her or her stupid tree and communist star flag either .
It makes me ill .
Bellows’ “serious concerns” are it will make it harder for her to cheat! But since she refuses to resign as SoS, she will oversee every aspect of the election she’s running in! That includes counting the votes and certifying the count!
Fürhrer Bellows already knows she’ll declare herself the winner!
If there could be anyone WORSE than Janet Mills it would be Sheeena Bellows .
She would be the final nail in the coffin for the state of Maine .
It’s absolutely unthinkable that she becomes our governor .
This moon bat Uber liberal thinks Voter ID is “unfair”? How insulting is it to women, people in rural areas, and minorities to be told you are too stupid to be able to provide basic ID information in order to vote? If you want to do almost any basic function in life, you must provide ID, why should voting be different? Her talking about election “fairness” is a complete joke. Remember she tried to keep Trump’s name off the ballot in Maine, knowing full well this stand was going to be rejected by the Supreme Court, which it was. Apparently, voters cannot be trusted to make up their own minds without the “guidance” of leftist Sheena Bellows. If she had any shred of integrity, she would resign from the role of Secretary of State in order to run for Governor to avoid any hint of conflict of interest. In her former position as ACLU head, don’t think for 1 second she wouldn’t fight a conservative who ever had thoughts of doing the same thing. And let’s face it, she is a flat out socialist. She will promote gun control, more climate change measures, higher income taxes, higher electricity costs, higher business taxes, publicly funded elections, and on and on. There will be tampons in every boys bathroom around the state. If she gets elected, Mills will look like the good old days. What an absolute disaster in the making!
Shanna Bellows is AGAINST VOTER ID. CHEAT. CHEAT. CHEAT. is the rules she lives by.
What’s wrong with voter ID? Nothing at all you ID to buy beer, alcohol or cigarettes. What a lame excuse.
Unless of course you’re an illegal that can’t get a ID.
Voter ID makes it easier for legal citizens to vote and harder for illegal citizens and dead citizens to vote. Without the unfair advantage of ELECTION FRAUD the MARXISTS would never be SELECTED. Especially not The Mills dynasty and their minions.
If she can’t cheat, she can’t win.
Mainers, are we going to put a stop to this at the ballot box once and for all? This is nonsense. This is clown world. We simply cannot move forward with these usurpers any longer.
I urge Maine Wire to continue the “in your face pressure on Bellows” to step down as SoS. But don’t stop there, who are Bellows loving subordinates who would gleefully step in as a biased overseer of elections.
I love the Pine Tress state, but as we all know, pine trees are easily uprooted. How many of us are going to start emigrating to red states because of the many ways Maine is Trans-forming? “The way life should be” …has all but vanished.
What, I can’t Cheat to Win?
“ID requirements infringe on the constitutional rights” really? just what rights would that be? cricks. You know what comes next don’t ya, nazis! everybodys a nazi.
Governor Laurel Libby!
Another stupid woman for the governor? Maine wake up and vote against democratic gang.
Mark My Words : I will remind you all later .
George Soros , The Maine ACLU , All the multitude of “ Trans “ NGOs , and The Maine Democrat Party will fund a whole slew of “ Independent “ Candidates , and FLOOD THE BALLOT with a bunch of left wing lunatics. Read ( Cornell West – Jill Stein types ) in order to guarantee that nobody gets more than 50% in the election and they can run their Ranked Choice Scam .
Who will count the votes ? Yup ! Sheena Bellows .
She will count them until she wins .
It’s the “ perfect “ scenario for the left to GUARANTEE that they will will the Blaine House .
We are F@*ked !
Isn’t the security of states job to make sure everybody can get ID? If she’s saying people don’t have ID its her fault. Doesn’t sound like she has a very good job history for a move up.
In other news the DOJ has paused all funding for schools in maine for tidal 9 violations. Governor mills response,,,
she should be charged for trying to trump take off the ballot last election, instead she will get all the finacial backing she needs to buy governor.. quid pro quo you know!!!
The only way Democrat’s can win the next election is to cheat. So, we better watch the Democrats as they will cheat.
You don’t have a chance I’d hades hunny, you tried to take Trump off the ballot in my state, so I could not vote for the best president,, you might as well drop out now bellows,
Laurel Libby, Will kick your butt so bad, she even hadn’t announced she’s running yet.
Biden and fellow Democrats have placed the country in a very serious finical
pit. To save the Country the Republicans have to make deep cuts and they are taking the least hurtful cuts.
Bellows is a slim ball! At some point Maine citizens need to grab their pitchforks, march to Augusta and get these rats out of office. Just waiting for someone to say it’s go time.
Time to rally up I’d say? How much longer are we going to let the govt destroy the state of my grantfathers? Its about the controlling populous in So ME and we all know it.
Hoist the dirigo flag brothers and sisters of the north.
I don’t understand how anyone with a shred of common sense can get that far to the left.
Her concern is that she may have a harder time rigging the elections than she used too.
Bellows has serious concerns about measures that will hinder her ability to cheat on elections. Who is she kidding.
Bellows is just one more loon in Maine
It’s time for York and Cumberland to secede and rejoin Massachusetts.
I agree with Mooseman. “This moon bat Uber liberal thinks Voter ID is “unfair”? How insulting is it to women, people in rural areas, and minorities to be told you are too stupid to be able to provide basic ID information in order to vote? If you want to do almost any basic function in life, you must provide ID, why should voting be different?”
As SOS, Bellows should know better since the BMV falls under the SOS. This blah blah blah excuse has been going on for decades. A $5.00 ID is required for those on welfare as well as the elderly to get prescriptions, elderly care, etc. It’s disingenuous to say certain groups of Maine residents are disenfranchised. But since when has that stopped her.
Reality is anything that stops the communist-DemocRATS from cheating in elections they are against. Also if you think she cannot be elected you are a fool, Mainers will elect this evil witch in a heartbeat. All she needs is Southern Maine(All of Portland area, Lewiston-Auburn, Brunswick, etc) and she is in. Remember these idiots have been voting in Chellie and others just like her for years. My faith in Mainers doing the right thing is right at ZERO.
Show an ID to vote? And the democrats have an issue with that? Again, they can’t win without cheating!
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Could this be the source her distress? Sorta looks like Maine’s AG is trying to help her. An honest election can be a frightening thing.
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Bellows constituents? Given what we have seen lately, it is hard to think they are not.
Continue to slit your own throats Maine… (metaphorically that is for you snowflakes) Its embarrassing to think Bellows would be an option to continue an even more radical agenda…