Vandals painted swastikas on signs urging people to vote “Yes on 1” to support the referendum ballot question that would make Maine elections more secure by requiring voters to show photo ID before casting their ballots.
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All of the vandalized signs pictured above were found on State Route 123 in Harpswell, with one of them located in front of a local ice cream parlor.
The signs were paid for by Voter ID for ME, headed by Alex Titcomb. The group was responsible for gathering the signatures required to place the voter ID referendum on the ballot in November.
In response to the vandalized signs, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department took down the signs after receiving complaints about the swastikas, Titcomb told The Maine Wire.
According to Titcomb, he now has to jump through additional hoops to get the signs back from the Sheriff’s Evidence Department.
The Voter ID referendum has faced harsh criticism from many on the left, including the Bangor Daily News’ editorial board, which called the election integrity measure a “page from Putin’s Playbook” in an August op-ed.
The Maine Democratic Party has also branded its opposition to the measure as a means to “save absentee voting,” with their Executive Director Devon Murphy-Anderson going so far as to say the referendum would “completely gut absentee voting in Maine.”
Such vitriolic and hyperbolic criticism follows a pattern of charged rhetoric on the left, who have continually painted conservatives such as President Trump and Elon Musk as fascists and dictators since the election last November.
Just last week, College Republican posters at Colby College were vandalized in an incident that generated national news, and resulted in a statement from Gustavo Buckett, Dean of Colby.
