State of Maine Voter Guide

The data below explains how to register and vote in state elections. By voting, you lot are keeping Maine'southward commonwealth strong and standing a long history of citizen participation in the governing of our country and nation.

It's easy to take our right to vote for granted--to decide that voting isn't worth the endeavor or "doesn't make a difference."

The reality is that voting makes a tremendous difference. By casting a ballot, each denizen has a voice in deciding who will serve in role and what positions volition exist taken on major bug.

Voting is of critical importance to the forcefulness and vitality of our system of regime, and I congratulate y'all for recognizing its significance.

For our democracy to work, we must all participate in the procedure. Delight register and vote and encourage your family, friends and neighbors to do the same.

Maine Voter Guide

Oft ASKED QUESTIONS

Who tin can register and vote in Maine?

To register, y'all must be a The states citizen, at to the lowest degree 16 years of age to pre-annals to vote and take established a stock-still principal home in Maine.

To vote in a Referendum or Full general Election, you must exist registered in the community where you reside, and exist at to the lowest degree xviii years of age. A 17 year quondam may vote in a Primary Election, if that person will be 18 by the General Election.

How practise I register to vote?

You tin register to vote past filling out a voter registration card at your town office or city hall, through any Motor Vehicle co-operative office, in most land & federal social service agencies, or at voter registration drives.
You lot can besides download and print a Maine voter registration application here. Please note that both sides of the card volition print on 1 page.

Completed voter registration cards may be hand delivered or mailed to your boondocks part or city hall. Check this listing for telephone and mail contacts for each town and metropolis.

When you register for the showtime time in Maine, yous'll need to provide identity documents that testify you lot accept established your voting residence in the State of Maine.

The following documents are acceptable proof of identification for the purposes of registering to vote:

  • Government document or credential with photograph ID (i.e. driver'south license, State ID, valid U.South. Passport, military ID)
  • Government ID certificate/credential without photo (i.e. certified birth certificate or signed Social Security menu)
  • An official document that shows name and address of voter (i.east. eligibility for public benefits, utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck)
  • Student photograph ID from a state-approved public or private school or found of higher education in Maine
  • Verified unique identifier (Maine driver'south license number or concluding four numbers of Social Security Number)

For more information, visit our Maine Voting Residence Fact Canvas page.

Is there a deadline for registering?

At that place is no cut-off engagement for registering to votein person at your town office or metropolis hall. For the Nov. 8, 2022 General Election, voters tin can submit registration forms by mail or by tertiary person by the close of business on October. 18, 2022.

When is the next ballot?

Please visit the Upcoming Elections Page for more information regarding the side by side ballot.

Where do I get to vote?

Every town and city has its own places where people vote, called voting places or "the polls". Y'all can telephone call your town office or city hall to find out where you vote. Voting places open between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.1000., depending on the population of the boondocks. Local officials can give you the exact opening time for your community. All voting places close at eight:00 p.chiliad. on Election Twenty-four hour period. Yous can observe your polling place using the Voter Data Lookup Service

How do I mark a ballot?

The Country of Maine uses paper ballots that voters marker by filling in an oval next to their choices. There are as well instructions printed on each ballot.. If you take a question, ask an election official. If you make a fault, fold your ballot and give it to an election official. The election official will requite you another ballot. Some elections in Maine are conducting using ranked-pick voting. Learn more about ranked-choice ballots on our RCV Resources page.

Tin I take help voting?

Yes. If you need help reading or marking the ballot, you lot may ask a relative or friend for aid. The helper does not have to be a voter or old enough to vote. An ballot official can too aid you lot read or mark a ballot. Nevertheless, your employer or union official cannot assist you vote.

Do I demand to get to the polls on Election Day to vote?

No. Whatever registered voter may cast an absentee ballot instead of voting in person at the voting place.

Y'all practice not need to have a specific reason or be unable to vote at the voting place on Election Day to apply an absentee ballot. Larn more about absentee voting and how to asking your ballot on our Absentee Voting page.

For additional information, contact:

Office of the Secretarial assistant of State
Sectionalization of Elections
101 Land House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0101
(207) 624-7650
CEC.Elections@maine.gov