Rep. Nina Milliken, D-Blue Hill, “strongly denies” the misdemeanor charge she faces over allegedly campaigning illegally at her town’s polling place during municipal elections earlier this year, her attorney said.

The response to the Bangor Daily News from the second-term lawmaker came after an electioneering charge was filed against her Friday in an Ellsworth court. The criminal complaint says Milliken violated a Maine law that prohibits attempts to influence another person’s decision on a candidate or ballot issue within 250 feet of a polling place on Election Day, and it accuses Milliken of doing that both inside and outside of the Blue Hill town office during municipal elections on April 4.

Milliken’s case is peculiar, as the 250-foot rule is rarely charged as a crime in Maine.

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