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Ellsworth reported that it was missing 250 absentee ballots on the same day a Newburgh woman said she found the same amount in her Amazon package, Maine’s top elections official told reporters Monday.

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat who is running for governor, did not specifically say the ballots found were those that were missing from Ellsworth as that is still part of an ongoing criminal investigation involving police from her department as well as the FBI and other agencies. She also intimated that it could have been a deliberate action.

“This year, it seems that there may have been attempts to interrupt the distribution of ballots about materials, but we are stronger and better than anyone who tries to do our process harm,” she said

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