“While other states across the country may direct election officials to exclude voters from duly participating in our elections processes on the basis of scrivener’s quibbles, Maine does not.”

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, concluding that while some signatures for independent presidential candidate Cornel West were gathered fraudulently or included inaccurate, incomplete or illegible information, West still submitted a sufficient number of valid signatures to appear on Maine’s presidential ballot. (Maine Morning Star — Aug. 21, 2024)