Maine Secretary of State Gets Destroyed After Removing Trump From the Ballot

Red State ^ | 12/28/2023 | Bonchie

[SeekAndFind]

As RedState reported, another state has "removed" Donald Trump from the ballot following accusations of violating the 14th Amendment. I put the word "removed" in quotes for a reason, which I'll get to in a moment, but in the aftermath, the Maine Secretary of State behind the move is getting destroyed. 

I'll start with a more official-sounding condemnation from Sen. Thom Tillis before we get to the less kind responses.

Maine’s Democrat Secretary of State just removed Trump from the ballot. This is an egregious abuse of power and why I will be introducing the Constitutional Election Integrity Act as soon as Congress returns to session to stop these partisan officials and ensure any… https://t.co/evVu6bSv0H— Senator Thom Tillis (@SenThomTillis) December 29, 2023

The full post reads:

Maine’s Democrat Secretary of State just removed Trump from the ballot. This is an egregious abuse of power and why I will be introducing the Constitutional Election Integrity Act as soon as Congress returns to session to stop these partisan officials and ensure any constitutional challenge is only decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Tillis is correct in saying it's an egregious abuse of power. It's so broad and so arbitrary on the legal merits that if allowed to stand, Republican officials would have more than enough cause to remove Joe Biden from the ballot in their states. Again, that's a clue on what's really going on here. 

Naturally, Shenna Bellows, the secretary of state in question, had previously stumped for "voting rights" and demanded that others be allowed to vote for who they want. 

What a hashtag. https://t.co/s6s68brlnb— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 29, 2023

This is Shenna Bellows, the Maine Secretary of State who just removed Trump from the ballot.

She said the right of every American to vote freely and fairly is the premise of our democracy.

By her own standards, she is the real threat to our democracy!


pic.twitter.com/V66SWbVxUC— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 29, 2023

You see, voting is a "fundamental right," according to Bellows, unless we are talking about the right to vote for a presidential candidate she holds an inherent hatred of. In that case, it's fine to spit on the democratic process and strip that person from the ballot based on nothing more than feelings and twisted legal reasoning. 

Once again, an AWFL has decided to play authoritarian for the "greater good." They know best, and you don't dare suggest otherwise, you fascist. 

You couldn’t come up with a better stereotype.


pic.twitter.com/eybDuoPhsn— Ahmed Al Asliken 🕋☪️✈️ (@assliken) December 29, 2023

So why did I put "removed" in quotes at the beginning of this piece? I did so because it's obvious what's actually going on here. Just as with the Colorado Supreme Court ruling removing Trump from the ballot, Bellows stayed her own decision (meaning it doesn't go into effect), giving the final say to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

What does that tell you? It tells you that none of these cheap stunts are meant to succeed technically. It's essentially a foregone conclusion that the U.S. Supreme Court will not only keep the stays in place, but they will ultimately rule against the states trying to use the 14th Amendment without any due process to bar Trump from the ballot. 

In the end, Bellows doesn't believe she'll win. She just wants her name in lights while setting up the U.S. Supreme Court to play the bad guy for half the country. It's a tactic the Biden administration has used over and over, enacting illegal measures with an eye on passing the buck to the judiciary so they can cry foul when they lose. 

The same thing will happen here. The nation's high court will eventually make a common sense ruling to reinstate Trump on these ballots, and then the far left will call them tyrants who want to destroy democracy. What does that accomplish? It helps juice Democrat turnout. It's all so predictable, and it's a blatant abuse of the system to influence an election.

[DeplorablePaul]

Bellows has the classic lesbian monk hair do as well. They’re Satan’s monks.

[DeplorablePaul]

“What does that accomplish? It helps juice Democrat turnout”

There is currently a communist campaign to undermine the credibility of the SCOTUS and the constitution. The left wants to pressure the court to bow to the demands of the mob.

[sit-rep]

lol...

[chuckee]

The Maine legislature appointed this partisan bimbo to the job. Even some Maine dems in the legislature have criticized the decision. This might be a time for the Maine legislature to advance a motion to recall her. She is an incredibly stupid person if she thinks she is going to get away with this unilateral stunt to advance her political career

[CapnJack]

“I want to know one thing. If Trump is taken off the ballot by Supreme Court, can we still write him in when we go to vote?”

Yes, of course you can. You can write in anyone’s name. That is what I will do here in New Hampshire in January if they try this crap here.

These nut jobs “rulings” are just to remove the name from the ballot so no one sees it. It does not prevent you from writing in Trump’s name.

[Deplorable American1776]

I visited the Maine Republican Party website and they are fighting it along with RCV. I emailed my friend, who is a Maine State Representative (from a few small towns solidly Republican) last night, but didn’t get a reply, yet.

[wild74]

Maybe destroyed in the comments but she did what she meant to do make headlines

[telescope115]

More like Sheena Queen of the Bungle!

[Lakeside Granny]

The demonrats play hardball while the pubbies don’t show up to play at all.

But the funny thing is all of this crapola against Trump is only helping him.

Unintended consequences or do they REALLY think that ByeDone can beat Trump without the big cheat?

[Antoninus]

Can the Maine GOP simply change how they vote in the primaries to a caucus so that this Democrat idiot has no say in how Maine Republicans choose their candidate?

[Lakeside Granny]

From what I heard, she wasn’t VOTED in but appointed to the SoS job.

[Lakeside Granny]

ULTRA Pepe Lives Matter @PepeLivesMatter

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Notice how every state attempting to oust Trump from the ballot has a Karen as their Secretary of State. Can you even tell which person is not a secretary of state attempting to "save democracy by not allowing people to vote" here because this is hard. 🤪

[CraigEsq]

“I want to know one thing. If Trump is taken off the ballot by Supreme Court, can we still write him in when we go to vote?”

Yes, of course you can. You can write in anyone’s name.

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You can, but if the SCOTUS says he cannot be president under the 14th Amendment, the vote won’t count because he will be prohibited from serving, even if he were to win, unless 2/3 of both houses of congress allow him to.

[Svartalfiar]

Can the Maine GOP simply change how they vote in the primaries to a caucus so that this Democrat idiot has no say in how Maine Republicans choose their candidate?

I still don't quite understand why State government would be able to meddle in a primary, but not in a caucus? That really doesn't make sense...?

Course, I don't think gov't should be involved in non-elections anyway. The most they should be doing in primaries is providing locations (schools, firehouses, offices) for the parties to conduct their primaries. Shouldn't be any gov't actively involved at all.

[Fledermaus]

And Sen. Susan Collins commented....oh wait.

[Fresh Wind]

Shenna Bellows (D-Soros)

[4Liberty]

[Jane Long]

Buncha whiney loser Karens, for sure.

And, there is this, h/t mewzilla ... these blue state AGs must be truly worried, about Pres Trump....

Get a load of this, from October...

https://mainebeacon.com/no-excuse-absentee-voting-helps-build-voter-turnout-in-maine/

Maine has no excuse absentee...

It has RCV, RCV-enabled voting machines, allows the incarcerated to vote...

And Deep State still had Trump kicked off the ballot.

[Theodore R.]

People in ME rarely elect anyone good.

[Theodore R.]

In TX, Trump cannot be a write-in candidate unless he files as such 45 days before November 5.