Maine Woman Reportedly Finds 250 Blank Ballots for Upcoming Election in Amazon Box
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat who tried to keep Trump’s name off the 2024 ballot, assured voters that safe and secure elections are her top priority.
A Newburgh, Maine, resident reportedly received a little something extra in her latest order from Amazon. The box, which appeared to have been opened and resealed, contained 250 blank ballots for the state’s upcoming election.
The Maine Wire reported:
The package arrived Tuesday looking beat up and re-taped, as if tampered with. Inside, along with household items, were bundles of ballots packaged in tamper-evident packs of 50 — the same format used for official shipments to local clerks. Election officials who reviewed photographs confirmed the documents appear to be authentic 2025 ballots.
Upon discovering the ballots, the woman immediately brought them to the town clerk’s office.
The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, told the media outlet, “I am greatly concerned for our state and its voting requirements.”
“When I opened it, there were 250 official State of Maine referendum ballots inside my box,” she said. “Thank goodness I am an honest citizen and immediately reached out to my town clerk and took the ballots to the town for safekeeping.”
WTF. A woman in Maine received 250 state election ballots packaged inside her Amazon delivery of food and toys.
This needs to be investigated IMMEDIATELY @libsoftiktok pic.twitter.com/DGsBIwOaiK
— Christi Johnston (@ChristiJoh48218) October 1, 2025
ABC8 in Portland reported that Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat who tried to keep President Donald Trump’s name off the ballot in 2024, has opened an investigation into this matter. In a Wednesday statement, she assured voters:
Safe and secure elections are my top priority. As soon as we became aware of allegations of ballots being received outside of the appropriate chain of custody, I immediately initiated an investigation through my Secretary of State’s law enforcement division. Law enforcement is working diligently to determine who is responsible, and they will be held accountable. We will not stop until we have answers.
Somehow, given Bellows’ reputation for hyper partisanship, her remarks do little to inspire confidence.
Few officials are questioning the authenticity of the ballots. Since they have been in the custody of the Newburgh town clerk’s office since Tuesday — and with the Secretary of State’s office investigating how they left the chain of custody — it is reasonable to assume that, unless and until we hear otherwise, the ballots are genuine.
This is a disturbing story. It leaves us to wonder if others may have received blank ballots. And if so, how many will simply fill them out and deposit them at one of the state’s numerous ballot drop boxes instead of returning them to the town clerk.
This incident comes ahead of a pivotal election in which residents will decide whether to require voter identification in the state. The measure, known as “Question One,” has sharply divided Mainers along party lines.
According to the Maine Wire, the state’s Republican Party Chairman Jim Deyermond says this situation goes “beyond the realm of accidental,” and has called upon the U.S. Department of Justice “to assume jurisdiction over this matter immediately.”
Deyermond added, “This incident should be treated as a potential crime and a crime scene.”
If the ballots are authentic, and, so far officials are proceeding as if they are, then I agree with him. This is a serious issue.
The state’s Democratic Party Chairman, Charlie Dingman, on the other hand, opposes Voter ID laws. In a May text message to voters, he wrote that if this initiative is approved, “Democrats could lose as many as 13,000 votes in future statewide elections.”
That’s an extraordinary admission.
The Wire noted that if Dingman is correct, 13,000 fewer Democratic votes “could reshape control of the state and even the U.S. Congress.”
In the clip below, Bellows dodges a reporter’s question about the stray ballots on Thursday morning.
BREAKING: @ShennaBellows dodges @TheMaineWire reporter @LocalPoliticsis in Waterville this AM when asked about the 250 Maine ballots that turned up in an Amazon package on Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/nl9658mEz0
— Steve Robinson (@BigSteve207) October 2, 2025
In the next clip, Bellows admits that it’s likely some non-citizens are registered to vote in the state.
Maine's Secretary of State admits she believes non-citizens are registered to vote in Maine. pic.twitter.com/ekw46kUJTe
— Steve Robinson (@BigSteve207) August 29, 2025
Additionally, the Wire reported that Bellows has repeatedly refused to cooperate with the DOJ’s efforts to clean up Maine’s voting rolls.
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Huh, did you get someone else’s order? And why the hell is Maine ordering ballots off of Amazon? Yes, that was sarcasm
Someone intercepted the box in route either at the DC or e route, put in the ballots then when the driver left the box another would come steal it for the ballots.
Mail ballots are the Devil’s play thing. I am convinced that’s what got Sundowner in the Oval Office. They don’t even need to be filled out as the numbers will be made up.
The Demoncrats LOVE vote by mail.
Niece in El Segundo got 4 ballots in the mail in 2020
you know and I know and they know we know
but its a case of Columbo
we know who the criminals are
but we need detective donald j columbo to arrest them
and just one more thing………..
Talk about Priming the pump.
“…assured voters that safe and secure elections are her top priority.”
“safe and secure elections”
You keep using that phrase, but I don’t think it means what you think it means.
In other news, the voters in Jackson County, Missouri overwhelmingly (82%) voted to recall their corrupt and malevolent county executive, Frank White (yes, that Frank White). A county first.
The main issue was White’s vociferous defense of an astronomical 2022 property tax increase that created a tsunami of lawsuits, state audits, court orders against White, etc.
I apologize for off-topic, but I wanted to give a shout out to voters, and the board of elections, for a free and fair election turnout to oust a tyrant.
We. The. People.
another solid excrement leftist only to be replaced by the same
Poor Frank. Now he’ll never get to third base.
If you are convicted of election fraud you should expect to receive a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
And if it were up to me, you’d serve your sentence in an ice cold 6’ x 9’ concrete cell somewhere high up in the Rockies.
Depriving a citizen of their vote – which is what happens when someone commits election fraud – is depriving him of his liberty.
And that must not be tolerated in the least.
You aren’t mean enough Peter, While in the cell I would subject them to continuous reruns of the spew,
Or save some $ by issuing cement shoes and a one way trip to the ocean.
Dems love a rigged game. It’s how they preserve democracy.
Cleaning up the voter registration rolls is the key issue in mitigation of election fraud. States gotta be prepared to hand over a searchable database of names, addresses and DL # that can then be cross checked with INS data, SSA data (birth/death) and property tax data (commercial address,.vacant lot or 12 folks claiming to live in a 1BR).
Also, the search criteria needs to include known illegal aliens and non-citizens. That foreign invader who was the Des Moines, Iowa Superintendent of Schools also apparently was voting by mail in Maryland elections.
Subotai Bahadur
Mail in ballots are likely fraudulent in all 50 States. Like electronic voting machine fraud, no court dates to touch the issues.
LOL, so this this the number of expect illegal ballots:
The state’s Democratic Party Chairman, Charlie Dingman, on the other hand, opposes Voter ID laws. In a May text message to voters, he wrote that if this initiative is approved, “Democrats could lose as many as 13,000 votesin future statewide elections.”
Oops, did he say that out loud?
“What the chairman MEANT to say was…”
I get no respect at all. I went to Amazon and searched for “maine state ballots.” They pretended they didn’t have any for sale! All I got was a hit on a book called “State of Maine. The Australian or Secret Ballot Law: As Amended,” and it didn’t even have a single review. How can ye have an election if ye don’ eatcher meat?
#VoteEarly
#VoteOften
#VoteDemocrat
#EndDemocracyNow!
Does this need a warning label? 🤔
“If we can’t cheat our people into office, we’ll have no reason to pretend to support democracy! Preserve our ability to cheat so we won’t have to come out openly against democracy!”
You should be suspicious of people that fight so hard to require ID to buy tobacco and fight so hard to not require ID to vote
Mail in ballots are not secure. As a former resident of Maine and Mass, and current resident of Oregon, I can attest that there is election misconduct with both voting and mail-in ballots.
As a member of the very, very small group of people that wrote parts of the page rendering software that turns digital page descriptions of ballots into streams of instructions to place printed dots on paper, and as a member of the even smaller group of people that worked on the firmware to actually cause the dots to be placed on the paper, I can assure you that it is possible, at no additional printing cost, to make highly secure ballots. My software *already* prints ballots, and those ballots are not secure.
Securing the ballots is a solved problem. Multiple changes would need to be made, and true security will require easy and fast third-party audits. But these ideas are well understood. The actual software implementation is well understood. Even the funding is well understood.
There is a moderately high intellectual cost, but that just requires a month’s study. There are physical security costs, but we already know how to print checks securely. Each of you probably has cashed one of the secure checks I helped create. As we all know, the political costs are essentially infinite. Nobody on the D side wants high security ballots that are easily audited by outside arbiters.
Insecure mail-in ballots (and paper ballot systems in general) are a choice, not an accident. Like driving drunk — without seat belts. Or fomenting a riot. Political systems in D locales are just not interested in secure voting.