Next week, Maine citizens will vote on a ballot initiative to strike down a Republican-passed bill to repeal election day voter registration in the state.
Question 1 will be on the ballot after thousands of volunteers collected over 50,000 signatures to call a citizen's veto on LD 1376, which narrowly passed the Republican-controlled statehouse in June. But as Mainers work the phones and knock on doors in droves this week -- a representative from the Yes On 1 campaign told ThinkProgress they had over 500 volunteers -- opponents of election day registration (EDR) have brought in a massive influx of secret conservative money to influence the vote. On Monday, the No On 1 campaign reported a massive advertising expenditure -- over $250,000 in total. Here is just a sampling of the new purchases: |