boyscout399
Regular Member
There is no Maine law preventing firearms in poling places. If the poling place is a school, then it would fall under the no guns in schools law. My poling place is in my town hall and I have open carried to every election in the last 3 years. Maine preemption law ensures that localities cannot make an ordinance or rule preventing someone from voting because of a firearm, and http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/17/title17sec2931.html says that interfering with a right (voting and carrying a firearm in this case) is a class D crime. In Maine a Class D crime is punishable with up to 364 days in jail. What that election official did was criminal, and that warden should have arrested him on the spot.