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NEWBURGH, Maine — Law enforcement is investigating an allegation that a private resident in Newburgh received hundreds of 2025 Maine election ballots in the mail, a state election official said.

The claims were published by the Maine Wire, the conservative media arm of the Maine Policy Institute, and stirred controversy before authorities had determined the facts of the strange allegation. The Wire article cited an unnamed woman who said she found the ballots in a package delivered to her home, and included pictures of a cardboard Amazon box containing multiple stacks of 2025 election ballots sealed in plastic, along with a package of rice, a toy lightsaber and paper bowls.

“We are aware of the serious allegations that packages of ballots were received by

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