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VoteRiders CEO and Executive Director Lauren Kunis released the following statement celebrating the decisive rejection of Question 1 in Maine.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":25468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,280],"tags":[737,726,739,393,328],"class_list":["post-25467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-digest","category-blog","tag-absentee-voting","tag-maine","tag-question-1","tag-voter-id-law","tag-voteriders","state-me"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nQuestion 1 Rejected in Maine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With the resounding defeat of the anti-voter referendum Question 1, Maine voters sent a clear message to the state and our country.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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