Today is Tuesday and Election Day. Temperatures will be in the mid-50s throughout the state, with mostly sunny skies from north to south. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention will report the latest COVID-19 numbers from the weekend at around 9:30 a.m. Check out our tracker for more information.
Polling stations are required to be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Election Day, although they open earlier in some municipalities, including Bangor and Portland. If there are long lines at the polls, voters are entitled to cast their ballots so long as they were in line by 8 p.m.
Exam tables, heart defibrillators, some prescription drugs, IV solutions and wheelchairs — and much more — also have been snared in the supply chain troubles.
Members of the industry and its advocates dispute that the western Maine marijuana ring allegedly run by Lucas Sirois of Farmington showcases wider corruption in Maine’s medical marijuana industry.