Background
The Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, April 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM at
📍 State House, Room 437, Augusta, to discuss LD 1356 "An Act to Change the State's Method of Allocating Electoral Votes from a Congressional District Method to a Winner-take-all Method Contingent on the State of Nebraska Changing its Method of Allocating Electoral Votes."
If you want to read LD 1356, click here: https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?PID=1456&snum=132&paper=&paperld=l&ld=1356
In lieu of personally testifying in support of this bill, you may testify via Zoom, or by online testimony using the following link: https://www.mainelegislature.org/testimony/. Do this prior to the public hearing.
See below for EVERYTHING you're going to need to get this done, including testimony!
🔹 Steps to submit testimony online:
1️⃣ Click: "Public Hearing".
2️⃣ Choose a committee: "Veterans and Legal Affairs" - using the drop-down menu.
3️⃣ Choose date: April 14, 2025, 10:00 AM - using the drop-down menu.
4️⃣ Click: LD 1356
5️⃣ Enter your testimony in the box (or click the checkbox if you want to testify via Zoom).
6️⃣ Complete your contact information.
7️⃣ Click: "I'm not a robot"
8️⃣ Click: "Submit/Register".
You can find a video tutorial on 'Submitting Testimony in Maine" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYnhN4ZlpoQ
Action Time-Window
⚠️ Please consider taking action by April 12, 2025 to ensure it gets to the legislature ahead of the meeting.
Template
The below is a community member's testimony. Feel free to use it, something of your own, or something as simple as as "I oppose LD 1356, and "it ought not to pass." To get other wording ideas, as online testimony is submitted for this bill, you can see it here:https://legislature.maine.gov/ctl/VLA/04-14-2025?panel=1&time=0&sortdir=0&sortby=2 after clicking on the bill number.
I oppose LD 1356 “An Act to Change the State's Method of Allocating Electoral Votes from a Congressional District Method to a Winner-take-all Method Contingent on the State of Nebraska Changing its Method of Allocating Electoral Votes.”
Our current electoral vote system allows CD 1 and CD 2 to each have a voice in our Presidential elections. This is a fair and equitable method. CD 2 is rural and mainly conservative; CD 1 is urban and mainly progressive.
The existing system that has been in place since 1972, allows our vastly rural state to have a say in the Presidential election. A Republican candidate for President typically takes CD 2.
This bill has been put forward by legislators from largely urban centers, which in my opinion disenfranchises the voters living in rural areas of our state, such as CD 2.
I oppose LD 1356 and it “ought not to pass.”
Credit for the above goes to our community member Danny (@DannyEmerson61) from the South Berwick Republican Committee (@BerwickSouth).
Disclaimer
A community member has shared this personal template for those who wish to express their views on the bill(s) mentioned above. This template is not an official PTP position, and using it is entirely up to you. Pine Tree Patriots encourages civic participation but does not endorse or support specific actions or policies. Please remember this is an individual initiative.
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