Maine town and city clerks are not happy with all of the talk by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Maine governor Paul LePage about rigged elections.
Clerks spend a lot of time being trained to conduct elections and they take pride in their work. Lisa Goodwin, Bangor City Clerk and President of the more than 700 member Maine Town and City Clerks Association says it’s insulting to local election officials to have their integrity challenged.
“I don’t think that there is a clerk in this state that would even consider you know participating in any type of fraud,” Goodwin says. “I think it’s insulting; it’s insulting to our integrity.”
She says to rig an election would take an unbelievable conspiracy by poll workers and local election officials and it just doesn’t happen.
“There are checks and balances from start to finish all the way through,” she says. “We receive our ballots, you know we have to record how many ballots we have, how many we issue. Every, the chain of custody on every ballot has to be ordered. So, we take our jobs very seriously.”
Goodwin says most clerks could care less about who wins an election, they just want it to get over.
