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Some in Maine upset over uncounted votes

By Shira Schoenberg

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 16, 2012

Glyneta Thomson, president of the Hancock County Republican Women in Maine, wants her friends and neighbors to have a voice when they vote in their state’s presidential preference poll during caucuses this Saturday. Unfortunately for Thomson, the Maine Republican Party already announced the results of the state’s caucuses last Saturday night – before numerous towns in Hancock County and elsewhere had voted. Thomson said the actions of the state party have discouraged new activists and disenfranchised potential voters.

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