Democracy Forum 3/20/26: Constitutional Crisis: All Hands on Deck to Protect Our Elections

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of protecting elections in Maine amidst potential threats, featuring insights from key guests.

Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine Production Assistance: Linda Washburn, Joel Mann Democracy Forum: Participatory Democracy, encouraging citizens to take an active role in government and politics. This month: Maine has some of the best-run, highest-turnout elections in the country. We want to hold onto that, so we’re taking election threats seriously. We’ll talk about how elections work now and why we should be confident in our elections. But we’ll also talk about what can go wrong and how we can prepare. Guest/s: Shenna Bellows, Maine Secretary of State. Patti DuBois, City Clerk, Waterville, Maine. Archon Fung, Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. To learn more about this topic: Visit LWVME.org About the host: Ann Luther currently serves as Treasurer of the League of Women Voters of Maine and leads the LWVME Advocacy Team. She served as President of LWVME from 2003 to 2007 and as co-president from 2007-2009. The post Democracy Forum 3/20/26: Constitutional Crisis: All Hands on Deck to Protect Our Elections first appeared on…

People in this episode

Host: Ann Luther

Guests: Shenna Bellows, Patti DuBois, Archon Fung

Topics covered

• Constitutional Crisis
• Elections
• Participatory Democracy

Keywords

• Maine
• League of Women Voters
• Election threats
• Democratic Governance

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Democracy Forum 3/20/26

Places: Maine, Waterville

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