The Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions within the Maine Department of the Secretary of State (SOS) is responsible for elections, corporations, and a variety of central filing activities. The Bureau has significant contact with the public in many areas including the following: conduct of state elections; corporation filings; Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) filings; oversight of the Administrative Procedure Act (state agency rule-making); recording of appointments to state offices, boards, and commissions; secretariat to the Governor's Board on Executive Clemency; commissioning of notaries public; and the disclosure of financial information by state agency executive employees.
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Submissions from 2015
Maine Citizen’s Guide to the Referendum Election Tuesday, November 3, 2015, Maine Department of the Secretary of State
Submissions from 2012
Maine Voting Residence Fact Sheet, Elections Division of the Secretary of State
Submissions from 1926
The 1926 Primaries of the State of Maine, Maine Secretary of State