A resident of Newburgh, Maine, received an unusual order from Amazon on Tuesday: a bag of rice, some paper plates, a lightsaber toy for her child, and 250 authentic State of Maine election ballots printed in advance of the Nov. 4, 2025, statewide election.
The Amazon package that arrived containing the ballots appeared beat-up and bore signs of having been re-taped, as if someone had opened the package, inserted the ballots, and then re-applied the package tape.
The ballots resemble the format of authentic Maine ballots and are packaged in tamper-evident batches of 50 ballots, just like the bundles typically shipped to municipal election officials. Multiple election officials who reviewed the images prior to publication of this story confirmed that the images appear to show authentic 2025 Maine ballots.
