Officials to Mainers: Check your new districts before election time

With new maps for the next decade of elections finalized in Maine, election officials are urging voters to make sure they are up-to-date on any changes.

Maine has an independent redistricting commission made up of an equal number of Democrats and Republicans and an independent chair, and they finalized both the congressional and legislative voting district maps last fall.

Shenna Bellows, Secretary of State, said it’s important for voters to find out if the numbers of their districts have changed before this year’s elections, including the primaries in June and the general...