The Kennebec Journal (daily newspaper for Maine’s capital city, Augusta) has this article about LD 547, the bill to improve write-in voting. It is very unusual for the problems of write-in candidates to receive any publicity at all. LD 547, the brainchild of independent U.S. Senate candidate Herb Hoffman, has a legislative hearing on March 20. Hoffman became interested in the problems of getting write-in votes counted, after he was removed from the ballot last year and had to carry on his campaign for U.S. Senate as a write-in candidate.