Make every vote count.
They threw 156,084 votes in the trash. We’re going to pick every one of them back up.
August 25Graham did not file. Here is what his voters have been saying, and what it means for your ballot in November.Read it →We read the law. Writing Graham in does not waste your ballot.
A screen walkthrough of the statutes: what happens to a ballot that writes Graham in first and ranks Troy Jackson second. 2 min 46 sec, captioned.
Every sentence in the film is on this site next to the statute it came from — read the law yourself.
THROWN OUT.
156,084 Mainers voted for Graham. The party tossed it.
On June 9, Graham Platner won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate with 72.1% of the vote — 156,084 people. Then the party threw the result out. Nobody got a say in that. A vote is a promise between neighbors. They broke it. We keep it.
You can check the count yourself on Ballotpedia.
| Candidate | Share | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Graham Platner ✓ | 72.1% | 156,084 |
| Janet Mills | 19.2% | 41,644 |
| David Costello | 8.1% | 17,560 |
| Andrea LaFlamme | 0.5% | 1,114 |
Source: Ballotpedia, first-round results — checked July 31, 2026
In Maine, the people get the last word.
- WRITE IN GRAHAM PLATNER
- VOTE TROY JACKSON
Ranked-choice voting: your #2 still counts
Every voter who comes back to write Graham in, and marks Troy second, is one more ballot Collins has to beat. Your first choice sends the message. Your second choice keeps the seat.
You rank. You don’t pick.
Maine counts by ranked choice. Writing in Graham as your first choice does not cost you a second choice — you still get to mark one.
One ranking is affected. Only one.
Graham did not file, so a write-in for him is not counted for him. That is the whole effect. A ballot is only set aside on two skipped rankings in a row, and one is never enough.
Your #2 counts for Troy.
If nobody clears 50% outright, your ballot counts for the highest-ranked candidate still in the race — Troy Jackson, if you marked him second. Not a later round. That one. Leave the second choice blank and it counts for nobody.
Don’t take our word for it. Read the law yourself— every step quoted in full, with screenshots from the Legislature’s own website.
We’re volunteers from Maine and surrounding states.
We refuse to forget that 156,084 Mainers’ votes were thrown out.
Our first goal was to organize, build momentum, and officially urge Graham Platner to register as a write-in candidate for the U.S. Senate. He did not file. What is left was always ours to do: (1) write in the candidate who actually won the primary race, and (2) get every Platner voter to rank Troy Jackson 2nd to improve our chances of beating Susan Collins in November.
The political establishment in Washington has failed us, and it’s time to take our voice and our lives back. We believe that this moment in history, and this Senate race, are key to making that happen.
We:
- are infuriated that 156,084 primary votes in the Democratic Primary election for Senator of ME were thrown out by the Democratic Party.
- refuse to sit quietly while Graham Platner was stripped from the Senate race under suspicious timing, omitted details, and zero opportunity to defend himself. Graham put his life on the line serving this country and returned with PTSD. PTSD is a service-related illness, not a character flaw — and using it to orchestrate a political removal is disgraceful.
- understand that writing Graham in, with Troy Jackson ranked 2nd, is not a spoiler and does not split the vote. It brings back voters who would otherwise stay home, and every one of those ballots counts against Susan Collins.
Two things, right now.
1. Sign the petition.
The open letter asked Graham to declare a write-in candidacy. He decided not to, and that was always his to decide. The names are still worth adding — they are the count of how many of us are still here, and we are not done.
Sign the petition2. Join the group.
The Facebook group is where the work actually gets planned — postcards, signs, phone calls, and people figuring out what their own town needs. Anyone can join.
Join the Facebook groupGot a question, or want to help with something specific? Write to us at hi@WriteInGrahamForME.com.
Say it everywhere.
Tap a tag to copy it. Download a card and post it. Tell one neighbor today — that is the whole plan: sign, share, write in.
Every card carries WriteInGrahamForME.com and hi@WriteInGrahamForME.com, so anyone who sees it can find us.
