These voters don't come back on their own.
On June 9, 156,084 Mainers voted for Graham Platner. The result was thrown out. Since then those voters have been saying, in public, exactly what they intend to do in November.
The deadline to declare passed on August 25. Graham did not file. These are the voters everyone arguing about this race has been talking past.
“I’m not voting.”
These are public comments from people who voted for Graham. Nobody talked them into this and nobody can talk them out of it by scolding them. They are not undecided. They are gone.
“I'd rather not vote or write in even if it's not valid than give the MDP installed candidate my vote.”
“I will not vote for any other Democrat or Republican candidate. We may have to go all the way down to realize we need change.”
“Not voting … how's that for ya and I hate Collins w a vengeance. but I'm not having my vote stolen.”
“Im not voting, and I unenrolled myself last week.”
“we will write him in or not vote … So no matter who THEY decide is going to lose. I'm writing him or not voting.”
“I unenrolled this morning.”
And these are people who did not just leave a candidate. They left the party that threw the result out, and they filed the paperwork to prove it.
“I will changing my registration to an independent. I am very disappointed with the way Graham was treated.”
“I unenrolled this morning still will vote for Graham even as a write in. Both parties are messed up.”
“All Democrats who supported Graham Platner should waste no time ditching the Democratic Party and registering as Unenrolled.”
“… met my mother at a Democratic Party rally and I am no longer a Democrat!!! They have failed us in total!!!”
“I'm writing him in regardless because clearly my vote doesn't matter anyway … I'm not a Democrat. I voted for Graham Platner and will continue to do so”
“I'm voting for the peoples choice CANDIDATE..NOT the FASCIST DNC CANDIDATE..and leaving the Democratic party.”
And it hasn’t worn off.
The comments above are from the first week of August. These are from this week, on a different platform, from people who have never met each other. Three weeks on, nobody has talked them round.
“I've talked with former Dems since who have unenrolled in disgust for how that went down.”
“I changed my registration to 'No Party Preference' after Platner”
“I have said from the day he suspended his campaign that I was going to waste my first choice vote as a write in for Platner.”
“I've had enough. I'm writing in Platner's name”
Public comments posted in Graham Platner supporter groups on Facebook, captured August 4, 2026, and public posts on X captured August 25, 2026. Each screenshot is cropped to a single post or comment. Last names are pixelated; first names and handles are left as posted.
He can’t win it if he doesn’t file. He knows that.
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.
Graham did not file.
Which means he cannot win this seat, no matter how many people write his name down. He knows that, and he chose it anyway, out of concern for what a fight over it would cost Maine.
So write him in — and mark Troy Jackson second.
Both. Not one or the other. Write in Graham to say what the primary already said, and mark Jackson second so the vote does the work of beating Susan Collins.
That is what keeps it from being a spoiler.
A first choice that cannot win does not take anything from Jackson — your ballot moves to your second choice. Leave that second choice blank and it does. So do not leave it blank.
Not our claim — here is a Maine labor journalist, arguing against this effort, describing the same thing:
“Even if people wrote in Platner as their first choice, it would be considered a “skipped vote” under our ranked choice voting law because he’s not an official write-in. Their second choice would instead be counted (likely Troy Jackson).”
Write in Graham. Mark Troy Jackson second. Never rank Susan Collins. Do those three things and there is no spoiler — there is only a number the party has to look at, and a Senate seat they still lose.
Don’t take our word for any of it — read the statutes yourself, quoted in full beside plain English with screenshots from the Legislature’s own website. And if you are deciding how to mark your ballot, confirm the current rules with the Maine Secretary of State’s Division of Elections, which is the authority. We are not.
We asked. He decided. That was always his to decide.
He told us he didn’t plan to file. We heard him, and we were not going to pretend a group of volunteers on the internet knew his life better than he did. He has been pushed around enough by people who wanted something from him. We were not going to be one more.
What we wanted him to see is above, and it has not changed. Not our opinions — theirs. These neighbors were not waiting for permission to be angry. They are already unenrolled, already staying home, already done.
We understood why. Filing would have meant another fight, and he decided what that fight would cost Maine. We respect that. We asked once more before 5 p.m. He did not file. That is the end of it, and we go to work on November either way.
That was the whole ask. He decided. We’re still here, and we’ll still be working to beat Collins in November.
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