A box of blank Maine absentee ballot return envelopes, part of a shipment of sensitive election materials that never arrived at the state’s Bureau of Corporations, Elections, and Commissions, was delivered to a residential house in Cambridge, Maryland.
That house is the listed headquarters address for the Center for Civic Design, a left-wing election-design nonprofit with documented funding ties to George Soros-backed grantmakers and the Arabella Advisors network, as well as direct connections to Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows.
State investigative records obtained by The Maine Wire and detailed in reporting by Steve Robinson show detectives recovered 498 of the 500 missing envelopes from the group. The investigation was closed without determining how or why the package was redirected. UPS told authorities a subpoena would be required for additional tracking and surveillance records.
The Attorney General’s office concluded there was not enough information to issue one. The case was marked closed pending further information, with officials concluding the reason for the redirection “remains speculative.” Bellows never publicly announced the end of the probe.
On September 10, 2025, Adam Graphic Corp. of North Attleboro, Massachusetts, shipped 62 boxes, each containing 500 blank absentee voter ballot return envelopes, to Maine election officials in Augusta.
By the next day, the elections office had received 61 of the boxes; one was missing. Around September 13, the box arrived at the Center for Civic Design’s Cambridge address, marked return-to-sender from a UPS facility in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
