02/12/2026
By Katherine Revello, Inside Investigator
Members of the Government Administrations and Election Committee (GAE) voted on February 11 to raise several bill concepts that, if passed, would likely impact the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The bills were raised as part of a slate of over two dozen concepts that have not yet been fleshed out into written bills. Several concepts did not include any indication of what eventual bills may contain.
Among the FOIA-related bills GAE members voted by voice vote to raise was a concept related to the ability to FOIA ballots. GAE co-chair Sen. Mae Flexer, D-Windham, said the bill will look “at the security and privacy of ballots” and whether or not FOIA has a “gray area” around access to those documents.
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