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So Much for the 'Will of the Voter'

Amy Curtis
Amy Curtis  |  May 28, 2026 7:00 PM

The Left loves to play Calvinball.

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, which hails from Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip, Calvinball is a game where players invent and rewrite the rules as they play the game.

Democrats are masters at it. Just a few weeks ago, they were all up in arms over the Virginia Supreme Court and, later, the U.S. Supreme Court, overturning the Virginia Democrats' redistricting referendum. That referendum, from its inception, was unconstitutional. Despite that, Democrats asked the Virginia Supreme Court not to rule on the measure until after the April 21 vote. The referendum narrowly passed, and it meant that about half the state's voters would be disenfranchised, with only one Republican seat remaining.

When the courts rightly threw out the referendum, the Democrats moaned about how the 'illegitimate' courts were undermining the 'will of the voter.' Never mind the fact that, just a few years prior, the voters in Virginia chose to establish a non-partisan redistricting committee that gave the state an even, representative split. 

That was, of course, the Democrats' game all along. Ask the court not to rule on the referendum until after it passes, then attack the court for undermining democracy.

But, because the rules are made up and the points don't matter, when the will of the voter doesn't mesh with the Democratic Party agenda, it no longer matters. We saw that for decades, going back to the numerous states that voted to protect marriage as an institution between one man and one woman. The will of those voters didn't matter. Democrats went all the way to the Supreme Court to undermine it.

In California, voters more recently voted in favor of Proposition 36, which would toughen penalties for crime in the state. Governor Gavin Newsom didn't like that legislation, and chided California voters for even getting it on the ballot. When it passed, Newsom and the California Democrats simply chose not to fund the measure, rendering it moot.

Now, in Maine, Democrats are once again thwarting the will of the voters because the voters dared challenge the Left's latest sacred cow: trans athletes. Citizens wanted a referendum put on the ballot to ban boys from playing in girls' sports.

That referendum was removed after Secretary of State Shenna Bellows discarded just enough signatures to invalidate the measure.

Bellows is the same Secretary of State who took President Trump off the ballot a few years ago, so forgive me if I don't find this highly suspect.

Here's more (emphasis added):

A Maine initiative intended to limit transgender students’ ability to participate in sports has been removed from the ballot because of invalid signatures, the secretary of state ruled Tuesday.

The proposal from parents’ group Protect Girls Sports in Maine was slated to go before voters in November. It would have asked voters if they wanted to require public schools to restrict access to bathrooms and sports based on the gender denoted on a child’s birth certificate.

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who is running for governor as a Democrat, said Tuesday her staff found that more than 12,000 signatures on the petition for the referendum were invalid. That leaves the petition drive a few hundred short of the 67,682 required for the initiative to make the ballot, Bellows said.

Gee, how convenient. Just a few hundred short.

If so many people support the trans agenda, why are Maine Democrats preventing a vote on the issue? It's because the trans agenda — especially boys in girls' sports — is an 80-20 issue, and Democrats are on the losing side. When that happens, they can't possibly let people vote freely and democratically. They might not get their way!

This is also why Republicans need to put more time and effort into Secretary of State and State Attorney General races. Democrats know these positions wield tremendous power, as Bellows has shown us twice now. It is in the best interests of Republicans to get into and hold those offices. If a Republican were Maine's Secretary of State, this measure would be on the November ballot.