Shenna Bellows, who blocked Trump from Maine’s primary ballot, used to run the state’s Holocaust center

(JTA) – When Shenna Bellows was appointed Maine’s secretary of state in 2020, she described how her previous job at a Holocaust education center made her especially suited to the role.

Bellows, the former executive director of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, tweeted that her work with Holocaust survivors “has taught me so much about how fragile and precious democracy is and about the importance of documenting and preserving our history to share with the future generations.”

Now, Bellows has issued what may be one of her state’s most consequential…