Out of every place in America a lost box of Maine ballot envelopes could end up, it landed at a house in Cambridge, Maryland. The house is the headquarters of a left-wing nonprofit that designs ballots for a living, and the money behind it traces back to George Soros's network.

Nobody can explain how it got there, and Maine has stopped trying.

On September 10, 2025, a printing company in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, shipped 62 boxes of absentee ballot envelopes to Maine's elections office in Augusta. Each box held 500 envelopes. Sixty-one boxes arrived.

These are the official envelopes Maine voters use to send back their absentee ballots. Voters seal the ballot inside and sign the affidavit printed on the outside. A blank envelope isn't a vote, but it's an official piece of the election, and states are supposed to track every one.

Maine reported the box missing the next day. Two days later, it showed up 600 miles away, at the Center for Civic Design.

The printer, Adam Graphic Corp., says the group was never its customer and it never authorized a shipment there. Maine's Secretary of State's office says it doesn't work with the group "as a vendor for anything."

When the box arrived, it no longer carried the printer's label. It had a new one from "UPS Overgoods" in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, the unit that handles packages UPS can't deliver the normal way. The new label named the Center for Civic Design as the destination. Nobody has explained how UPS's lost-and-found came up with that address.

That same month, another Maine ballot shipment went astray. A woman in Newburgh opened an Amazon package and found 250 real absentee ballots inside. UPS blamed its own workers, and Maine stopped using UPS to deliver ballots.

The Center for Civic Design didn't report the box right away. An employee told authorities on October 3 that it had arrived around September 13, so it sat there for about three weeks. The employee estimated it held about 100 envelopes. When investigators came to collect it, they recovered 498. The other two were never found.

Follow the money behind the Center for Civic Design and you find the Arabella Advisors network, the progressive money machine wealthy liberal donors use to fund causes without their names attached. The group has taken $500,000 from Arabella's Hopewell Fund and $414,000 from its New Venture Fund. In 2023, the same year Hopewell paid the Center for Civic Design, George Soros's Foundation to Promote Open Society gave Hopewell $5 million, reportedly for Marc Elias's Democracy Docket legal fund. The group's president, Sean Wang, has held leadership roles in the Arabella network.

There's more. The group has taken $1.4 million from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, the outfit behind Mark Zuckerberg's 2020 "Zuckerbucks." Its vice chair is Kathy Boockvar, who ran Pennsylvania's elections in 2020 and resigned the next year after her office botched a constitutional amendment.

Maine's Secretary of State, Democrat Shenna Bellows, knows the group. When her office rolled out automatic voter registration, a law she had co-sponsored as a state senator, the Center for Civic Design tested the registration materials with voters in Augusta.

Bellows still wasn't eager to name it. At first she called it "an out-of-state private organization." In January, legislators asked her and her deputy which group had received the box. Neither could remember. The public finally got the name through a records request her office took 228 days to answer.

"Official election materials don't belong in the hands of an outside advocacy group," said state Rep. David Boyer.

The investigation went nowhere. UPS said it would hand over its tracking records and surveillance footage only with a subpoena. Democratic Attorney General Aaron Frey's office declined to issue one, saying "there was not enough information." Nobody pulled the records, including a tracking history that had changed from showing the box entering delivery to showing only that a label had been created.

On April 2, the state quietly closed the case.

Two envelopes are still missing. The investigation into how the other 498 got to a Soros-linked nonprofit in Maryland has been closed since April.