Our series of Your Vote 2012 interviews with the men and women running for national office begins with Steve Woods an Independent candidate for the U.S. Senate in the November Election. He is a Maine business owner and currently is Chairman of the Yarmouth Town Council.

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There are six candidates running for the U.S Senate in Maine this fall to fill the seat being vacated by Republican Olympia Snowe. Among them is 52-year-old Yarmouth businessman Steve Woods, who is running as an independent. Woods says he wants to challenge Mainers to become more involved in the democratic process, which he believes is broken. MPBN's State House Bureau Chief A.J. Higgins has this Your Vote 2012 profile.