[EL] Fwd: MAINE GOP UNCOVERS 19 ELECTION DAY REGISTRATIONS FROM ONE MAINE HOTEL

Fri Sep 9 12:33:31 PDT 2011

I disagree with the assumption that this small amount of information
indicates voter fraud. A Holiday Inn can be a residence. For just one
example, hotels/motels are frequent post-foreclosure residences. And it
wouldn't be unusual for a community of people in a similar situation to
gravitate towards the same hotel/motel.  If someone is living in a Holiday
Inn, does his/her right to vote depend upon whether s/he votes again in
subsequent years? Of course not.

I do not have any knowledge about the Holiday Inn in this press release, but
I am offering an alternative story that could share these facts. However, as
it turns out, there's another plausible explanation...

"A simple telephone call to the Holiday Inn Express, where the voters had
been living, revealed the truth. The voters were college students who were
being housed at the Holiday Inn Express as their dormitory and they were
legal voters in Maine. Their medical school had been destroyed in Hurricane
Ivan and they had relocated to Maine to finish out their classes at St.
Joseph's College."
http://www.mainedems.org/571.html

It seems Webster's attack on student voters continues.

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:47 PM, <JBoppjr at aol.com> wrote:

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>     This looks like voter fraud that would have been prevented by requiring
> a voter ID.  It is doubtful that the people who voted for the people
> registered at this hotel would have had an ID that would match the hotel
> address and the voter's name.  Jim Bopp
>
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> From: mainegop at mainegop.com
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> *MAINE GOP UNCOVERS 19 ELECTION DAY REGISTRATIONS FROM ONE MAINE HOTEL*
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> AUGUSTA-An examination of the statewide voter list by the Maine Republican
> Party has revealed 19 individuals who registered to vote on Election Day,
> November 2, 2004, using the Holiday Inn Express in South Portland as their
> residence.  According to the Maine GOP research, all 19 individuals
> registered and voted on Election Day that year and have not voted since.
>   [image: holiday inn express]
>
> South Portland Holiday Inn Express
>
>
>
> "Mainers should be very concerned that 19 individuals, who all listed the
> same hotel address, were able to register to vote and cast a ballot all on a
> busy Election Day.  Our town clerks are already overworked on Election Day,
> how can we expect them to verify that these people are legitimate Maine
> residents and haven't already voted elsewhere?" said Charlie Webster,
> Chairman of the Maine Republican Party.
>
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>
> Registration cards for the 19 hotel guests were provided by the South
> Portland Town Clerk's office and can be seen here<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=szrdsybab&et=1107545020985&s=5266&e=001dDFhEa4v2vg2IDduJ29ngOTXs8dczF8rBEXk0oRWJNz50PoOFAwNrU5scplv4utygFYbvXHa-I8auMxTxOTI1mkmy5fRTyhJv4-VUbrrqJYQ4LMaPiP05wBmCh61ONx2PeMAlm6TfJZRLCv7BYZyz-Hh_9xyFmppc2b0E1bBH20kvPO4hYptXDa3FNZjqVqrkZEiaDGd6k0=>.  All
> 19 cards list 303 Sable Oaks Drive, the South Portland Holiday Inn Express,
> for the section titled "Street or Location Address (Where you live)."  Six
> of the voting hotel guests also provide the hotel room number on the cards.
>
>
>
> According to many of the handwritten cards, hotel guest-voters were
> previously registered in states including California, Massachusetts, New
> Jersey, Maryland, Oklahoma, Texas, Florida, Illinois and
> Tennessee.  According to the Maine Republican Party voter database, these
> individuals only voted in the highly contested 2004 general election.  As of
> the end of August, all 19 individuals were still listed as active voters in
> the Maine Secretary of State voter database.
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>
>
> "Our town clerks need the time and tools to make sure our elections results
> are honest and every voter is an actual Maine resident.  With individual
> hotel-guests voting in elections, it is clear why 42 other states have an
> inspection period for voter registration and do not allow same day voter
> registration.
>
>
>
> "We need to ask ourselves if someone is qualified to be a Maine voter just
> because they can say, 'I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night?'"
> Webster said.
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