[EL] Fwd: MAINE GOP UNCOVERS 19 ELECTION DAY REGISTRATIONS FROM ONE MAINE HOTEL
Justin Levitt
levittj at lls.edu
Fri Sep 9 12:42:37 PDT 2011
And to that point, six years ago, the Brennan Center released this
Investigator's Guide to Voter Fraud
<http://www.truthaboutfraud.org/pdf/Investigator%27s%20Guide%20to%20Voter%20Fraud.pdf>.
It lists a few questions that would be useful to ask _before_ accusing
specific individuals of federal crimes.
Justin
On 9/9/2011 12:33 PM, Megan Donovan wrote:
> 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
> <mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com>> wrote:
>
> 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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> September 9, 2011
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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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
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> 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.
>
> "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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