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

Fri Sep 9 14:23:12 PDT 2011

I do think Holiday Inn Express should get rid of its "Free Continental
Breakfast and Voter Registration" promotion, though.

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FROMONE MAINE HOTEL

It's also worth noting that, while Justin and Megan have raised much
more important points about the efficacy of the voter fraud claims, if
this had happened in Indiana their voter ID law wouldn't have anything
to do with it.  In Indiana the address on the ID does not need to match
the address where the voter is registered.  

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FROM ONE MAINE HOTEL

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%20Vote
r%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> 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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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
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"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
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Election Day, how can we expect them to verify that these people are
legitimate Maine residents and haven't already voted elsewhere?" said
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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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