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• Anonymous

  Wow politics

• Anonymous

  So he says these people committed fraud, but does not have the data that would actually prove any of them actually committed voter fraud?

  Did he just pick 206 names at random? What was the criteria for getting on that list?

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.” Which appears to be a list of names with nothing to verify his allegations of fraud. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

  Reminds me of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s list of Communists, which he invented on the spot to justify his Red-baiting. He was later denounced by Margaret Chase Smith.

  From http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_Smith_Declaration.htm

  “she asked to see the documents he was citing as evidence. Reading through McCarthy’s materials, she failed to see their relevance to his charges. The more she read, and the more she listened to McCarthy, the less comfortable she felt. Smith began to question the “validity, accuracy, credibility, and fairness” of his charges and came to believe that McCarthy was creating an atmosphere of political fear… in 1954 she had the satisfaction of casting a vote for McCarthy’s censure and effectively ending his campaign of falsehood and intimidation–what she had so effectively denounced as a political attempt to ride “the Four Horsemen of Calumny–Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”
   

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.” Which appears to be a list of names with nothing to verify his allegations of fraud. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

  Reminds me of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s list of Communists, which he invented on the spot to justify his Red-baiting. He was later denounced by Margaret Chase Smith.

  From http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_Smith_Declaration.htm

  “she asked to see the documents he was citing as evidence. Reading through McCarthy’s materials, she failed to see their relevance to his charges. The more she read, and the more she listened to McCarthy, the less comfortable she felt. Smith began to question the “validity, accuracy, credibility, and fairness” of his charges and came to believe that McCarthy was creating an atmosphere of political fear… in 1954 she had the satisfaction of casting a vote for McCarthy’s censure and effectively ending his campaign of falsehood and intimidation–what she had so effectively denounced as a political attempt to ride “the Four Horsemen of Calumny–Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”
   

• Anonymous

  What Mr. Webster alleges may or may not be true. But for the Chairman of the Maine Republican Party to claim a lack of resources hindered him in providing more specific data doesn’t pass the straight face test.   

• Anonymous

  What Mr. Webster alleges may or may not be true. But for the Chairman of the Maine Republican Party to claim a lack of resources hindered him in providing more specific data doesn’t pass the straight face test.   

• Anonymous

  This is definitely one of those… wait and see moments.  I’m not sure this isn’t just a political ploy to support a point of view or if it has any merit to it at all… time will tell. 

• Anonymous

  This is definitely one of those… wait and see moments.  I’m not sure this isn’t just a political ploy to support a point of view or if it has any merit to it at all… time will tell. 

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.” Which appears to be a list of names with nothing to verify his allegations of fraud. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

  Reminds me of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s list of Communists, which he invented on the spot to justify his Red-baiting. He was later denounced by Margaret Chase Smith.

  From http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_Smith_Declaration.htm

  “she asked to see the documents he was citing as evidence. Reading through McCarthy’s materials, she failed to see their relevance to his charges. The more she read, and the more she listened to McCarthy, the less comfortable she felt. Smith began to question the “validity, accuracy, credibility, and fairness” of his charges and came to believe that McCarthy was creating an atmosphere of political fear… in 1954 she had the satisfaction of casting a vote for McCarthy’s censure and effectively ending his campaign of falsehood and intimidation–what she had so effectively denounced as a political attempt to ride “the Four Horsemen of Calumny–Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”
   

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.” Which appears to be a list of names with nothing to verify his allegations of fraud. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

  Reminds me of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s list of Communists, which he invented on the spot to justify his Red-baiting. He was later denounced by Margaret Chase Smith.

  From http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_Smith_Declaration.htm

  “she asked to see the documents he was citing as evidence. Reading through McCarthy’s materials, she failed to see their relevance to his charges. The more she read, and the more she listened to McCarthy, the less comfortable she felt. Smith began to question the “validity, accuracy, credibility, and fairness” of his charges and came to believe that McCarthy was creating an atmosphere of political fear… in 1954 she had the satisfaction of casting a vote for McCarthy’s censure and effectively ending his campaign of falsehood and intimidation–what she had so effectively denounced as a political attempt to ride “the Four Horsemen of Calumny–Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”
   

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.” Which appears to be a list of names with nothing to verify his allegations of fraud. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

  Reminds me of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s list of Communists, which he invented on the spot to justify his Red-baiting. He was later denounced by Margaret Chase Smith.

  From http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_Smith_Declaration.htm

  “she asked to see the documents he was citing as evidence. Reading through McCarthy’s materials, she failed to see their relevance to his charges. The more she read, and the more she listened to McCarthy, the less comfortable she felt. Smith began to question the “validity, accuracy, credibility, and fairness” of his charges and came to believe that McCarthy was creating an atmosphere of political fear… in 1954 she had the satisfaction of casting a vote for McCarthy’s censure and effectively ending his campaign of falsehood and intimidation–what she had so effectively denounced as a political attempt to ride “the Four Horsemen of Calumny–Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”
   

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.” Which appears to be a list of names with nothing to verify his allegations of fraud. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

  Reminds me of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s list of Communists, which he invented on the spot to justify his Red-baiting. He was later denounced by Margaret Chase Smith.

  From http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_Smith_Declaration.htm

  “she asked to see the documents he was citing as evidence. Reading through McCarthy’s materials, she failed to see their relevance to his charges. The more she read, and the more she listened to McCarthy, the less comfortable she felt. Smith began to question the “validity, accuracy, credibility, and fairness” of his charges and came to believe that McCarthy was creating an atmosphere of political fear… in 1954 she had the satisfaction of casting a vote for McCarthy’s censure and effectively ending his campaign of falsehood and intimidation–what she had so effectively denounced as a political attempt to ride “the Four Horsemen of Calumny–Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”
   

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.” Which appears to be a list of names with nothing to verify his allegations of fraud. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

  Reminds me of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s list of Communists, which he invented on the spot to justify his Red-baiting. He was later denounced by Margaret Chase Smith.

  From http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_Smith_Declaration.htm

  “she asked to see the documents he was citing as evidence. Reading through McCarthy’s materials, she failed to see their relevance to his charges. The more she read, and the more she listened to McCarthy, the less comfortable she felt. Smith began to question the “validity, accuracy, credibility, and fairness” of his charges and came to believe that McCarthy was creating an atmosphere of political fear… in 1954 she had the satisfaction of casting a vote for McCarthy’s censure and effectively ending his campaign of falsehood and intimidation–what she had so effectively denounced as a political attempt to ride “the Four Horsemen of Calumny–Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”
   

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.” Which appears to be a list of names with nothing to verify his allegations of fraud. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

  Reminds me of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s list of Communists, which he invented on the spot to justify his Red-baiting. He was later denounced by Margaret Chase Smith.

  From http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_Smith_Declaration.htm

  “she asked to see the documents he was citing as evidence. Reading through McCarthy’s materials, she failed to see their relevance to his charges. The more she read, and the more she listened to McCarthy, the less comfortable she felt. Smith began to question the “validity, accuracy, credibility, and fairness” of his charges and came to believe that McCarthy was creating an atmosphere of political fear… in 1954 she had the satisfaction of casting a vote for McCarthy’s censure and effectively ending his campaign of falsehood and intimidation–what she had so effectively denounced as a political attempt to ride “the Four Horsemen of Calumny–Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”
   

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.” Which appears to be a list of names with nothing to verify his allegations of fraud. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

  Reminds me of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s list of Communists, which he invented on the spot to justify his Red-baiting. He was later denounced by Margaret Chase Smith.

  From http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_Smith_Declaration.htm

  “she asked to see the documents he was citing as evidence. Reading through McCarthy’s materials, she failed to see their relevance to his charges. The more she read, and the more she listened to McCarthy, the less comfortable she felt. Smith began to question the “validity, accuracy, credibility, and fairness” of his charges and came to believe that McCarthy was creating an atmosphere of political fear… in 1954 she had the satisfaction of casting a vote for McCarthy’s censure and effectively ending his campaign of falsehood and intimidation–what she had so effectively denounced as a political attempt to ride “the Four Horsemen of Calumny–Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”
   

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.” Which appears to be a list of names with nothing to verify his allegations of fraud. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

  Reminds me of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s list of Communists, which he invented on the spot to justify his Red-baiting. He was later denounced by Margaret Chase Smith.

  From http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_Smith_Declaration.htm

  “she asked to see the documents he was citing as evidence. Reading through McCarthy’s materials, she failed to see their relevance to his charges. The more she read, and the more she listened to McCarthy, the less comfortable she felt. Smith began to question the “validity, accuracy, credibility, and fairness” of his charges and came to believe that McCarthy was creating an atmosphere of political fear… in 1954 she had the satisfaction of casting a vote for McCarthy’s censure and effectively ending his campaign of falsehood and intimidation–what she had so effectively denounced as a political attempt to ride “the Four Horsemen of Calumny–Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”
   

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.” Which appears to be a list of names with nothing to verify his allegations of fraud. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

  Reminds me of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s list of Communists, which he invented on the spot to justify his Red-baiting. He was later denounced by Margaret Chase Smith.

  From http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_Smith_Declaration.htm

  “she asked to see the documents he was citing as evidence. Reading through McCarthy’s materials, she failed to see their relevance to his charges. The more she read, and the more she listened to McCarthy, the less comfortable she felt. Smith began to question the “validity, accuracy, credibility, and fairness” of his charges and came to believe that McCarthy was creating an atmosphere of political fear… in 1954 she had the satisfaction of casting a vote for McCarthy’s censure and effectively ending his campaign of falsehood and intimidation–what she had so effectively denounced as a political attempt to ride “the Four Horsemen of Calumny–Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”
   

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.” Which appears to be a list of names with nothing to verify his allegations of fraud. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

  Reminds me of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s list of Communists, which he invented on the spot to justify his Red-baiting. He was later denounced by Margaret Chase Smith.

  From http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_Smith_Declaration.htm

  “she asked to see the documents he was citing as evidence. Reading through McCarthy’s materials, she failed to see their relevance to his charges. The more she read, and the more she listened to McCarthy, the less comfortable she felt. Smith began to question the “validity, accuracy, credibility, and fairness” of his charges and came to believe that McCarthy was creating an atmosphere of political fear… in 1954 she had the satisfaction of casting a vote for McCarthy’s censure and effectively ending his campaign of falsehood and intimidation–what she had so effectively denounced as a political attempt to ride “the Four Horsemen of Calumny–Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”
   

• Anonymous

  Where’s the “beef”, Charlie?  What a sorry excuse for fabricated headlines …

• Anonymous

  Where’s the “beef”, Charlie?  What a sorry excuse for fabricated headlines …

• Anonymous

  “Carey also criticized Webster for failing to provide any further details such as: How many of the 206 students actually voted twice? How many of them registered in Maine on Election Day? How many officially declared residency in Maine?Asked for specifics, Webster said that he did not have the resources to get that data.“I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.”So… in fact, this so-called “information” may have nothing to do with the issue at hand.  More irrelevant minutiae from the great minds running the state Republican party.

• Anonymous

  “Carey also criticized Webster for failing to provide any further details such as: How many of the 206 students actually voted twice? How many of them registered in Maine on Election Day? How many officially declared residency in Maine?Asked for specifics, Webster said that he did not have the resources to get that data.“I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.”So… in fact, this so-called “information” may have nothing to do with the issue at hand.  More irrelevant minutiae from the great minds running the state Republican party.

• http://twitter.com/rklindell R. Kenneth Lindell

  When I turned eighteen (many moons ago) I was a student at Bates College.  My parents (both US citizens) lived in the United Kingdom, and I was a permanent resident of the UK, and also a US citizen.  I registered and then voted (mostly for Republican candidates) in Lewiston Maine.
  I didn’t vote twice.  I wasn’t resident anywhere else where I could have voted. Was my vote illegal? 

• http://twitter.com/rklindell R. Kenneth Lindell

  When I turned eighteen (many moons ago) I was a student at Bates College.  My parents (both US citizens) lived in the United Kingdom, and I was a permanent resident of the UK, and also a US citizen.  I registered and then voted (mostly for Republican candidates) in Lewiston Maine.
  I didn’t vote twice.  I wasn’t resident anywhere else where I could have voted. Was my vote illegal? 

• http://twitter.com/rklindell R. Kenneth Lindell

  When I turned eighteen (many moons ago) I was a student at Bates College.  My parents (both US citizens) lived in the United Kingdom, and I was a permanent resident of the UK, and also a US citizen.  I registered and then voted (mostly for Republican candidates) in Lewiston Maine.
  I didn’t vote twice.  I wasn’t resident anywhere else where I could have voted. Was my vote illegal? 

• http://twitter.com/rklindell R. Kenneth Lindell

  When I turned eighteen (many moons ago) I was a student at Bates College.  My parents (both US citizens) lived in the United Kingdom, and I was a permanent resident of the UK, and also a US citizen.  I registered and then voted (mostly for Republican candidates) in Lewiston Maine.
  I didn’t vote twice.  I wasn’t resident anywhere else where I could have voted. Was my vote illegal? 

• http://twitter.com/rklindell R. Kenneth Lindell

  When I turned eighteen (many moons ago) I was a student at Bates College.  My parents (both US citizens) lived in the United Kingdom, and I was a permanent resident of the UK, and also a US citizen.  I registered and then voted (mostly for Republican candidates) in Lewiston Maine.
  I didn’t vote twice.  I wasn’t resident anywhere else where I could have voted. Was my vote illegal? 

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.

  Republicans: once again creating a mountain out of a molehill, if the molehill exists at all. Since he offered no proof whatsoever, why would anyone (other than viewers of Fox News – always on the lookout for the next fringe-dweller wacko theory) put any stock in his comments? But that’s ok – keep him in that position and watch the blunders come one after another….

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.

  Republicans: once again creating a mountain out of a molehill, if the molehill exists at all. Since he offered no proof whatsoever, why would anyone (other than viewers of Fox News – always on the lookout for the next fringe-dweller wacko theory) put any stock in his comments? But that’s ok – keep him in that position and watch the blunders come one after another….

• Anonymous

  Me thinks that this is just a rant to support the two week waiting period the tea bag/Koch/Heritage Club crowd are looking for to keep the young, educated folks from voting.

• Anonymous

  Me thinks that this is just a rant to support the two week waiting period the tea bag/Koch/Heritage Club crowd are looking for to keep the young, educated folks from voting.

• Anonymous

  Me thinks that this is just a rant to support the two week waiting period the tea bag/Koch/Heritage Club crowd are looking for to keep the young, educated folks from voting.

• Anonymous

  Me thinks that this is just a rant to support the two week waiting period the tea bag/Koch/Heritage Club crowd are looking for to keep the young, educated folks from voting.

• Anonymous

  Me thinks that this is just a rant to support the two week waiting period the tea bag/Koch/Heritage Club crowd are looking for to keep the young, educated folks from voting.

• Anonymous

  i agree that the fraud is likely to be in the 1000′s, not a couple hundred, adn I would bet that the fraud was in favor of the Dem’s.  Ther is nothing wrong with having to pre-register before election day.

• Anonymous

  i agree that the fraud is likely to be in the 1000′s, not a couple hundred, adn I would bet that the fraud was in favor of the Dem’s.  Ther is nothing wrong with having to pre-register before election day.

• Anonymous

  i agree that the fraud is likely to be in the 1000′s, not a couple hundred, adn I would bet that the fraud was in favor of the Dem’s.  Ther is nothing wrong with having to pre-register before election day.

• Anonymous

  i agree that the fraud is likely to be in the 1000′s, not a couple hundred, adn I would bet that the fraud was in favor of the Dem’s.  Ther is nothing wrong with having to pre-register before election day.

• Anonymous

  Are we surprised???  Not for a minute~

• Anonymous

  Charles McCarthy…I mean Webster…may be onto something here.

• Anonymous

  I agree that, on the surface, this appears a little Joe McCarthyish(I have in my hand a list…).  Hopefully someone in the Secretary of State’s office investigates the allegations, and then that the facts discovered speak for themselves.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GBHAWY2DGMGS5W3VHFYLBPN7AU Jay C

  Firast, was this done deliberately?  206 hardly says that this rampant.  It’s a small percentage of the number of voters that voted in the last election and would not have changed results.

• Anonymous

  Clearly it’s those liberal elitist University students who are behind the massive voter fraud in Maine…I wonder why is Webster complaining if his guy LePage won the supposedly voter-fraud-plagued election?

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GBHAWY2DGMGS5W3VHFYLBPN7AU Jay C

  Why doesn’t he look into a family that claims residency in Florida so their kids can get in state tuition and then they vote in the Maine election for governor?  Who’s fraudulently voting?

• listenuppeople

  It’s about time!!! The Attorney Generals Office will get the treasonist criminals trying to overthrow the Government  from the inside with election voter fraud….  The whole point of extending election days to 2 weeks was for this express purpose… I was talking to this gentleman and was pretending to belong to he political idealog at a tree hugging walk and he told me he voted six times in 2 weeks.. in six different towns.. He claimed to have voted in NH durning the primarys and  Presidental Elections…along with Maine… My question is why do people who claim to know whats best for everyone,,Cheat so much…

• Anonymous

  So it comes back to he doesn’t know but he thinks it must be happening … sad.

• Anonymous

  Oh how the Republican Party has changed. Senator Smith was one of the first to endorse Senator Barry Goldwater, a real conservative, in his bid for President. Isn’t it strange that the four things she denounced in her “ Declaration of Conscience” speech seem to be the bedrock of today’s tea party. 

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GBHAWY2DGMGS5W3VHFYLBPN7AU Jay C

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.

  Then get off your lazy butt and do some hard digging and let us know what you find…my guess?  Absolutely nothing…

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GBHAWY2DGMGS5W3VHFYLBPN7AU Jay C

  Then let’s null and void the last governor’s election and have a redo….

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Kobuk-Volbane/100002408203386 Kobuk Volbane

  I talk to a lot of people who claim a lot of things, too. I don’t necessarily believe them.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Kobuk-Volbane/100002408203386 Kobuk Volbane

  I talk to a lot of people who claim a lot of things, too. I don’t necessarily believe them.

• Anonymous

  Republicans are sore losers to be after the next election. Your all out for another 50 years. You couldn’t just easy in, you all are showing your pesonal greed immediately.
  How in heck could you pick someone like LePage as your best choice? OMG.
  The democrats are about in the same boat. I don’t trust any of you. What the heck has happened in Augusta? It appears to me everyone is out for what suits themselves.
  The choice that has to be made by the voter is who they think is the most honest for the people of Maine, not just for the rich. So far, the choices have been wrong.

• Anonymous

  Republicans are sore losers to be after the next election. Your all out for another 50 years. You couldn’t just easy in, you all are showing your pesonal greed immediately.
  How in heck could you pick someone like LePage as your best choice? OMG.
  The democrats are about in the same boat. I don’t trust any of you. What the heck has happened in Augusta? It appears to me everyone is out for what suits themselves.
  The choice that has to be made by the voter is who they think is the most honest for the people of Maine, not just for the rich. So far, the choices have been wrong.

• Anonymous

  Should have been because you vote republican. LOL

• Anonymous

  Should have been because you vote republican. LOL

• Anonymous

  Should have been because you vote republican. LOL

• Anonymous

  Should have been because you vote republican. LOL

• Anonymous

  Should have been because you vote republican. LOL

• Anonymous

  Should have been because you vote republican. LOL

• Anonymous

  Should have been because you vote republican. LOL

• Anonymous

  Should have been because you vote republican. LOL

• Anonymous

  Should have been because you vote republican. LOL

• Anonymous

  Should have been because you vote republican. LOL

• Anonymous

  Should have been because you vote republican. LOL

• Anonymous

  Should have been because you vote republican. LOL

• Anonymous

  Should have been because you vote republican. LOL

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  Charlie Webster has raised the absurdity level in political bald face lies to the same level Maine raised its stupidity by allowing a false bleating “patriot” like Lepage to get anywhere near a public office. “Working people vote Republican” only after they believe lies like Charlie is spewing now. How many signs for LePiggy did I see across rural working Maine and how many now realize that it is corporate America that told them that. LePage is their whipping boy and Mr. Webster is a snake oil fear salesman of pathetic script.

• Anonymous

  HiGH bILLybEE, grate too sea thAT yoo AINT disabLed nad illlitrut no MOre

• Anonymous

  HiGH bILLybEE, grate too sea thAT yoo AINT disabLed nad illlitrut no MOre

• Anonymous

  I disagree, I think the vote fraud is likely to be 1-3 people, not even a couple hundred. And I would bet that the fraud was in favor of the Republicans.

  Your assertion and mine are both equally true in absence of any proof whatsoever.

• Anonymous

  I disagree, I think the vote fraud is likely to be 1-3 people, not even a couple hundred. And I would bet that the fraud was in favor of the Republicans.

  Your assertion and mine are both equally true in absence of any proof whatsoever.

• Anonymous

  I disagree, I think the vote fraud is likely to be 1-3 people, not even a couple hundred. And I would bet that the fraud was in favor of the Republicans.

  Your assertion and mine are both equally true in absence of any proof whatsoever.

• Anonymous

  I disagree, I think the vote fraud is likely to be 1-3 people, not even a couple hundred. And I would bet that the fraud was in favor of the Republicans.

  Your assertion and mine are both equally true in absence of any proof whatsoever.

• Anonymous

  I disagree, I think the vote fraud is likely to be 1-3 people, not even a couple hundred. And I would bet that the fraud was in favor of the Republicans.

  Your assertion and mine are both equally true in absence of any proof whatsoever.

• Anonymous

  Fraud is hard to detect because our current laws actually make it very difficult to uncover an action that is meant to be deceptive.

  So I guess because it is never uncovered there is no tax, Medicare, welfare, corporate, or Social Security fraud either. Why not take simple, sensible measures to ensure our voting process remains sound?

• Anonymous

  It is actually very difficult based upon our current system to even uncover fraud. Thats why photo ID’s and 2-day pre-registration are sensible steps towards ensuring the integrity of the voting process.

• Anonymous

  I think you’re right. If , as the Chairman of the Maine Republican Party claims, the 2010 election was tainted with the massive fraud he claims then the results do need to be tossed out and a new election held. I think all Mainers owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Webster for bringing this terrible fraud to our attention. I look forward to Mr. Webster requesting that the 2010 election results be found to be invalid and calling for a new election.

• Anonymous

  I think you’re right. If , as the Chairman of the Maine Republican Party claims, the 2010 election was tainted with the massive fraud he claims then the results do need to be tossed out and a new election held. I think all Mainers owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Webster for bringing this terrible fraud to our attention. I look forward to Mr. Webster requesting that the 2010 election results be found to be invalid and calling for a new election.

• Anonymous

  I think you’re right. If , as the Chairman of the Maine Republican Party claims, the 2010 election was tainted with the massive fraud he claims then the results do need to be tossed out and a new election held. I think all Mainers owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Webster for bringing this terrible fraud to our attention. I look forward to Mr. Webster requesting that the 2010 election results be found to be invalid and calling for a new election.

• Anonymous

  I think you’re right. If , as the Chairman of the Maine Republican Party claims, the 2010 election was tainted with the massive fraud he claims then the results do need to be tossed out and a new election held. I think all Mainers owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Webster for bringing this terrible fraud to our attention. I look forward to Mr. Webster requesting that the 2010 election results be found to be invalid and calling for a new election.

• Anonymous

  I think you’re right. If , as the Chairman of the Maine Republican Party claims, the 2010 election was tainted with the massive fraud he claims then the results do need to be tossed out and a new election held. I think all Mainers owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Webster for bringing this terrible fraud to our attention. I look forward to Mr. Webster requesting that the 2010 election results be found to be invalid and calling for a new election.

• Noah

  Charlie Webster “believes” the state election system is rife with abuse…but, he admits he has nothing to back up that statement.

  But we live in an age where anyone can blurt out anything they like about the president, or, anyone else and get headlines and sound bites.

  As someone else mentioned, Joe “Tail Gunner” McCarthy stood Washington on its rear with his flaming accusations of anything red was communist.  And yes indeed, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine set Joe straight. 

  Joe believed anyone who ever mentioned communism was a Red. Anyone who checked out a meeting was also ready for Joe’s chopping block.  Dozens were blacklisted, their lives ruined.

  Charlie Webster needs to get his facts together before accusing anyone of voter fraud. Hopefully, the media will demand to see those facts before he gets another headline or sound bite.

• Anonymous

  Republicans are behind election fraud, which is a real problem.

  Read bradblog. We haven’t had an honest election in decades. Don’t blame the American people for continually voting against their own interests, it is the system. Democrats have not lifted a finger to do anything about it.

• Anonymous

  Is Massachusetts a fever swamp of right-wing reactionary legislators? Voters there are required to register at least 20 days before Election Day.

  Is there evidence that the poor, the elderly, and the disabled have been disenfranchised from the electoral process in Massachusetts? I think not.

  The Left’s hysteria over the repeal of same-day registration in Maine suggests that liberals have abused the process here. They regard their own base as incompetent and stupid, too inept to get themselves registered before the big day. We have elections with painful regularity: at least every two years. Once you’re registered, it’s a done deal, for life, unless you move. What is the problem? Are all the Left’s voters morons?

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XJJB4XHAMZLXQVNALEYLZQBU4A Paul H

  I guess you’re saying those young, educated folks aren’t smart enough to register BEFORE the election as opposed to same day??

• Anonymous

  Sensible measures would be votes tabulated at the precinct. If bags of ballots have had seals broken…a new election should be held. Voters do not have the right to see the ballots in NH, a make or break state in the primaries.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MTC57ZVP2MOL3D7UTJU3ZXSNLY JARODY

  Full video of the press conference here:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXqx9yB-tTc

• Anonymous

  Voter fraud is a serious charge and if confirmed then there should be criminal prosecution.  It is a threat to our democracy and should not be condoned nor tolerated no matter which group commits it. It should not be belittled or laughed at.  There are men and women who have died to protect that right and if someone is diluting your vote by commiting voter fraud then the response should be to support the investigation of it rather then attacking the accuser.

• Anonymous

  Republicans don’t like for students , minorities or poor people to vote. They tend to vote democratic. 

• Anonymous

  Photo ids will not help election fraud. Voter fraud is rare. The republicans are worried that they will have to back away from the trough.

• Anonymous

  That same family has a house in Conneticut.That is where they go on weekends.

  Source: New York Times

  Gov. Paul LePage of Maine happened to be waiting for his flight at Augusta State Airport on a recent Saturday when the weekend crush began. A turboprop Pilatus PC-12 carrying Melissa Thomas, her daughter, her daughter’s friend and a pile of lacrosse equipment took off for their home in Connecticut, following the girls’ three-week stay at Camp All-Star in nearby Kents Hill, Me. Shortly after, a Cessna Citation Excel arrived, and a mother, a father and their 13-year-old daughter emerged carrying a pink sleeping bag and two large duffel bags, all headed to Camp Vega in Fayette.

  Wonder if BDN will cover this story. It is on progressive blogs as well as the New York Times.

• Anonymous

  While you’re at it, check the nursing homes too.

• Anonymous

  Charlie Webster and his half truths are a bit much to take.  Many students may have originally registered in their home states, but once at college registered and voted in their college state, which is perfectly legal.   I, myself, have registered wherever I have lived.  It doesn’t mean that I have voted twice or anything of the sort.  It appears that his study is too simple minded and misleading which does not appear to bother Webster at all.  This is all the more reason to overturn the most recent law.  When the leader of the Republican party puts out information that means nothing, this is reason enough to be worried about the intent.

• Anonymous

  You don’t have to go to the universities to uncover voter fraud…follow ACORN and watch the voter intimidation.

• Anonymous

  Wisconsin is doing very well with recalling state legislators. ….despite problems with republican controlled polling sites. lots of irregularities were found in their last election. Nothing was done about it.

• Anonymous

  Do you side with Mr. Webster in his claims of voter fraud in the 2010 election?

• Anonymous

  Election fraud is always republican shenanigans. Voter fraud is rare.

• Anonymous

  Election fraud is always republican shenanigans. Voter fraud is rare.

• Anonymous

  Election fraud is always republican shenanigans. Voter fraud is rare.

• Anonymous

  Election fraud is always republican shenanigans. Voter fraud is rare.

• Anonymous

  Election fraud is always republican shenanigans. Voter fraud is rare.

• Anonymous

  Election fraud is always republican shenanigans. Voter fraud is rare.

• Anonymous

  Election fraud is always republican shenanigans. Voter fraud is rare.

• Anonymous

  We need a photo ID to drive, fly, open a bank account, and a whole lot more, so get-er-done already…!

  For one election,,,, mandate that a driver’s licenses, passport, or some form of official photo identification be necessary to vote— and then, on the ballot, ask the question “do you favor providing identification to vote”

  If someone doesn’t have a drivers license, or a passport, a “dispensation” could be provided for that extremely small group of voters. Such a “dispensation application” would be checked against existing driver’s licenses and passports data bases,,, that process has become a lot cheaper than
  you think….

  It should be noted that the majority of US citizens have, utilize and rely on some form of official photo ID to prove who they are. If an elderly or special needs person needs an official form of identification, then a cost could be incurred, or absorbed by the state.

  If it fails, then drop the requirement…!
   

  .

• Anonymous

  We need a photo ID to drive, fly, open a bank account, and a whole lot more, so get-er-done already…!

  For one election,,,, mandate that a driver’s licenses, passport, or some form of official photo identification be necessary to vote— and then, on the ballot, ask the question “do you favor providing identification to vote”

  If someone doesn’t have a drivers license, or a passport, a “dispensation” could be provided for that extremely small group of voters. Such a “dispensation application” would be checked against existing driver’s licenses and passports data bases,,, that process has become a lot cheaper than
  you think….

  It should be noted that the majority of US citizens have, utilize and rely on some form of official photo ID to prove who they are. If an elderly or special needs person needs an official form of identification, then a cost could be incurred, or absorbed by the state.

  If it fails, then drop the requirement…!
   

  .

• Anonymous

  We need a photo ID to drive, fly, open a bank account, and a whole lot more, so get-er-done already…!

  For one election,,,, mandate that a driver’s licenses, passport, or some form of official photo identification be necessary to vote— and then, on the ballot, ask the question “do you favor providing identification to vote”

  If someone doesn’t have a drivers license, or a passport, a “dispensation” could be provided for that extremely small group of voters. Such a “dispensation application” would be checked against existing driver’s licenses and passports data bases,,, that process has become a lot cheaper than
  you think….

  It should be noted that the majority of US citizens have, utilize and rely on some form of official photo ID to prove who they are. If an elderly or special needs person needs an official form of identification, then a cost could be incurred, or absorbed by the state.

  If it fails, then drop the requirement…!
   

  .

• Anonymous

  We need a photo ID to drive, fly, open a bank account, and a whole lot more, so get-er-done already…!

  For one election,,,, mandate that a driver’s licenses, passport, or some form of official photo identification be necessary to vote— and then, on the ballot, ask the question “do you favor providing identification to vote”

  If someone doesn’t have a drivers license, or a passport, a “dispensation” could be provided for that extremely small group of voters. Such a “dispensation application” would be checked against existing driver’s licenses and passports data bases,,, that process has become a lot cheaper than
  you think….

  It should be noted that the majority of US citizens have, utilize and rely on some form of official photo ID to prove who they are. If an elderly or special needs person needs an official form of identification, then a cost could be incurred, or absorbed by the state.

  If it fails, then drop the requirement…!
   

  .

• Anonymous

  We need a photo ID to drive, fly, open a bank account, and a whole lot more, so get-er-done already…!

  For one election,,,, mandate that a driver’s licenses, passport, or some form of official photo identification be necessary to vote— and then, on the ballot, ask the question “do you favor providing identification to vote”

  If someone doesn’t have a drivers license, or a passport, a “dispensation” could be provided for that extremely small group of voters. Such a “dispensation application” would be checked against existing driver’s licenses and passports data bases,,, that process has become a lot cheaper than
  you think….

  It should be noted that the majority of US citizens have, utilize and rely on some form of official photo ID to prove who they are. If an elderly or special needs person needs an official form of identification, then a cost could be incurred, or absorbed by the state.

  If it fails, then drop the requirement…!
   

  .

• 525_44

  Asked for specifics, Webster said that he did not have the resources to get that data.

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.
  ——————————-
  Wow. When I worked on papers in college I never would have passed and graduated if all I did was find and prove the easiest ‘things’ I could find.  <:-I
   
  I guess all that time to write those  well researched papers were not necessary after all…

• Anonymous

  I hope you turned tree hugging guy into the authorities. It has been republicans who steal entire elections for some time now. Electronic voting machines don’t allow a recount. 

  Who knows , with democrats turning on Obama , it might be democrats next time around.

• http://www.facebook.com/Christopher.Blackwell1945 Christopher Blackwell

  We can’t have those students voting, they might vote Democrat. That is what this is about, not voter fraud. Denying people their right to vote is a very old Republican practice. Of course doing so is also against the Constitution of the United Staes which the Republicans seem to hate with a passion. I have seen them do this in state after state. shame on  this guy for trying to pull that old worn out stunt.

• Anonymous

  Ironically, some 15 or so years ago, when LePage’s chief campaign strategist Brent Littlefield was head of UMaine’s student government, and when voting was off-campus and required transportation for many Orono students, there was a minor scandal over somehow allowing only Republican-leaning students to use student government-paid for vans and/or cars on election day. This could be tracked down in the pages of the student newspaper. Democrat-leaning Orono students claimed to have been deprived of transportation to those off-campus polls. If someone found this story it would, to say the least, counter Mr. Webster’s charges.

• Anonymous

  Ironically, some 15 or so years ago, when LePage’s chief campaign strategist Brent Littlefield was head of UMaine’s student government, and when voting was off-campus and required transportation for many Orono students, there was a minor scandal over somehow allowing only Republican-leaning students to use student government-paid for vans and/or cars on election day. This could be tracked down in the pages of the student newspaper. Democrat-leaning Orono students claimed to have been deprived of transportation to those off-campus polls. If someone found this story it would, to say the least, counter Mr. Webster’s charges.

• Anonymous

  Ironically, some 15 or so years ago, when LePage’s chief campaign strategist Brent Littlefield was head of UMaine’s student government, and when voting was off-campus and required transportation for many Orono students, there was a minor scandal over somehow allowing only Republican-leaning students to use student government-paid for vans and/or cars on election day. This could be tracked down in the pages of the student newspaper. Democrat-leaning Orono students claimed to have been deprived of transportation to those off-campus polls. If someone found this story it would, to say the least, counter Mr. Webster’s charges.

• Anonymous

  Noticed the US doesn’t allow exit polls after people vote? It proves whether an election is fair in third world countries. Recent election in Wisconsin, exit polls were banned. Wisconsin is having a lot of voting irregularities. 

  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8611

• Anonymous

  Noticed the US doesn’t allow exit polls after people vote? It proves whether an election is fair in third world countries. Recent election in Wisconsin, exit polls were banned. Wisconsin is having a lot of voting irregularities. 

  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8611

• Anonymous

  Noticed the US doesn’t allow exit polls after people vote? It proves whether an election is fair in third world countries. Recent election in Wisconsin, exit polls were banned. Wisconsin is having a lot of voting irregularities. 

  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8611

• Anonymous

  Noticed the US doesn’t allow exit polls after people vote? It proves whether an election is fair in third world countries. Recent election in Wisconsin, exit polls were banned. Wisconsin is having a lot of voting irregularities. 

  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8611

• Anonymous

  Hearing claims of election fraud are very common. Usually by the losers. However when the winning party raises claims of election fraud I would have a tendency to find it more believable. The citizens of Maine owe Mr. Webster a debt of gratitude for the countless hours he has spent in painstakingly researching his claims. He has done the right thing in this matter. Now that he has uncovered the fact that the 2010 election was a fraud then it is up to the citizens of Maine to again do the right thing and demand that the 2010 election results be declared null and void and demand that a new election be held. Thank you Mr. Webster for doing the right thing.

• Anonymous

  Hearing claims of election fraud are very common. Usually by the losers. However when the winning party raises claims of election fraud I would have a tendency to find it more believable. The citizens of Maine owe Mr. Webster a debt of gratitude for the countless hours he has spent in painstakingly researching his claims. He has done the right thing in this matter. Now that he has uncovered the fact that the 2010 election was a fraud then it is up to the citizens of Maine to again do the right thing and demand that the 2010 election results be declared null and void and demand that a new election be held. Thank you Mr. Webster for doing the right thing.

• Anonymous

  Hearing claims of election fraud are very common. Usually by the losers. However when the winning party raises claims of election fraud I would have a tendency to find it more believable. The citizens of Maine owe Mr. Webster a debt of gratitude for the countless hours he has spent in painstakingly researching his claims. He has done the right thing in this matter. Now that he has uncovered the fact that the 2010 election was a fraud then it is up to the citizens of Maine to again do the right thing and demand that the 2010 election results be declared null and void and demand that a new election be held. Thank you Mr. Webster for doing the right thing.

• Anonymous

  Hearing claims of election fraud are very common. Usually by the losers. However when the winning party raises claims of election fraud I would have a tendency to find it more believable. The citizens of Maine owe Mr. Webster a debt of gratitude for the countless hours he has spent in painstakingly researching his claims. He has done the right thing in this matter. Now that he has uncovered the fact that the 2010 election was a fraud then it is up to the citizens of Maine to again do the right thing and demand that the 2010 election results be declared null and void and demand that a new election be held. Thank you Mr. Webster for doing the right thing.

• Anonymous

  Hearing claims of election fraud are very common. Usually by the losers. However when the winning party raises claims of election fraud I would have a tendency to find it more believable. The citizens of Maine owe Mr. Webster a debt of gratitude for the countless hours he has spent in painstakingly researching his claims. He has done the right thing in this matter. Now that he has uncovered the fact that the 2010 election was a fraud then it is up to the citizens of Maine to again do the right thing and demand that the 2010 election results be declared null and void and demand that a new election be held. Thank you Mr. Webster for doing the right thing.

• Anonymous

  Hearing claims of election fraud are very common. Usually by the losers. However when the winning party raises claims of election fraud I would have a tendency to find it more believable. The citizens of Maine owe Mr. Webster a debt of gratitude for the countless hours he has spent in painstakingly researching his claims. He has done the right thing in this matter. Now that he has uncovered the fact that the 2010 election was a fraud then it is up to the citizens of Maine to again do the right thing and demand that the 2010 election results be declared null and void and demand that a new election be held. Thank you Mr. Webster for doing the right thing.

• Anonymous

  Hearing claims of election fraud are very common. Usually by the losers. However when the winning party raises claims of election fraud I would have a tendency to find it more believable. The citizens of Maine owe Mr. Webster a debt of gratitude for the countless hours he has spent in painstakingly researching his claims. He has done the right thing in this matter. Now that he has uncovered the fact that the 2010 election was a fraud then it is up to the citizens of Maine to again do the right thing and demand that the 2010 election results be declared null and void and demand that a new election be held. Thank you Mr. Webster for doing the right thing.

• Anonymous

  Hearing claims of election fraud are very common. Usually by the losers. However when the winning party raises claims of election fraud I would have a tendency to find it more believable. The citizens of Maine owe Mr. Webster a debt of gratitude for the countless hours he has spent in painstakingly researching his claims. He has done the right thing in this matter. Now that he has uncovered the fact that the 2010 election was a fraud then it is up to the citizens of Maine to again do the right thing and demand that the 2010 election results be declared null and void and demand that a new election be held. Thank you Mr. Webster for doing the right thing.

• Anonymous

  “…206 individuals whom he believes committed voter fraud in the 2010 election.”   I believe many things about different people; I don’t attack them and make it pulically known and send lists about it unless I have some FACTS.  Once again guilty until proven innocent;  even in something like voter fraud we throw out the judicial portion of the legal system.  Really sad.  Get your ducks in a row, find some actual evidence you can spout off, then publicize it.

  And what if this caused there to be a re-election, and LePage loses?  Be very careful of that if you start digging this hole, you may fall in it head first.

• PabMainer

  Thank goodness someone is finally on to this voter problem and these young scoundrels…..such disrespect for the democratic process, how is such behavior learned? And to think, everyone has been blaming our state’s problems on the elderly, overweight white haired citizenry……Crazy…

• Anonymous

  Another good article about election fraud.

  http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ARTICLE3/index.php

• Anonymous

  Webster can use any excuse he likes, the fact of the matter is whatever he says true or not is a ruse. It’s just another extreme national policy the R’s have handed down to them from above. Consider it a small part of a larger plan to truly seal an election.

  The one thing I’ve learned about Republicans, whatever it is they appear to be trying to stop is the objective they want to achieve, in this case steal an election.

• Anonymous

  OMG how much more lazy and stupid to we have to deal with regarding the two political parties?  A MTA board that oversees NOTHING, real estate sales overseen by NO ONE, resignations galore from LePage administration members for various issues (i.e. see domestic assault and chapter 7/11), the GOP leader Webber who apparently can’t be bothered to back up his claims of voter fraud with oh I don’t know…..relevant  facts, and LePage himself who had proven time and time again that you really can fit more than one foot in your mouth at a time. UGH!

• Anonymous

  Or the smell test…

• http://www.facebook.com/olsonea Eric Olson

  206 voters? That’s HALF THE STATE OF MAINE!!OMG

• Anonymous

  Since clearly the Rs are after college students, and one of the stated reasons the Rs are against them voting is that they are “young and inexperienced… they have no life lessons,” I must ask: is an 18 – 19 – 20 year old who is not in college OK to vote?  One who is in college, but still in Maine?  Either of those would have more life experience?  The argument is a nonstarter.
   
  As is voter fraud – it has been proven ONCE, legitimately suspected and investigated TWICE. 
   
  If, as the Rs here posit, the Ds are bussing people to the polls (people who should not be voting, since both sides freely admit to giving rides to those who cannot get to the polls otherwise)  then let’s look at the past few elections.  Marriage Equality would still be law.  Tax reform would still be in effect (and yes, that soda would be a few pennies more expensive).  Mitchell would be Governor. 
   
  There is a national push to keep the young, poor, and minorities away from the polls, and even though the reality and results of Maine elections makes it clear the Rs are not losing anything, they are going down the list.  Sad, really, as other posters note there is a long, strong tradition of clear thinking Maine Rs who have made history.  The few pushing this and the other “national” agendas are hurting the true Rs who are still in Congress, the legislature, and average voters who are voting a more thoughtful, one might say moderate, agenda. 

• Anonymous

  So what Webster found was 206 students who used to live in other states, who now attend Maine universities and who voted in a recent election. Somehow he equates exercising a constitutional right with voter fraud. Typical Republican following the Karl Rove/Grover Norquist playbook.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SCNJPPZDX7GEYELESV2YGQFLN4 Pat T. Riot

  I have some more:
  207.  Howard, Moe
  208.  Howard, Curly
  209.  Fine, Larry
  210.  Ed, Mr.

• Anonymous

  republicans do not like fraud it tends to vote democrat.

• Anonymous

  If republicans are behind voter fraud
  can you explain whyup until the last election the democrats have ruled this state for the last 3 decades?

• Anonymous

  i see you proved fraud what is wrong with fixing it.

• Anonymous

  Name calling works so well in fifth grade, some people never give it up.

• Anonymous

  wonder about the party affiliations of those 206

• Anonymous

  Same day registration increases voter turn out. That is what republicans are afraid of. You can’t continue to cater to the rich and hurt so many large voting blocks without concern.

• Anonymous

  The fewer electronic voting machines  you have, the more democratic the election.

  In NH, during the ’08 primaries, rural areas went for Obama and urban for Hillary. Should have been the other way around. In Harlem and Bronx, NY, not a single vote went for Obama in the same primaries.

• Anonymous

  The fewer electronic voting machines  you have, the more democratic the election.

  In NH, during the ’08 primaries, rural areas went for Obama and urban for Hillary. Should have been the other way around. In Harlem and Bronx, NY, not a single vote went for Obama in the same primaries.

• Anonymous

  The fewer electronic voting machines  you have, the more democratic the election.

  In NH, during the ’08 primaries, rural areas went for Obama and urban for Hillary. Should have been the other way around. In Harlem and Bronx, NY, not a single vote went for Obama in the same primaries.

• Anonymous

  The fewer electronic voting machines  you have, the more democratic the election.

  In NH, during the ’08 primaries, rural areas went for Obama and urban for Hillary. Should have been the other way around. In Harlem and Bronx, NY, not a single vote went for Obama in the same primaries.

• http://twitter.com/BlaqkPhoenix777 BlaqkPhoenix777

  Webster’s “research” is just a ploy to vilify University students like many of his GOP colleagues in the past: the thinly veiled argument here is that University students vote democratically and skew election results unfairly in favor of policy that “doesn’t represent the interests of ordinary Mainers.” The fact that he is reluctant to make his “research” public is just more to my point. If Webster has legitimate evidence showing that ANY university students KNOWINGLY committed voter fraud with the intention of skewing election results in 2010 then I would love to see it.

• Anonymous

  So, stating that “Republicans don’t like for students, minorities and poor people to vote” is just fine with you?

  Which grade above fifth did you learn that from?

  Hypocrite.

• Anonymous

  Nothing Char-lie or the rest of his  cadre says  passes the straight face test.See 2000 and 2004 in FL and OH for the real problem.There’s  plenty of ALEC money available for poor old Char-lie

• Anonymous

  Nothing Char-lie or the rest of his  cadre says  passes the straight face test.See 2000 and 2004 in FL and OH for the real problem.There’s  plenty of ALEC money available for poor old Char-lie

• http://twitter.com/DirigoBlue Gerald Weinand

  I’ll remind readers that in November 2008, nearly 50,000 Mainers registered and voted on election day. In November 2010, over 18,000 Mainers did the same.

  Statewide, the breakdown by party in 2008 was: Dems: 28%; Green: 8%; GOP: 19%; independents: 45%

  Statewide, the breakdown by party in 2010 was: Dems: 24%; Green: 9%; GOP: 24%; independents: 42%

  See: http://www.scribd.com/doc/59127848/Maine-Reg-and-Voted-Election-Day-Complete-2008-2010

• Anonymous

  I think the House Committee on Un-American Activities should investigate these serious claims by allowing the CIA to use enhanced interrogation techniques (A GOP idea) on liberal thinking college students (Non GOP members).  I’d suggest using the ATF, but after alcohol, tobacco, and firearms show up to the party, all that is left is for someone to bring the chips!  I should take this seriously, but it is so hard! 

• Anonymous

  Thanks for pointing out another story the media is barely covering.6 for 6 so far in recalls!

• Anonymous

  If I were the Democrats in Augusta I would run, full steam ahead, with Webster’s allegations.  If they are proven false the Republicans will look like even bigger fools and democracy haters than they already do. And if by some weird fluke there is some validity to the paranoid ramblings then the Democrats have become pro-active in fighting ‘voter fraud’. My guess? The manure pile at Charlie Webster’s house is smaller since he brought it to Augusta.

• Anonymous

  206 names now with nothing behind them. No notes about how they violated election rules. Give us a thousand more just like that and there will still be nothing. Will the chairman choose to add substance later or will he keep on drinking fact free Kool-Aid? 

• Anonymous

  republicans don’t like fraud? Seriously? Where were you over the last 10 years when the Abramoff scandal erupted?

• Anonymous

  republicans don’t like fraud? Seriously? Where were you over the last 10 years when the Abramoff scandal erupted?

• http://twitter.com/DirigoBlue Gerald Weinand

  I spoke to Webster a few weeks back and asked him to provide specific instances of busloads arriving at the polls on his election day. His answers are pretty funny:

  http://www.dirigoblue.com/diary/3335

• http://twitter.com/DirigoBlue Gerald Weinand

  I spoke to Webster a few weeks back and asked him to provide specific instances of busloads arriving at the polls on his election day. His answers are pretty funny:

  http://www.dirigoblue.com/diary/3335

• Anonymous

  The more I think about this the more convinced I am that Mr. Webster is right. He did the right thing by researching and finding this massive case of election fraud. As I said before normally it is the losers in elections that yell fraud. In this case it is the winners who are doing all the yelling. Based on that I believe most reasonable people would find merit in what Mr. Webster claims. He claims that the 2010 election in the State of Maine was riddled with fraud. The only right thing to do is declare the 2010 election null and void and have a new election. It’s the right thing to do.

• Anonymous

  The more I think about this the more convinced I am that Mr. Webster is right. He did the right thing by researching and finding this massive case of election fraud. As I said before normally it is the losers in elections that yell fraud. In this case it is the winners who are doing all the yelling. Based on that I believe most reasonable people would find merit in what Mr. Webster claims. He claims that the 2010 election in the State of Maine was riddled with fraud. The only right thing to do is declare the 2010 election null and void and have a new election. It’s the right thing to do.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G3VHVECWXVPAFPXQOKWKQLXC6M c

  bangornative, you sound like you have a good handle on the topic.  Could you please tell me which laws make it difficult to uncover an action that is meant to be deceptive?

  Also, what simple, sensible measures should we take to ensure our voting process remains sound?

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G3VHVECWXVPAFPXQOKWKQLXC6M c

  bangornative, you sound like you have a good handle on the topic.  Could you please tell me which laws make it difficult to uncover an action that is meant to be deceptive?

  Also, what simple, sensible measures should we take to ensure our voting process remains sound?

• Anonymous

  I am a registered republican, and I registered to vote at the polls on election day over 10 years ago when I moved here.

  Why did the republicans move to eliminate a registration policy that worked fine for decades?

• Anonymous

  I am a registered republican, and I registered to vote at the polls on election day over 10 years ago when I moved here.

  Why did the republicans move to eliminate a registration policy that worked fine for decades?

• Anonymous

  I registered to vote at the polls in 2000, and I am a registered republican.

• Anonymous

  206 instances of potential fraud out of how many hundreds of thousands of votes caste in 2010?  Like that made a difference in the results.  Provided if it had been THOUSANDS of instances, I’d be demanding an investigation considering how close some of the races were.

  So, where is the list of those accused along with the party (if any) they registered with?  It would be interesting to see how many of these cases of fraud are R’s vs. D’s vs. Independents.  Not all students are liberal.  The school I went to had a very strong Students for Republicans group.

• Anonymous

  206 instances of potential fraud out of how many hundreds of thousands of votes caste in 2010?  Like that made a difference in the results.  Provided if it had been THOUSANDS of instances, I’d be demanding an investigation considering how close some of the races were.

  So, where is the list of those accused along with the party (if any) they registered with?  It would be interesting to see how many of these cases of fraud are R’s vs. D’s vs. Independents.  Not all students are liberal.  The school I went to had a very strong Students for Republicans group.

• Anonymous

  So he made a list with 206 students names.
  It seems like Charlie is the person who is trying to defraud us.

• Anonymous

  So he made a list with 206 students names.
  It seems like Charlie is the person who is trying to defraud us.

• Anonymous

  Unless you convince the state to give-away those photo IDs it is unconstitutional.  The US Supreme Court has ruled similar laws in other states as such, declaring the requirement an unfair poll tax.

• Anonymous

  Unless you convince the state to give-away those photo IDs it is unconstitutional.  The US Supreme Court has ruled similar laws in other states as such, declaring the requirement an unfair poll tax.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G3VHVECWXVPAFPXQOKWKQLXC6M c

  Sorry
  MaryBelle, I’m not getting this. 

  What
  do kids going to summer camp have to do with allegations of voter fraud?

  Can
  you please clarify what you are saying? 
  Thanks!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G3VHVECWXVPAFPXQOKWKQLXC6M c

  Sorry
  MaryBelle, I’m not getting this. 

  What
  do kids going to summer camp have to do with allegations of voter fraud?

  Can
  you please clarify what you are saying? 
  Thanks!

• Anonymous

  Because Mr. Webster is obviously a PATRIOT and is more interested in doing the right thing. Instead of being critical of PATRIOT Webster we need to praise him for his honesty. Now that he has uncovered all of this election fraud I am sure he would want the 2010 election declared null and void and also would want a new election. After all it is the right thing to do.

• Anonymous

  liberal fodder= anything but a solution

• Anonymous

  liberal fodder= anything but a solution

• Anonymous

  What a load of baloney this jerk is feeding us.  The Republican’s have long been looking to limit the ability of young, educated people to vote easily, because they tend to vote democratic.  This is nothing more than a charade.  The fraud here exists in the people who introduced this bill as a solution to a non-existent problem.  How dumb do they think we are?

• Anonymous

  What a load of baloney this jerk is feeding us.  The Republican’s have long been looking to limit the ability of young, educated people to vote easily, because they tend to vote democratic.  This is nothing more than a charade.  The fraud here exists in the people who introduced this bill as a solution to a non-existent problem.  How dumb do they think we are?

• Anonymous

  It did not work fine for decades, unless opening the door to fraud and abuse is fine with you. 

  For as long as I can remember, I could have voted in a half dozen different towns under the current system, and the chances of being caught would have been slim to none.

  What is so difficult about getting registered at least 2 business days before the election? Do you mean to tell me you would have been disenfranchised if you couldn’t have registered on Election Day? Are you that incompetent?

  And what about Massachusetts and New York? Are they noted for making it difficult for the poor, the disabled, and the elderly to vote? Give me a break! You guys want to make it easy for morons and cheats to vote. That’s Emily Cain’s ticket to the Speaker’s rostrum.

• Anonymous

  It did not work fine for decades, unless opening the door to fraud and abuse is fine with you. 

  For as long as I can remember, I could have voted in a half dozen different towns under the current system, and the chances of being caught would have been slim to none.

  What is so difficult about getting registered at least 2 business days before the election? Do you mean to tell me you would have been disenfranchised if you couldn’t have registered on Election Day? Are you that incompetent?

  And what about Massachusetts and New York? Are they noted for making it difficult for the poor, the disabled, and the elderly to vote? Give me a break! You guys want to make it easy for morons and cheats to vote. That’s Emily Cain’s ticket to the Speaker’s rostrum.

• Anonymous

  Is there voter fraud going on in the poll on this page? It looks like I could vote twice and it didn’t ask me for ID.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CJ6DLJ4GGWEPL32Y4CPTGDJAVA Chris

  You’re telling me that a college student who lives in MA, goes to school in ME, should be allowed to vote in both states?  Seems fair to me that he gets to be involved in the outcome of different states… And you’re telling me that there are not safeguards to prevent someone from casting absentee ballots in multiple states where they own property?  This never happens either, I’m sure.. Why should a student who does not live in this state, and this goes for all states, get to vote on matters concerning a locale that he does not pay taxes or even live in full time??  I wasn’t allowed to register in MA when I went to school there, and I paid taxes on the wages I earned while working my way through school. 

  Isn’t this fight usually reversed?  R for less gov’t and burearocracy, L for more money-grabbing gov’t programs?  Why such an outcry over somthing so simple?  Does it really inconvenience the voters that are going to vote RESPONSIBLY to register the week or so before? You know the elections are coming up… not like it’s a secret.  Get over it and deal – you L’s should be happy, we’re spending more of our hard-earned tax dollars on a program, but this time it’s pissing you off… Shoe’s on the other foot?  I’d say so….

• Anonymous

  In your case Bangorian?  Off the chart.

• Anonymous

  In your case Bangorian?  Off the chart.

• Anonymous

  In your case Bangorian?  Off the chart.

• Anonymous

  In your case Bangorian?  Off the chart.

• Anonymous

  In your case Bangorian?  Off the chart.

• Anonymous

  In your case Bangorian?  Off the chart.

• Anonymous

  In your case Bangorian?  Off the chart.

• Anonymous

  In your case Bangorian?  Off the chart.

• Anonymous

  In your case Bangorian?  Off the chart.

• Anonymous

  In your case Bangorian?  Off the chart.

• Anonymous

  In your case Bangorian?  Off the chart.

• Anonymous

  In your case Bangorian?  Off the chart.

• Anonymous

  Thank God Maine has it’s own psychotic power seeking demagogue in the form of Charles “Joe McCarthy” Webster…Of course this time none of Maine’s Republican senators has the bawlz to pull a Margaret Chase Smith and denounce such lunatic behaviors…

  “The State Department [Maine] is infested with communists [illegal voters...also known as those who don't vote Republican] I have here in my hand a list of 205 [206]—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party [illegal voters who aren't voting for Republicans] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy [potentially voting for Democratic Party candidates] in the State Department [in Maine.]”

  My gosh…you just can’t make this stuff up. What will the ROBthePUBLICans dream up next?????

• Anonymous

  Thank God Maine has it’s own psychotic power seeking demagogue in the form of Charles “Joe McCarthy” Webster…Of course this time none of Maine’s Republican senators has the bawlz to pull a Margaret Chase Smith and denounce such lunatic behaviors…

  “The State Department [Maine] is infested with communists [illegal voters...also known as those who don't vote Republican] I have here in my hand a list of 205 [206]—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party [illegal voters who aren't voting for Republicans] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy [potentially voting for Democratic Party candidates] in the State Department [in Maine.]”

  My gosh…you just can’t make this stuff up. What will the ROBthePUBLICans dream up next?????

• Anonymous

  Thank God Maine has it’s own psychotic power seeking demagogue in the form of Charles “Joe McCarthy” Webster…Of course this time none of Maine’s Republican senators has the bawlz to pull a Margaret Chase Smith and denounce such lunatic behaviors…

  “The State Department [Maine] is infested with communists [illegal voters...also known as those who don't vote Republican] I have here in my hand a list of 205 [206]—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party [illegal voters who aren't voting for Republicans] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy [potentially voting for Democratic Party candidates] in the State Department [in Maine.]”

  My gosh…you just can’t make this stuff up. What will the ROBthePUBLICans dream up next?????

• Anonymous

  Thank God Maine has it’s own psychotic power seeking demagogue in the form of Charles “Joe McCarthy” Webster…Of course this time none of Maine’s Republican senators has the bawlz to pull a Margaret Chase Smith and denounce such lunatic behaviors…

  “The State Department [Maine] is infested with communists [illegal voters...also known as those who don't vote Republican] I have here in my hand a list of 205 [206]—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party [illegal voters who aren't voting for Republicans] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy [potentially voting for Democratic Party candidates] in the State Department [in Maine.]”

  My gosh…you just can’t make this stuff up. What will the ROBthePUBLICans dream up next?????

• Anonymous

  Thank God Maine has it’s own psychotic power seeking demagogue in the form of Charles “Joe McCarthy” Webster…Of course this time none of Maine’s Republican senators has the bawlz to pull a Margaret Chase Smith and denounce such lunatic behaviors…

  “The State Department [Maine] is infested with communists [illegal voters...also known as those who don't vote Republican] I have here in my hand a list of 205 [206]—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party [illegal voters who aren't voting for Republicans] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy [potentially voting for Democratic Party candidates] in the State Department [in Maine.]”

  My gosh…you just can’t make this stuff up. What will the ROBthePUBLICans dream up next?????

• Anonymous

  Thank God Maine has it’s own psychotic power seeking demagogue in the form of Charles “Joe McCarthy” Webster…Of course this time none of Maine’s Republican senators has the bawlz to pull a Margaret Chase Smith and denounce such lunatic behaviors…

  “The State Department [Maine] is infested with communists [illegal voters...also known as those who don't vote Republican] I have here in my hand a list of 205 [206]—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party [illegal voters who aren't voting for Republicans] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy [potentially voting for Democratic Party candidates] in the State Department [in Maine.]”

  My gosh…you just can’t make this stuff up. What will the ROBthePUBLICans dream up next?????

• Anonymous

  Thank God Maine has it’s own psychotic power seeking demagogue in the form of Charles “Joe McCarthy” Webster…Of course this time none of Maine’s Republican senators has the bawlz to pull a Margaret Chase Smith and denounce such lunatic behaviors…

  “The State Department [Maine] is infested with communists [illegal voters...also known as those who don't vote Republican] I have here in my hand a list of 205 [206]—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party [illegal voters who aren't voting for Republicans] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy [potentially voting for Democratic Party candidates] in the State Department [in Maine.]”

  My gosh…you just can’t make this stuff up. What will the ROBthePUBLICans dream up next?????

• Anonymous

  Thank God Maine has it’s own psychotic power seeking demagogue in the form of Charles “Joe McCarthy” Webster…Of course this time none of Maine’s Republican senators has the bawlz to pull a Margaret Chase Smith and denounce such lunatic behaviors…

  “The State Department [Maine] is infested with communists [illegal voters...also known as those who don't vote Republican] I have here in my hand a list of 205 [206]—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party [illegal voters who aren't voting for Republicans] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy [potentially voting for Democratic Party candidates] in the State Department [in Maine.]”

  My gosh…you just can’t make this stuff up. What will the ROBthePUBLICans dream up next?????

• Anonymous

  Thank God Maine has it’s own psychotic power seeking demagogue in the form of Charles “Joe McCarthy” Webster…Of course this time none of Maine’s Republican senators has the bawlz to pull a Margaret Chase Smith and denounce such lunatic behaviors…

  “The State Department [Maine] is infested with communists [illegal voters...also known as those who don't vote Republican] I have here in my hand a list of 205 [206]—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party [illegal voters who aren't voting for Republicans] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy [potentially voting for Democratic Party candidates] in the State Department [in Maine.]”

  My gosh…you just can’t make this stuff up. What will the ROBthePUBLICans dream up next?????

• Anonymous

  Thank God Maine has it’s own psychotic power seeking demagogue in the form of Charles “Joe McCarthy” Webster…Of course this time none of Maine’s Republican senators has the bawlz to pull a Margaret Chase Smith and denounce such lunatic behaviors…

  “The State Department [Maine] is infested with communists [illegal voters...also known as those who don't vote Republican] I have here in my hand a list of 205 [206]—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party [illegal voters who aren't voting for Republicans] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy [potentially voting for Democratic Party candidates] in the State Department [in Maine.]”

  My gosh…you just can’t make this stuff up. What will the ROBthePUBLICans dream up next?????

• Anonymous

  Thank God Maine has it’s own psychotic power seeking demagogue in the form of Charles “Joe McCarthy” Webster…Of course this time none of Maine’s Republican senators has the bawlz to pull a Margaret Chase Smith and denounce such lunatic behaviors…

  “The State Department [Maine] is infested with communists [illegal voters...also known as those who don't vote Republican] I have here in my hand a list of 205 [206]—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party [illegal voters who aren't voting for Republicans] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy [potentially voting for Democratic Party candidates] in the State Department [in Maine.]”

  My gosh…you just can’t make this stuff up. What will the ROBthePUBLICans dream up next?????

• Anonymous

  Thank God Maine has it’s own psychotic power seeking demagogue in the form of Charles “Joe McCarthy” Webster…Of course this time none of Maine’s Republican senators has the bawlz to pull a Margaret Chase Smith and denounce such lunatic behaviors…

  “The State Department [Maine] is infested with communists [illegal voters...also known as those who don't vote Republican] I have here in my hand a list of 205 [206]—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party [illegal voters who aren't voting for Republicans] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy [potentially voting for Democratic Party candidates] in the State Department [in Maine.]”

  My gosh…you just can’t make this stuff up. What will the ROBthePUBLICans dream up next?????

• Anonymous

  Thank God Maine has it’s own psychotic power seeking demagogue in the form of Charles “Joe McCarthy” Webster…Of course this time none of Maine’s Republican senators has the bawlz to pull a Margaret Chase Smith and denounce such lunatic behaviors…

  “The State Department [Maine] is infested with communists [illegal voters...also known as those who don't vote Republican] I have here in my hand a list of 205 [206]—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party [illegal voters who aren't voting for Republicans] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy [potentially voting for Democratic Party candidates] in the State Department [in Maine.]”

  My gosh…you just can’t make this stuff up. What will the ROBthePUBLICans dream up next?????

• Anonymous

  The problem is most resonable people are not liberals and don’t belong to the Democratic Party

• Anonymous

  The problem is most resonable people are not liberals and don’t belong to the Democratic Party

• Anonymous

  The problem is most resonable people are not liberals and don’t belong to the Democratic Party

• Anonymous

  The problem is most resonable people are not liberals and don’t belong to the Democratic Party

• Anonymous

  The problem is most resonable people are not liberals and don’t belong to the Democratic Party

• Anonymous

  The problem is most resonable people are not liberals and don’t belong to the Democratic Party

• Anonymous

  The problem is most resonable people are not liberals and don’t belong to the Democratic Party

• Anonymous

  The problem is most resonable people are not liberals and don’t belong to the Democratic Party

• Anonymous

  The problem is most resonable people are not liberals and don’t belong to the Democratic Party

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  Whittemore right behind him. Skowhegan should be rightly embarrassed.

• Anonymous

  MaryBelle likes to comment just for the sake of commenting.  What she posted has nothing what so ever with the story.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ESPPGEF27Q2SKPSY7DQSNXHWPA SWEETSAL

  Can we have a do-over and vote in a better governer??!!??!!??  Wishful thinking!!!

• Anonymous

  Better still do not allow any Democrats to vote as they may be illegal:)

• Anonymous

  It sounds to me like Marybelle suffers from that chronic liberal condition that has come to be known as “cereberal rectal inversion”.  Sadly this condition has become increasingly common among Democrats, there is only one cure that I know of.  Remove your head from your posterior and stop drinking the liberal kool-aid.

• Anonymous

  The only side i suggest for Webster is to have him increase his medication:)

• http://www.facebook.com/lukesinthehouse Luke Thomas

  PLEASE read the NY Times article again……….

• http://www.facebook.com/lukesinthehouse Luke Thomas

  PLEASE read the NY Times article again……….

• Anonymous

  Republican honest, what planet are u from:)

• Anonymous

  Republican honest, what planet are u from:)

• Anonymous

  Yesh, where is our Mural?:)

• Anonymous

  Medic”")

• Anonymous

  If you tell Webster he will make it illegal for you- he is a hard worker:)

• Anonymous

  let the lawsuits begin!

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=719791897 Chris Grindle

  Perhaps…but his comment is right on the mark.

• Anonymous

  This is why we need to show ID to vote here in Maine.  Other state do it, there is no violation of any right to be asked to show ID!

• Anonymous

  This is why we need to show ID to vote here in Maine.  Other state do it, there is no violation of any right to be asked to show ID!

• Anonymous

  This is why we need to show ID to vote here in Maine.  Other state do it, there is no violation of any right to be asked to show ID!

• Anonymous

  This is why we need to show ID to vote here in Maine.  Other state do it, there is no violation of any right to be asked to show ID!

• Anonymous

  This is why we need to show ID to vote here in Maine.  Other state do it, there is no violation of any right to be asked to show ID!

• Anonymous

  This is why we need to show ID to vote here in Maine.  Other state do it, there is no violation of any right to be asked to show ID!

• Anonymous

  This is why we need to show ID to vote here in Maine.  Other state do it, there is no violation of any right to be asked to show ID!

• Anonymous

  This is why we need to show ID to vote here in Maine.  Other state do it, there is no violation of any right to be asked to show ID!

• Anonymous

  Here’s a what if for you: What if, this is considered rampant enough to get a judge to declare the 2010 election null and void along with all laws passed in this past session ’cause those in office might have gotten their seats fraudulently?  Do you think the R’s would retake the state in a “do-over” if held today?  How long would it be fought out in the court system due to these 206 instances of fraud?

• Anonymous

  Here’s a what if for you: What if, this is considered rampant enough to get a judge to declare the 2010 election null and void along with all laws passed in this past session ’cause those in office might have gotten their seats fraudulently?  Do you think the R’s would retake the state in a “do-over” if held today?  How long would it be fought out in the court system due to these 206 instances of fraud?

• Anonymous

  Why do you need a photo id to get on an airplane and travel across your own country but you don’t need one to vote????

• Anonymous

  Why do you need a photo id to get on an airplane and travel across your own country but you don’t need one to vote????

• Anonymous

  You may or may not  be correct on that. Do you agree with Mr. Webster that election fraud occurred in the 2010 election?

• Anonymous

  to all my liberal detractors..the corrupt government is out and like it or not, we are going to see real change in Maine…LePage wouldn’t be my choice, but a lamp post would be better than what we had for decades before

• 525_44

  Yup, they are!
  I hope more people will click on that link to read his answers and how much he isn’t making sense.

  They should be embarrassed.

• 525_44

  Yup, they are!
  I hope more people will click on that link to read his answers and how much he isn’t making sense.

  They should be embarrassed.

• Anonymous

  Planet Earth. Look no one has been more critical of our radical right tea party friends then I have. But in this case Mr. Webster is right. I would go on to say not just right but extremely right. He has convinced me that the 2010 election was flawed due to fraud. The only fair thing to do would be to declare the results null and void and hold a new fair election.

• Anonymous

  well i am still disabled, but take more time to type and i dont like it…yur style is much better and easier

• Anonymous

  Uhm, ACORN is defunct, my friend.  The congress passed a bill of attainder that shut them down.  That law was later stricken as unconstitutional, but the damage was done.  Congress acted against the constitution and KNOWINGLY passed an illegal law that targeted a single corporation.  This is the product of the News Corp smear machine.  It can’t smell like fascism if the GOP is selling it, right? 

• Anonymous

  How lazy & irresponsible do you have to be that you cannot register to vote BEFORE election day?  Registering & voting on the same day is just asking for problems.

• Anonymous

  This is just another attempt by Mr. Webster to take rights away from students… Webster is a Resident of Farmington which is home to UMF… Many on campus groups help students in how to vote and assist in students getting to the polls… I believe that Webster has a long standing problem with UMF and this is a cheap shot at taking away the rights of the students that live both on and off campus at UMF…. Plus the students must not steal elections as a Republican (Harvell) won the house, and Republican (Saviello) won senate in Farmington… This is just a backlash that is unjust, and unfair.

• Anonymous

  That’s it! Great job courting the young voters!

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=556101327 Mandi Oechslie

  This whole claim by the GOP sounds like FRAUD to me.  I would like proof – beyond a shadow of a doubt – that this actually happened.  Please, University of Maine system, would you look into these, and see why the GOP has targeted you specifically?

• Anonymous

  Great.  I hope the students launch a big fat slander suit and shut this guy up for good.

• Anonymous

  Great.  I hope the students launch a big fat slander suit and shut this guy up for good.

• Anonymous

  Great.  I hope the students launch a big fat slander suit and shut this guy up for good.

• Anonymous

  Because the Dept. of Smoke and Mirrors needs to feel important.  Take it up with the US Supreme Court.  All Maine needs to do is give free IDs and requiring an ID to vote becomes legal.

• Anonymous

  Because the Dept. of Smoke and Mirrors needs to feel important.  Take it up with the US Supreme Court.  All Maine needs to do is give free IDs and requiring an ID to vote becomes legal.

• Anonymous

  Because the Dept. of Smoke and Mirrors needs to feel important.  Take it up with the US Supreme Court.  All Maine needs to do is give free IDs and requiring an ID to vote becomes legal.

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=556101327 Mandi Oechslie

  (to “1970step_to_the_right0″) – - -  you can always tell when someone has a weak argument in a discussion. . . they turn to name-calling, and “I know you are but what am I”s.  Like you did to Bangorian.  Remember debate class?  You need evidence.  Facts.  Figures.  Right now, I’m giving you an F.

• Anonymous

  Pretty soon the only group they’ll have left to alienate will be themselves.

• Anonymous

  There have been widespread cases of republican secretaries of state placing an inadequate number of polling booths in urban areas and those with high democratic turnout.  In Wisconsin, the GOP ran fake candidates to challenge real democrats to confuse voters.  They even spent get out the vote money to get people to show up for the fakes.  That explains a couple of examples of GOP election fraud.  As to why the democrats have dominated in this state for so long the answer could not be more simply stated than:  The democrats have controlled Maine because they represent more Mainers in ways they can relate to.  For example: what is Gov. LePage’s plan to increase employment?  Still waiting. 

• Anonymous

  Iam smarter than a fifth grader.I got the liberal response i was looking for.Thank you

• Anonymous

  Iam smarter than a fifth grader.I got the liberal response i was looking for.Thank you

• Anonymous

  Iam smarter than a fifth grader.I got the liberal response i was looking for.Thank you

• Anonymous

  Iam smarter than a fifth grader.I got the liberal response i was looking for.Thank you

• Anonymous

  Iam smarter than a fifth grader.I got the liberal response i was looking for.Thank you

• Anonymous

  Iam smarter than a fifth grader.I got the liberal response i was looking for.Thank you

• Anonymous

  Iam smarter than a fifth grader.I got the liberal response i was looking for.Thank you

• SwiftyMorgain

  ***************
                                                                         *                                *
    Fraud         Fraud            Fraud           *   Charlies War!  *          Fraud          Fraud         Fraud
                                                                         *                                *
                                                                         ****************
                                                        Dont Give Up Charlie ! Its out there!

  Fraud            Fraud           Fraud            Fraud           Fraud           Fraud          Fraud           Fraud

                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyEc7FAMTg&NR=1

• Anonymous

  so you are admitting there is voter fraud and you do not want it fixed .HMMMMMMMMM.The more i read on this subject the more i am convinced we need this law.

• Anonymous

  You forgot 211. World, The Most Interesting Man in

• Anonymous

  Couldn’t resist giving you a “Like”.  The other post about a lamp post being better than what we’ve had for decades wasn’t too shabby, either.

• Anonymous

  BS

• Anonymous

  BS

• Anonymous

  I guess I didn’t make it clear; “if” someone doesn’t have a driver’s license or a passport “and” cannot afford one,,,, then,,,, “that small amount of voters” would be eligible for a State of Maine ID.

  Now if someone that doesn’t drive, or fly, or any number of reasons to use a drivers license,,, or,,, doesn’t have a passport, “and are not indigent, or a person with special needs” then they would be SOL for being such a skin-flint…

  .

• Anonymous

  I guess I didn’t make it clear; “if” someone doesn’t have a driver’s license or a passport “and” cannot afford one,,,, then,,,, “that small amount of voters” would be eligible for a State of Maine ID.

  Now if someone that doesn’t drive, or fly, or any number of reasons to use a drivers license,,, or,,, doesn’t have a passport, “and are not indigent, or a person with special needs” then they would be SOL for being such a skin-flint…

  .

• Anonymous

  You get your vote and that’s it. Why do you think you get to substitute your judgement for someone else’s when it comes to election day? It’s pretty arrogant.

• Anonymous

  You get your vote and that’s it. Why do you think you get to substitute your judgement for someone else’s when it comes to election day? It’s pretty arrogant.

• http://www.facebook.com/susan.b.clark Sue

  It’s gone right over his head, 4mermainer. ;-)

• http://www.facebook.com/susan.b.clark Sue

  It’s gone right over his head, 4mermainer. ;-)

• Anonymous

  I still dont get the opposition to requiring an ID to vote. Since we dont do that now, we really have no idea how much fraud might be taking place. You call it “rare” yet here are a possible 206 instances. I call that a systemic problem. You want to stick your head in the sand and ignore it. Just like illegal immigrants voting. That has happened to, but since it wasnt 100,000 instances you immediately dismiss it. What I think is that you want to allow voter fraud because it puts dems into office. Im worried that we have people voting who cannot do so legally. Whats the harm in making sure its not happening? Afraid we’ll uncover another ACORN?? The left screamed bloody murder that ACORN wasnt committing fraud just like you are now. And ACORN was. So why should we take your word for it this time?? Fool me once…

• Anonymous

  I still dont get the opposition to requiring an ID to vote. Since we dont do that now, we really have no idea how much fraud might be taking place. You call it “rare” yet here are a possible 206 instances. I call that a systemic problem. You want to stick your head in the sand and ignore it. Just like illegal immigrants voting. That has happened to, but since it wasnt 100,000 instances you immediately dismiss it. What I think is that you want to allow voter fraud because it puts dems into office. Im worried that we have people voting who cannot do so legally. Whats the harm in making sure its not happening? Afraid we’ll uncover another ACORN?? The left screamed bloody murder that ACORN wasnt committing fraud just like you are now. And ACORN was. So why should we take your word for it this time?? Fool me once…

• Anonymous

  You have to listen to the actual press conference to figure out Mr. Webster’s methods. The BDN article is deceptive.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXqx9yB-tTc

  Apparently he obtained the names of students paying out-of-state tuition at UM Orono, Farmington, and Augusta. These students are obviously non-residents or they would be paying the much cheaper in-state tuition rates. Then he checked their names against voter lists in the towns in which they lived and came up with the 206 people who were non-residents as defined by tuition payments, but residents as defined by voter lists.

  Webster can’t make any final determination about these folks, he’s turning his info over to the Attorney General. I think it deserves some follow-up because you can’t claim residency in two states.

• Anonymous

  You have to listen to the actual press conference to figure out Mr. Webster’s methods. The BDN article is deceptive.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXqx9yB-tTc

  Apparently he obtained the names of students paying out-of-state tuition at UM Orono, Farmington, and Augusta. These students are obviously non-residents or they would be paying the much cheaper in-state tuition rates. Then he checked their names against voter lists in the towns in which they lived and came up with the 206 people who were non-residents as defined by tuition payments, but residents as defined by voter lists.

  Webster can’t make any final determination about these folks, he’s turning his info over to the Attorney General. I think it deserves some follow-up because you can’t claim residency in two states.

• Anonymous

  I guess he was to busy defining “reasonable”. LOL

• Anonymous

  What exactly is “extreme” about wanting to maintain the integrity of the ballot box??  The way elections are stolen is by flooding the polling stations with unqualified voters.  Why wouldn’t you want to stop that from happening?

  Don’t bother answering - I know why.

• Anonymous

  Funny – looks like you did just “make things up”….

• Anonymous

  Funny – looks like you did just “make things up”….

• listenuppeople

  Are you saying he would be better off lying to the public to get votes,  I can bet what party you belong to….

• listenuppeople

  Are you saying he would be better off lying to the public to get votes,  I can bet what party you belong to….

• listenuppeople

  What did you just say??? I don’t get it…

• listenuppeople

  A light post is brighter than what we had the past 30 yrs

• listenuppeople

  Lets go back to 2008 OK???

• Anonymous

  I’d say he’d probably be better off not making such public accusations, especially if they’re so unsubstantiated. You know that old, innocent until proven guilty thing? It’s part of due process, which is in the Constitution. That’s the document that many purport to love and defend, but are very willing to throw its tenets out the window whenever it’s convenient. 

• Anonymous

  I’d say he’d probably be better off not making such public accusations, especially if they’re so unsubstantiated. You know that old, innocent until proven guilty thing? It’s part of due process, which is in the Constitution. That’s the document that many purport to love and defend, but are very willing to throw its tenets out the window whenever it’s convenient. 

• Anonymous

  Yes we could really get rid of the dems then.

• Anonymous

  Yes we could really get rid of the dems then.

• http://twitter.com/DirigoBlue Gerald Weinand

  It is really a tour de force performance by Webster, but he makes the Maine GOP’s goal clear:

  This isn’t about voting fraud, it’s about keeping out-of-state college students from voting in Maine.

  Despite that the Supreme Court ruled in 1979 (Symm.v United States) that they have every right to vote where they live while in college.

• Anonymous

  It’s not only the cost of getting the ID.. if you never drove a car and lost your original S.S. card it  can take as long as  five years and paying a lawyer to get a photo ID!!!

• Anonymous

  You need to produce proof of the fraud that took place in 2008 first. :)

• Anonymous

  1970step_to_the_right0, I wonder if this is opinion or fact?  If it’s opinion, you’re entitled to it.  If it’s fact, I’d like to know what it’s based on. 

• Anonymous

  But they can’t have it both ways, claiming their home state as their residency (as evidenced by their paying out-of-state tuition) and claiming Maine residency for the purposes of voting. If they REALLY wanted to become Maine residents, there would be no need for them to be paying out-of-state tuition. What in heaven’s name would possess them to pay higher out-of-state rates unless they planned to remain residents of their home state?

• Anonymous

  Or mixing up another batch of that “fraud” Kool-aid …

• Anonymous

  Another right-wing buffoon.  Keep talking boys and girls.  The tide is going to turn.  The 70% in the moderate middle (including Republicans) will be much more interested in the next election.

• Anonymous

  Didn’t seem to bother them in Florida with the hanging chads and ballot deception that gave Shrub his turn at bat!

• Anonymous

  Then get off your lazy butt and do some hard digging and let us know what you find…my guess?  Absolutely nothing…  = a college student who lives in MA, goes to school in ME, should be allowed to vote in both states?

  I need to learn to read all over again, because nowhere in Jay C’s post did I see any suggestion that it’s ok for anyone to vote in two states in the same election. 

  I think his point was that no evidence was provided to show that this had happened. 

• Anonymous

  I am not a Democrat but it looks like you do a lot of talking out of your prosterior which is typical of a lot of Republicans. 

• SwiftyMorgain

  They did 38 years ago.

  Its called same day voter registration.

• SwiftyMorgain

  They did 38 years ago.

  Its called same day voter registration.

• Anonymous

  Sounds like a witch hunt.   Troubling stuff, and does not feel like something you would expect to go on in Maine.
  The more of this kind of thing from Mr Webster, the more likely it will be that LePage serves one term and not another.

• Anonymous

  I hear many Republicans (or former) saying they don’t recognize this party any longer, and are re-evaluating .

• Anonymous

  It sure is.

• Anonymous

  That is a joke, but it is not too far-fetched when you look at some of these people (Webster) . I am sure you read his comments in the article.  He really is not helping his case.

• Anonymous

  LOL….LOL!!!

• Anonymous

  Wouldn’t be hard to do!

• Anonymous

  All of this is going to backfire on them down the line.  Wait and see.

• StillRelaxin

  At this point it looks like manipulating voting rights to restrict as many people as possible from casting a vote is the GOP/Tea Party’s only hope of keeping or gaining another political office. I’m anxiously waiting to hear how many MORE pretend ways they can achieve this goal before 2012. I encourage everyone to seek out and sign the petition to repeal this “ass-ault” on citizen’s rights.

• Anonymous

  There you go again!!

• Anonymous

  I agree with you 100%

• Anonymous

  Further, the ruling in Symm merely stated that it was unconsititutional to deny students the presumption of bona fide residency. Certainly the fact of paying out-of-state tuition would consititute a defense against that presumption. Of course, no student who takes up bona fide residency in Maine should be denied the right to vote here. I’m sure with you on that.

• Anonymous

  Further, the ruling in Symm merely stated that it was unconsititutional to deny students the presumption of bona fide residency. Certainly the fact of paying out-of-state tuition would consititute a defense against that presumption. Of course, no student who takes up bona fide residency in Maine should be denied the right to vote here. I’m sure with you on that.

• Anonymous

  Is that you, Charlie?

• Anonymous

  Bingo ….bingo!

  The Republicans don’t like government until they do. They like it to poke around in people’s private lives and they like it to limit voting.
  But, don’t tell some of them to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle!
  Oh, and they like to insert themselves in the rights of women and their families to make choices.
  They don’t like government when it comes to fiscal matters.
  Oh,but they love it when they try and keep others from marrying. You know….the party that is so big on “family” and “marriage.” If they think marriage is good , then it follows that it would be a good thing not to take that away from any couples.
  But, don’t go for logic.

  New York is already gaining a lot  in their economy with all those couples marrying. Great!

• Anonymous

  As one of my college professors used to say, the difference between many college Democrats and the Republicans they will eventually become is their first paycheck.  No voter should be kept from the polls but it’s certainly true that many of the young do not yet have enough financial skin in the game to decide whose taxes should be raised and whose benefits should be enhanced.

• Anonymous

  And what does that have to do with voter fraud?

• Anonymous

  And what does that have to do with voter fraud?

• Anonymous

  They sure  are hurting with their agenda. But, it will not go on forever. There will be a big backlash in the next election.

  Some people who pay taxes may still not get to vote with this Repub law. 
  Limiting voting has never been a value in this country.
  Maybe some need to read the Constitution again.

• Anonymous

  They sure  are hurting with their agenda. But, it will not go on forever. There will be a big backlash in the next election.

  Some people who pay taxes may still not get to vote with this Repub law. 
  Limiting voting has never been a value in this country.
  Maybe some need to read the Constitution again.

• Anonymous

  And what does NH have to do with Maine?

• Anonymous

  And what does NH have to do with Maine?

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=719791897 Chris Grindle

  Morons to vote?? Perhaps youd like to see a return to the voter tests that used to be given to African Americans in what what was in reality a way to prevent them from voting. The only requirement that I know of to vote is that you be a citizen and 18 years of age.

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=719791897 Chris Grindle

  Morons to vote?? Perhaps youd like to see a return to the voter tests that used to be given to African Americans in what what was in reality a way to prevent them from voting. The only requirement that I know of to vote is that you be a citizen and 18 years of age.

• Anonymous

  “Merit”?…..I really doubt it.

• Anonymous

  I will give him another “F”.

• Anonymous

  No

• Anonymous

  It’s getting to that point.

  ( a lot of them will be by the wayside one of these years though.)

• Anonymous

  Very logical and reasoned.
  But, you sound a whole lot more educated than Webster et al.

• Anonymous

  He is one of the fools , who will be kicked out in the future.

• Anonymous

  Are you seriously claiming the Governor has a home in Connecticut because he happened to be on the tarmac at the same time a family from Connecticut was?  Seriously, posts like this invalidate pretty much everything else you have to say.

• Anonymous

  He is one of the fools , who will be kicked out in the future.

• Anonymous

  He is one of the fools , who will be kicked out in the future.

• Anonymous

  He is one of the fools , who will be kicked out in the future.

• Anonymous

  Margaret Chase Smith and those of her kind would not be impressed with Webster et al.

• Anonymous

  Margaret Chase Smith and those of her kind would not be impressed with Webster et al.

• Anonymous

  If the Democratic party is a special interest group, what do you call the GOP and Tea Party? Should we legally disband the entire Democratic party just because registered Democrats turn out to vote en force?

• Anonymous

  Um, you’re wrong. There are entirely different criteria for being able to vote someplace and qualifying for in-state tuition.  

• Anonymous

  Um, you’re wrong. There are entirely different criteria for being able to vote someplace and qualifying for in-state tuition.  

• Anonymous

  Um, you’re wrong. There are entirely different criteria for being able to vote someplace and qualifying for in-state tuition.  

• Anonymous

  As a registered Republican (as you stated) , I can’t believe you like what is going on in this LePage administration.
  The latest on the radio is:……they are going to put a lot of time and energy into this (how about job creation!) and if they find someone has voted twice it is punishable to up to a year in jail.

• Anonymous

  As a registered Republican (as you stated) , I can’t believe you like what is going on in this LePage administration.
  The latest on the radio is:……they are going to put a lot of time and energy into this (how about job creation!) and if they find someone has voted twice it is punishable to up to a year in jail.

• Anonymous

  As a registered Republican (as you stated) , I can’t believe you like what is going on in this LePage administration.
  The latest on the radio is:……they are going to put a lot of time and energy into this (how about job creation!) and if they find someone has voted twice it is punishable to up to a year in jail.

• Anonymous

  As a registered Republican (as you stated) , I can’t believe you like what is going on in this LePage administration.
  The latest on the radio is:……they are going to put a lot of time and energy into this (how about job creation!) and if they find someone has voted twice it is punishable to up to a year in jail.

• StillRelaxin

  So “Working People Vote Republican?” I laugh every time I read that. You know what I think? The GOP/Tea Party is just smart enough to figure out that “People with Brains and Compassion Vote Democratic.” So there’s really no wonder that they spend so much time, money, and effort attacking people with such qualities. Trying to restrict people from casting intelligent and compassionate votes is just another strategy in what is growing into a political party that appears to have no shame.

• StillRelaxin

  So “Working People Vote Republican?” I laugh every time I read that. You know what I think? The GOP/Tea Party is just smart enough to figure out that “People with Brains and Compassion Vote Democratic.” So there’s really no wonder that they spend so much time, money, and effort attacking people with such qualities. Trying to restrict people from casting intelligent and compassionate votes is just another strategy in what is growing into a political party that appears to have no shame.

• StillRelaxin

  So “Working People Vote Republican?” I laugh every time I read that. You know what I think? The GOP/Tea Party is just smart enough to figure out that “People with Brains and Compassion Vote Democratic.” So there’s really no wonder that they spend so much time, money, and effort attacking people with such qualities. Trying to restrict people from casting intelligent and compassionate votes is just another strategy in what is growing into a political party that appears to have no shame.

• StillRelaxin

  So “Working People Vote Republican?” I laugh every time I read that. You know what I think? The GOP/Tea Party is just smart enough to figure out that “People with Brains and Compassion Vote Democratic.” So there’s really no wonder that they spend so much time, money, and effort attacking people with such qualities. Trying to restrict people from casting intelligent and compassionate votes is just another strategy in what is growing into a political party that appears to have no shame.

• StillRelaxin

  So “Working People Vote Republican?” I laugh every time I read that. You know what I think? The GOP/Tea Party is just smart enough to figure out that “People with Brains and Compassion Vote Democratic.” So there’s really no wonder that they spend so much time, money, and effort attacking people with such qualities. Trying to restrict people from casting intelligent and compassionate votes is just another strategy in what is growing into a political party that appears to have no shame.

• StillRelaxin

  So “Working People Vote Republican?” I laugh every time I read that. You know what I think? The GOP/Tea Party is just smart enough to figure out that “People with Brains and Compassion Vote Democratic.” So there’s really no wonder that they spend so much time, money, and effort attacking people with such qualities. Trying to restrict people from casting intelligent and compassionate votes is just another strategy in what is growing into a political party that appears to have no shame.

• Anonymous

  They haven’t recalled any one yet in Wisconsin. They only had the Democrat Primary Election to see who was going to run against the sitting Republicans.

• Anonymous

  They haven’t recalled any one yet in Wisconsin. They only had the Democrat Primary Election to see who was going to run against the sitting Republicans.

• Anonymous

  They haven’t recalled any one yet in Wisconsin. They only had the Democrat Primary Election to see who was going to run against the sitting Republicans.

• Anonymous

  They haven’t recalled any one yet in Wisconsin. They only had the Democrat Primary Election to see who was going to run against the sitting Republicans.

• Anonymous

  They haven’t recalled any one yet in Wisconsin. They only had the Democrat Primary Election to see who was going to run against the sitting Republicans.

• Anonymous

  In Maine I’d you’d find that OUT OF STATE tuition college students and HS students add $ 100s of millions to Maine’s economies State wide, while they attend school here in Maine. They pay extra to attend college her as well about $ 10,000 more per year at UMaine foe example.

  Buy cars, rent homes, buy food, go to doctors, buy clothes, meals, ldogin for family members who visit before they decide to even attend, and create furture tourists for the future as well as many stay and raise families here.

  Webster is a nut. However, the Maine GOP condones his behavior and outrageous statements again and again and there in lies the problem, it’s not what Webster says, it’s what the Maine GOP let’s him say.

• Anonymous

  In Maine I’d you’d find that OUT OF STATE tuition college students and HS students add $ 100s of millions to Maine’s economies State wide, while they attend school here in Maine. They pay extra to attend college her as well about $ 10,000 more per year at UMaine foe example.

  Buy cars, rent homes, buy food, go to doctors, buy clothes, meals, ldogin for family members who visit before they decide to even attend, and create furture tourists for the future as well as many stay and raise families here.

  Webster is a nut. However, the Maine GOP condones his behavior and outrageous statements again and again and there in lies the problem, it’s not what Webster says, it’s what the Maine GOP let’s him say.

• Anonymous

  In Maine I’d you’d find that OUT OF STATE tuition college students and HS students add $ 100s of millions to Maine’s economies State wide, while they attend school here in Maine. They pay extra to attend college her as well about $ 10,000 more per year at UMaine foe example.

  Buy cars, rent homes, buy food, go to doctors, buy clothes, meals, ldogin for family members who visit before they decide to even attend, and create furture tourists for the future as well as many stay and raise families here.

  Webster is a nut. However, the Maine GOP condones his behavior and outrageous statements again and again and there in lies the problem, it’s not what Webster says, it’s what the Maine GOP let’s him say.

• Anonymous

  In Maine I’d you’d find that OUT OF STATE tuition college students and HS students add $ 100s of millions to Maine’s economies State wide, while they attend school here in Maine. They pay extra to attend college her as well about $ 10,000 more per year at UMaine foe example.

  Buy cars, rent homes, buy food, go to doctors, buy clothes, meals, ldogin for family members who visit before they decide to even attend, and create furture tourists for the future as well as many stay and raise families here.

  Webster is a nut. However, the Maine GOP condones his behavior and outrageous statements again and again and there in lies the problem, it’s not what Webster says, it’s what the Maine GOP let’s him say.

• Anonymous

  In Maine I’d you’d find that OUT OF STATE tuition college students and HS students add $ 100s of millions to Maine’s economies State wide, while they attend school here in Maine. They pay extra to attend college her as well about $ 10,000 more per year at UMaine foe example.

  Buy cars, rent homes, buy food, go to doctors, buy clothes, meals, ldogin for family members who visit before they decide to even attend, and create furture tourists for the future as well as many stay and raise families here.

  Webster is a nut. However, the Maine GOP condones his behavior and outrageous statements again and again and there in lies the problem, it’s not what Webster says, it’s what the Maine GOP let’s him say.

• Anonymous

  In Maine I’d you’d find that OUT OF STATE tuition college students and HS students add $ 100s of millions to Maine’s economies State wide, while they attend school here in Maine. They pay extra to attend college her as well about $ 10,000 more per year at UMaine foe example.

  Buy cars, rent homes, buy food, go to doctors, buy clothes, meals, ldogin for family members who visit before they decide to even attend, and create furture tourists for the future as well as many stay and raise families here.

  Webster is a nut. However, the Maine GOP condones his behavior and outrageous statements again and again and there in lies the problem, it’s not what Webster says, it’s what the Maine GOP let’s him say.

• Anonymous

  And those criteria are??????

• Anonymous

  Let me ask you a question based on the assumption for argument sake that this is shown to be voter fraud. OK here is the question, Is voter fraud OK as long as it does not affect the change the results?

• Anonymous

  Hey Charlie – could you have found a more offensive sign to stand behind?  Why would you make such ridiculous accusations without having all the facts.  Typical.

• Anonymous

  I doubt it too… I was just trying to be nice! :-)

• Anonymous

  Can you possible provide one credible source to back up these two claims?

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KJEUWEYRHIPWV3PTTWWNUZ2CTQ mcmaineacjam

  Wow, 200 names of students that may or may not have committed fraud. I think they will find most of the students did not vote at all. This is a crock. doesn’t he have any thing better to do then smearing college students. I know quite a few, and they seem more ethical then a lot of politicans seem. Give them a brfeak, if yiou have hard evidence it is one thing, but he does not even know if they are registered to vote or not. Isn’t this libelous behaviour?

  By the way, I am a regular person, and no Republicans or Webster represent me. Most people do not consider the rich “regular people”.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GBHAWY2DGMGS5W3VHFYLBPN7AU Jay C

  ya, they’re going to vote in Maine then drive 2-3 hours or more to vote in another state?  I think not.

• Anonymous

  “As to why the democrats have dominated in this state for so long the
  answer could not be more simply stated than:  The democrats have
  controlled Maine because they represent more Mainers in ways they can
  relate to.  For example: what is Gov. LePage’s plan to increase
  employment?”

  If the Democrats control Maine politics and represent “more Mainers in ways they can relate to” how do you explain LePage’s election last November and the lose of both chambers of the State House to the Republicans?

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GBHAWY2DGMGS5W3VHFYLBPN7AU Jay C

  I don’t think it’s the dems that would be going….

• Anonymous

  I guess the Maine People’s Alliance is calling upon their comrades to vote on this BDN poll question.  But remember that Bangorian has reminded us that this is not a scientific poll especially if their side isn’t winning.

• Anonymous

  I guess the Maine People’s Alliance is calling upon their comrades to vote on this BDN poll question.  But remember that Bangorian has reminded us that this is not a scientific poll especially if their side isn’t winning.

• Anonymous

  I guess the Maine People’s Alliance is calling upon their comrades to vote on this BDN poll question.  But remember that Bangorian has reminded us that this is not a scientific poll especially if their side isn’t winning.

• Anonymous

  The reason this is in check is because of the bus loads of lefties coming in the night before and  on election day during the gay marriage vote that were not legal residents of Maine.  Don’t believe me?  Check the motel rosters in Kennebunk and surrounding areas for the record number of people.  A few of those visitors had a little too much spirits and laughingly told clerks what they were doing.

• Anonymous

  The reason this is in check is because of the bus loads of lefties coming in the night before and  on election day during the gay marriage vote that were not legal residents of Maine.  Don’t believe me?  Check the motel rosters in Kennebunk and surrounding areas for the record number of people.  A few of those visitors had a little too much spirits and laughingly told clerks what they were doing.

• Anonymous

  The reason this is in check is because of the bus loads of lefties coming in the night before and  on election day during the gay marriage vote that were not legal residents of Maine.  Don’t believe me?  Check the motel rosters in Kennebunk and surrounding areas for the record number of people.  A few of those visitors had a little too much spirits and laughingly told clerks what they were doing.

• Anonymous

  Hey, when I was a college student at UMaine, many people in the dorms voted in Orono and also had absentee ballots from the states they were from. It is endemic.

• Anonymous

  Proud Independent now!

• Anonymous

  Wouldn’t it be interesting to find out if those 206 students voted for LePage. would it be fraud then?

• Anonymous

  Wouldn’t it be interesting to find out if those 206 students voted for LePage. would it be fraud then?

• Anonymous

  Wouldn’t it be interesting to find out if those 206 students voted for LePage. would it be fraud then?

• http://twitter.com/z_gryphon Ben Hutchins

  Political parties: Not in the Constitution.  It occurs to me that there might’ve been a good reason for that.

• Anonymous

  Yes lets get this jobs issue off the table and concentrate on real issues like this one…..GOOD GRIEF !! This administration,and this party is way off !!

• Anonymous

  Yes lets get this jobs issue off the table and concentrate on real issues like this one…..GOOD GRIEF !! This administration,and this party is way off !!

• Anonymous

  Yes lets get this jobs issue off the table and concentrate on real issues like this one…..GOOD GRIEF !! This administration,and this party is way off !!

• Anonymous

  Yes lets get this jobs issue off the table and concentrate on real issues like this one…..GOOD GRIEF !! This administration,and this party is way off !!

• Anonymous

  Hey, but you don’t drive a truck , so you aren’t a real American/ordinary citizen?!! (according to Mr Webster.)

  Oh my gosh…. Lol…..you can’t make this stuff up.

• Anonymous

  Hey, but you don’t drive a truck , so you aren’t a real American/ordinary citizen?!! (according to Mr Webster.)

  Oh my gosh…. Lol…..you can’t make this stuff up.

• Anonymous

  Hey, but you don’t drive a truck , so you aren’t a real American/ordinary citizen?!! (according to Mr Webster.)

  Oh my gosh…. Lol…..you can’t make this stuff up.

• Anonymous

  Hey, but you don’t drive a truck , so you aren’t a real American/ordinary citizen?!! (according to Mr Webster.)

  Oh my gosh…. Lol…..you can’t make this stuff up.

• Anonymous

  Lol.

• Anonymous

  Lol.

• Anonymous

  Lol.

• Anonymous

  Lol.

• Anonymous

  Lol.

• Anonymous

  Lol.

• Anonymous

  Lol.

• Anonymous

  I don’t either!

• Anonymous

  I don’t either!

• Anonymous

  I don’t either!

• Anonymous

  I don’t either!

• Anonymous

  WARNING:  Facts and logic confuse liberals…

• Anonymous

  WARNING:  Facts and logic confuse liberals…

• Anonymous

  My son did everything right when he moved. He filled out a voter registration card to change his town of residence as you are able to do when he had his address changed on his license at motor vehicle. He did this well in advance of the election. When he got to the polls he was not registered  so he registered there. Under the new law he would not have been able to do that. Prove there is fraud before you make accusastions. I personally know a town clerk for a fairly large town and the increasing number of absentee ballots are more of an issue than same day registration. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I hope you all signed the petition to get back to normalcy.

• Anonymous

  My son did everything right when he moved. He filled out a voter registration card to change his town of residence as you are able to do when he had his address changed on his license at motor vehicle. He did this well in advance of the election. When he got to the polls he was not registered  so he registered there. Under the new law he would not have been able to do that. Prove there is fraud before you make accusastions. I personally know a town clerk for a fairly large town and the increasing number of absentee ballots are more of an issue than same day registration. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I hope you all signed the petition to get back to normalcy.

• Anonymous

  My son did everything right when he moved. He filled out a voter registration card to change his town of residence as you are able to do when he had his address changed on his license at motor vehicle. He did this well in advance of the election. When he got to the polls he was not registered  so he registered there. Under the new law he would not have been able to do that. Prove there is fraud before you make accusastions. I personally know a town clerk for a fairly large town and the increasing number of absentee ballots are more of an issue than same day registration. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I hope you all signed the petition to get back to normalcy.

• Anonymous

  someone should get a fire hose, I believe Mr Webster’s pants are on fire

• Anonymous

  someone should get a fire hose, I believe Mr Webster’s pants are on fire

• Anonymous

  someone should get a fire hose, I believe Mr Webster’s pants are on fire

• Anonymous

  Chris, please address the fact that Massachusetts and New York require voters to be registered weeks before Election Day, whereas Maine now requires that voters be registered just 2 lousy days ahead of the election. Are Mass & NY part of a conspiracy to disenfranchise blacks?

• Anonymous

  Chris, please address the fact that Massachusetts and New York require voters to be registered weeks before Election Day, whereas Maine now requires that voters be registered just 2 lousy days ahead of the election. Are Mass & NY part of a conspiracy to disenfranchise blacks?

• Anonymous

  Chris, please address the fact that Massachusetts and New York require voters to be registered weeks before Election Day, whereas Maine now requires that voters be registered just 2 lousy days ahead of the election. Are Mass & NY part of a conspiracy to disenfranchise blacks?

• SwiftyMorgain

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyEc7FAMTg&NR=1 Poor Charlie!

• SwiftyMorgain

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyEc7FAMTg&NR=1 Poor Charlie!

• SwiftyMorgain

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyEc7FAMTg&NR=1 Poor Charlie!

• Anonymous

  HE HAS RENTERS THAT GO TO COLLEGE… UMF…

• Anonymous

  There was two reasons that Libby Mitchell funnelled $9,000,000 per year from taxpayers to subsidize the 1/2 of the student body of the Maine Maritime Academy that are from out of state. Both began with “V”.  Votes and Victory. 

• Anonymous

  Maine is the oldest, whitest state in the country.  It leads the nation in young people emigrating out of state and never returning.  Maine, particularly the Northern parts, is economically backwards.  This is a great way to keep all of those trends moving forward.

• Anonymous

  Great post!

• Anonymous

  No, we don’t believe you because you have no proof. Hotel rosters? What the heck are you even talking about?

• MARINE73

  Of course there has been voter fraud in Maine and every other state.  With the same day registration, how easy is it for non-residents to be bused in on election day and register to vote?    That’s how special interests groups work.  They have an agenda and travel to every state that has same day registration!  It happened next door in New Hampshire in the 2008 elections and was all over the news.  Good grief, is there any resident of the State of Maine that can’t register to vote before an election day?  Of course not!  That’s why special interests groups are trying to get the new law reversed, it hampers their fraudulent activity…

• MARINE73

  Of course there has been voter fraud in Maine and every other state.  With the same day registration, how easy is it for non-residents to be bused in on election day and register to vote?    That’s how special interests groups work.  They have an agenda and travel to every state that has same day registration!  It happened next door in New Hampshire in the 2008 elections and was all over the news.  Good grief, is there any resident of the State of Maine that can’t register to vote before an election day?  Of course not!  That’s why special interests groups are trying to get the new law reversed, it hampers their fraudulent activity…

• MARINE73

  Of course there has been voter fraud in Maine and every other state.  With the same day registration, how easy is it for non-residents to be bused in on election day and register to vote?    That’s how special interests groups work.  They have an agenda and travel to every state that has same day registration!  It happened next door in New Hampshire in the 2008 elections and was all over the news.  Good grief, is there any resident of the State of Maine that can’t register to vote before an election day?  Of course not!  That’s why special interests groups are trying to get the new law reversed, it hampers their fraudulent activity…

• MARINE73

  Of course there has been voter fraud in Maine and every other state.  With the same day registration, how easy is it for non-residents to be bused in on election day and register to vote?    That’s how special interests groups work.  They have an agenda and travel to every state that has same day registration!  It happened next door in New Hampshire in the 2008 elections and was all over the news.  Good grief, is there any resident of the State of Maine that can’t register to vote before an election day?  Of course not!  That’s why special interests groups are trying to get the new law reversed, it hampers their fraudulent activity…

• Anonymous

  Oh, quite the PATRIOT.  
  Yeah right.
  Hey 4mermainer:  I sure hope you are a truck driver, or you are not a true everyday citizen..
  LOL.

• SwiftyMorgain

  Let us know when you start shaving!

• Anonymous

  Do you not see sarcasm there?

• Anonymous

  Funny how balancing the budget, voting integrity, debt ceiling, health insurance and on and on are only issues to republicans when in they are not in the White House. What did Republicans grow a conscience in the last year and a half. What about the previous eight years or is running the country into a ditch considered fiscally responsible. Republicans had plenty of opportunity to do many of these things but they didn’t.  So the answer is there is a huge credibility and trust issue.

• Anonymous

  Um, actually, if you are attending college in another community, different from “home,” you can still vote there. They live in their college communities for 8-9 months out of the year in most cases. 

  And yes you can make residency in two states, because here the qualifiers you’re using are different. Residency for tuition purposes is differently defined than it is for voting. OBVIOUSLY, it is harder to claim residency for tuition purposes, because otherwise no one would pay out of state tuition. 

• Anonymous

  …. so they do  if it were to work to their advantage ?

• Anonymous

  when he webster ran for governor…i WONDER HOW MANY VOTERS WERE FRAUDELENT…OR EVEN PAID AND BOUGHT…

• Anonymous

  when he webster ran for governor…i WONDER HOW MANY VOTERS WERE FRAUDELENT…OR EVEN PAID AND BOUGHT…

• Anonymous

  when he webster ran for governor…i WONDER HOW MANY VOTERS WERE FRAUDELENT…OR EVEN PAID AND BOUGHT…

• Anonymous

  We should be on our hands and knees begging college students to come to school here and become invested in the state and, yes, the political process.  BEGGING

• Anonymous

  We should be on our hands and knees begging college students to come to school here and become invested in the state and, yes, the political process.  BEGGING

• Anonymous

  Sounds like fearmongering.  People under 30!  Bugga Bugga Bugga!
  We should be begging these kids to come here and get involved in the process.

• Anonymous

  Sounds like fearmongering.  People under 30!  Bugga Bugga Bugga!
  We should be begging these kids to come here and get involved in the process.

• Anonymous

  Why don’t you do that before spreading your misinformation?

  Residency for tax purposes: http://www.maine.gov/revenue/incomeestate/guidance/res_pamphlet.htm
  Residency for UMaine:
  http://umaine.edu/bursar/residency-guidelines/
  For voting:
  http://maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/resident.htm

• SwiftyMorgain

   Here is how they combat that!

   http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2007/12/18/23357/inside-a-gop-effort-to-rig-the.html

• SwiftyMorgain

   Here is how they combat that!

   http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2007/12/18/23357/inside-a-gop-effort-to-rig-the.html

• Anonymous

  Fraud is happening in every part of our level of our State and Federal Government and it is being committed by Citizens and Non-Citizens alike. Look how many people cheat the welfare system. There is has been no major research in Maine but WE ALL know it happens. And to think that voter fraud does not happen? That is being very naive. It might not be as rampant in Maine as it is in States like Illinois but make no mistake it is happening here. The question should be what is the best way to deal with it?

• Anonymous

  Fraud is happening in every part of our level of our State and Federal Government and it is being committed by Citizens and Non-Citizens alike. Look how many people cheat the welfare system. There is has been no major research in Maine but WE ALL know it happens. And to think that voter fraud does not happen? That is being very naive. It might not be as rampant in Maine as it is in States like Illinois but make no mistake it is happening here. The question should be what is the best way to deal with it?

• SwiftyMorgain

  Opps! Whats this?

  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2007/12/18/23357/inside-a-gop-effort-to-rig-the.html

• SwiftyMorgain

  Opps! Whats this?

  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2007/12/18/23357/inside-a-gop-effort-to-rig-the.html

• Anonymous

  If you can figure it out, let us know!
  I recall his/her rant  about that before.
  But no mention of all the out-of-state donations (not published) of those in opposition.
  Oh well, it is legal in NY state now and just a matter of time elsewhere.
  Moving on……………..

• Anonymous

  Here’s my prediction of Charlie Webster’s next move:

  At a press conference in the near future, Charlie Webster will propose a solution to supposed wide spread voter fraud by:

  Privatizing voting.
  He will propose a no-bid contract of electronic voting machines to be run across Maine and to be run exclusively by……Diebolt!

  Electronic voting machines with no paper trails…..Diebolt!

  No possibility for fraud there….. no way….says Webster, trust in computers…..

  there, problem solved…..eyeroll.  

• SwiftyMorgain

  http://www.wisdems.org/news/press/view/2011-05-gop-election-fraud-exposed

  Wisconsin

• Anonymous

  Raymond stated, “They were going to throw me under the bus”.

  Isn’t that what Reps. Charlie Rangles and William Jefferson said as they were caught failing to report taxable Income and “freezing” some cash in a fridge?

  Help me out, are they still “serving” their constituents from outside a deserved cell?

  Of course, my post was in response to the “name calling” charge by MaryBelle to little Timjy, but your post was a fair one.

  However, the “shaving” quip that follows is below you.

• Anonymous

  Raymond stated, “They were going to throw me under the bus”.

  Isn’t that what Reps. Charlie Rangles and William Jefferson said as they were caught failing to report taxable Income and “freezing” some cash in a fridge?

  Help me out, are they still “serving” their constituents from outside a deserved cell?

  Of course, my post was in response to the “name calling” charge by MaryBelle to little Timjy, but your post was a fair one.

  However, the “shaving” quip that follows is below you.

• Anonymous

  Why is it always the Democrats that cheat in elections?  When is the last time you heard of Republicans rounding up non-residents, illegal aliens or convicts to vote for them.  Then of course we have Obama’s stomping ground, Chicago, where voter fraud is considered normal for the only party there: Democratic. 

• Anonymous

  Why is it always the Democrats that cheat in elections?  When is the last time you heard of Republicans rounding up non-residents, illegal aliens or convicts to vote for them.  Then of course we have Obama’s stomping ground, Chicago, where voter fraud is considered normal for the only party there: Democratic. 

• Anonymous

  Why is it always the Democrats that cheat in elections?  When is the last time you heard of Republicans rounding up non-residents, illegal aliens or convicts to vote for them.  Then of course we have Obama’s stomping ground, Chicago, where voter fraud is considered normal for the only party there: Democratic. 

• Anonymous

  Why is it always the Democrats that cheat in elections?  When is the last time you heard of Republicans rounding up non-residents, illegal aliens or convicts to vote for them.  Then of course we have Obama’s stomping ground, Chicago, where voter fraud is considered normal for the only party there: Democratic. 

• Anonymous

  Why is it always the Democrats that cheat in elections?  When is the last time you heard of Republicans rounding up non-residents, illegal aliens or convicts to vote for them.  Then of course we have Obama’s stomping ground, Chicago, where voter fraud is considered normal for the only party there: Democratic. 

• Anonymous

  Yeah, let’s encourage them to stay by teaching them it’s OK to cheat.  Let me guess,… no I won’t guess your party.

• Anonymous

  Yeah, let’s encourage them to stay by teaching them it’s OK to cheat.  Let me guess,… no I won’t guess your party.

• Anonymous

  Yeah, let’s encourage them to stay by teaching them it’s OK to cheat.  Let me guess,… no I won’t guess your party.

• Anonymous

  Yeah, let’s encourage them to stay by teaching them it’s OK to cheat.  Let me guess,… no I won’t guess your party.

• Anonymous

  Yeah, let’s encourage them to stay by teaching them it’s OK to cheat.  Let me guess,… no I won’t guess your party.

• Anonymous

  Yeah, let’s encourage them to stay by teaching them it’s OK to cheat.  Let me guess,… no I won’t guess your party.

• Anonymous

  Perhaps Maine Maritime gets this amount of money — but, it certainly doesn’t reduce the cost of attending MMA.  My son attends and they give him 1,000 a semester and we are not by any means wealthy…It cost over 30,000 a year to attend.  Wonder where all the money that is given to them  goes….not toward helping make it affordable for the students.

• Anonymous

  You are correct.Thanks for the update.

• Anonymous

  No and my name isn’t Koch or Armey either.

• Anonymous

  No and my name isn’t Koch or Armey either.

• Anonymous

  No and my name isn’t Koch or Armey either.

• Anonymous

  I wasn’t being sarcastic. Mr. Webster is the Chairman of the Maine Republican Party. He has uncovered what he believes to be election fraud in the 2010 election which brought his party to power with majorities in the State House and Senate. In addition his party also won the Blaine House after a very long absence. For him to come out and challenge the election that put all of the republicans in office is a very brave thing for him to do. He is correct in calling for an investigation by both the Secretary of State and the Attorney General. If after a complete investigation fraud is determined then it is only fitting that the results of the fraudulent election be declared null and void and a new one held. It is the right thing to do. As for the truck driving thing, I gave that up after putting the back wheels of one of George Robinson’s dump trucks into a covered cesspool.

• Anonymous

  I wasn’t being sarcastic. Mr. Webster is the Chairman of the Maine Republican Party. He has uncovered what he believes to be election fraud in the 2010 election which brought his party to power with majorities in the State House and Senate. In addition his party also won the Blaine House after a very long absence. For him to come out and challenge the election that put all of the republicans in office is a very brave thing for him to do. He is correct in calling for an investigation by both the Secretary of State and the Attorney General. If after a complete investigation fraud is determined then it is only fitting that the results of the fraudulent election be declared null and void and a new one held. It is the right thing to do. As for the truck driving thing, I gave that up after putting the back wheels of one of George Robinson’s dump trucks into a covered cesspool.

• Anonymous

  That and many more.Look up Diebold fraud,for starters.

• Anonymous

  That and many more.Look up Diebold fraud,for starters.

• Anonymous

  Yes, I understood the intent of your comments and that you were serious about another election,etc.

• Anonymous

  Yes, I understood the intent of your comments and that you were serious about another election,etc.

• Anonymous

  I hear many Republicans (or former) saying they don’t recognize this party any longer, and are re-evaluating .     
  ******************************************
  ever since the early 1970′s when Jerry Falwell’s “moral majority” infiltrated and took over the GOP it’s gone way downhill.

• Anonymous

  I hear many Republicans (or former) saying they don’t recognize this party any longer, and are re-evaluating .     
  ******************************************
  ever since the early 1970′s when Jerry Falwell’s “moral majority” infiltrated and took over the GOP it’s gone way downhill.

• Anonymous

  Try to imagine how little some of us care.

• Anonymous

  But they are certainly old enough to go off to war and have their brains blown right out of their heads aren’t they?

• Anonymous

  No one is encouraging anyone to cheat.  Talk about stretching.

  Let me guess…..your party is__? Oh , that was a tough one.

• Anonymous

  Charlie Webster + Joe McCarthy-Webster-Joe=Charlie McCarthy. Seems about right, but Bergen isn’t pulling his strings: that’s done by the Koch Bros. et al. 

• Anonymous

  Charlie Webster + Joe McCarthy-Webster-Joe=Charlie McCarthy. Seems about right, but Bergen isn’t pulling his strings: that’s done by the Koch Bros. et al. 

• Anonymous

  In my humble opinion it is the RIGHT thing to do. I am sure a very large percentage of the voters in Maine would welcome such an opportunity. Don’t you? In fact I think the BDN should poll it’s readers on if they favor a new election in view of the charges Mr. Webster has made.

• Anonymous

  ya, they’re going to vote in Maine then drive 2-3 hours or more to vote in another state? I think not.
  *************************************
  um…absentee ballot…….I think yes….

• Anonymous

  ya, they’re going to vote in Maine then drive 2-3 hours or more to vote in another state? I think not.
  *************************************
  um…absentee ballot…….I think yes….

• Anonymous

  ya, they’re going to vote in Maine then drive 2-3 hours or more to vote in another state? I think not.
  *************************************
  um…absentee ballot…….I think yes….

• Anonymous

  ya, they’re going to vote in Maine then drive 2-3 hours or more to vote in another state? I think not.
  *************************************
  um…absentee ballot…….I think yes….

• Anonymous

  ya, they’re going to vote in Maine then drive 2-3 hours or more to vote in another state? I think not.
  *************************************
  um…absentee ballot…….I think yes….

• Anonymous

  ya, they’re going to vote in Maine then drive 2-3 hours or more to vote in another state? I think not.
  *************************************
  um…absentee ballot…….I think yes….

• Anonymous

  ya, they’re going to vote in Maine then drive 2-3 hours or more to vote in another state? I think not.
  *************************************
  um…absentee ballot…….I think yes….

• Anonymous

  Dont you mean young people who have been brainwashed by liberal professors vote democrat

• Anonymous

  Dont you mean young people who have been brainwashed by liberal professors vote democrat

• Anonymous

  Dont you mean young people who have been brainwashed by liberal professors vote democrat

• Anonymous

  “Working people vote Republican” because it’s the party of JOBS, not the party of food-stamps as the democrat party is.

• Anonymous

  I’m independent, just like you.

• Anonymous

  I’m independent, just like you.

• Anonymous

  I’m independent, just like you.

• Anonymous

  I’m independent, just like you.

• Anonymous

  I’m independent, just like you.

• Anonymous

  I’m independent, just like you.

• Anonymous

  I’m independent, just like you.

• Anonymous

  I’m independent, just like you.

• Anonymous

  At least most of them know what a contraction is and how using  periods at the end of a sentence is appropriate.
  Yes, I guess you wouldn’t care too much for colleges, would you?

• Anonymous

  At least most of them know what a contraction is and how using  periods at the end of a sentence is appropriate.
  Yes, I guess you wouldn’t care too much for colleges, would you?

• listenuppeople

  Constitutional??? I wish we lived by the Constitution… Imagine no income tax!!! Imagine freedom of thoughts!!! Where  people allowed people to Love or Hate who they wanted too!!! Where feelings weren’t regulated by laws!!! I’ve seen a certain party make unconstitutionl laws so they feel good about themselves,, JB’s Family Court for one doesn’t have to follow any laws.. They make them up as they go.. and no I have never been in front of them.. I do know people who have through…..

• Anonymous

  If the Republican Party is a party JOBS, the “Working People” just got outsourced. Nice going!

• Anonymous

  If the Republican Party is a party JOBS, the “Working People” just got outsourced. Nice going!

• Anonymous

  If the Republican Party is a party JOBS, the “Working People” just got outsourced. Nice going!

• Anonymous

  Very good, you found a grammar problem.

  BFD

• Anonymous

  Very good, you found a grammar problem.

  BFD

• Anonymous

  I assume that you don’t realize, or care, that it has been proven that there were and are communists in both Hollyweed and the striped pants brigade.

• Anonymous

  I would think that you would all for this investigation, if it proves that the students are not involved in voter fraud. It would prove that you are right.

   Maybe you prefer to screech, “there is no evidence”.

• Anonymous

  It’s not an “assault on citizens rights”.  It’s requiring citizens to prove they have that right.

• http://twitter.com/DirigoBlue Gerald Weinand

  This is a really funny comment. Well done.

• Anonymous

  I
  would think that you would all for this investigation if it proves that the
  students are not involved in voter fraud. It would prove that you are right.

   

  Maybe
  you prefer to screech, “there is no evidence”.

• Anonymous

  How about a simple investigation?

  It would prove the issue one way or another.

• Anonymous

  How about a simple investigation?

  It would prove the issue one way or another.

• Anonymous

  How about a simple investigation?

  It would prove the issue one way or another.

• Anonymous

  How about a simple investigation?

  It would prove the issue one way or another.

• Anonymous

  How about a simple investigation?

  It would prove the issue one way or another.

• Anonymous

  No, we don’t believe you because you have no proof. Hotel rosters? What the heck are you even talking about?     
  **********************************************
  maybe Cheerio777 is talking about all the right-wingers that flew out here from Colorado, and up from the “bible belt” to vote for the Citizen’s Initiative that overturned the same-sex marriage bill?  After all, up until the late hours of the election, it was predicted that the initiative would not pass, based on polls during the election cycle. The NOM group brought in out-of-staters to rally for their cause, so what if many of them stayed to vote, along with bringing in others of their kind?

• Anonymous

  Using blogs as sources is a great way to show how competent their reporters are, too.

  Why would the NYT have a reporter just hanging around at a major air hub like Augusta?

• Anonymous

  So “Working People Vote Republican.”  I laugh every time I read that.”  It’s a better slogan than what the Dems in Maine have been known for 40 years,
  “The Lazy Talentless Bums and Handout Crowd Support Us”.  The Liberals are up in arms because they don’t know what it is like for the rest of us who have had our voices muffled for 40 years.  The fact is the Lazy Bums (Welfare Cases, State & Municipal Employee, Special Interest Groups, Enviros, Ex Politicians) don’t like the fact that their gravy train is ending so now they are going to find new ways to stifle progress that Maine people voted for.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XYD4MZNHJVHS6VN5XSM63QC3CM Bonny

  Finally it is really coming out how the libs try to steal all elections. Much easier than trying to find a candidate that can run on ability.

• Anonymous

  The best way in eliminating these issues  is to eliminate out of state college folks from voting in Maine period.  Let them vote in their homestate. You eliminate those who would be voting for unqualified Liberals like Emily Cain.

• Anonymous

  Nice tangent, but not relevant. If you can’t adhere to innocent until proven guilty, you’re nothing but a hypocrite. 

• Anonymous

  Aboslutely incredible!  No proof, and only about 200 to investigate?  And addition of the big 3 private colleges will add “thousands” to his idiotic witchhunt?  These are valid data?  Oh, yeah, he “only dealt with what was the easiest to find”.  Not only incompetent and uninformed (I’m being kind), but lazy to boot.  Even the Secretary of State and the Asst. Majority Leader say he’s off base.  A loose cannon who will torpedo any chance his party has of not only gaining any more power in Maine but keeping whatever they have.
  Word to the wise, Maine Republicans (if there are any of you left), can this guy or pay the price for the next 40+ years.  Who in their right mind wants to identify with the likes of this guy?

• SwiftyMorgain

  Yeah! The shaving bit was a little over the top,

   Sorry to pick on adolescense, that just isnt fair.

• Anonymous

  Stats please, anecdotal at best.

• Anonymous

  And this bought votes?  Get real.

• Anonymous

  “There will be a big backlash in the next election”.  Honestly coming from an Independent both parties are terrible (Republicans are better than Dems though), if their was a none of the above option that choice would win hands down.  The fact is the Dems better run better candidates in the next election because they would likely lose alot of seats in both Augusta and Washington. 

• Anonymous

  The more I read posts like yours, the more it reinforces why I don’t believe, nor care for, your “pablum.”  (to be kind…)

• Anonymous

  Hyperbolic stereotyping again.  Are you sure all college professors vote Democrat?  That they brainwash?  How many courses involve political content?  That all college students can be easily “brainwashed”?  And what school(s) did you attend?  What propaganda did you imbibe?
  Check the registration data for the UMO students who’ve registered to vote in Orono.

• Anonymous

  Hyperbolic stereotyping again.  Are you sure all college professors vote Democrat?  That they brainwash?  How many courses involve political content?  That all college students can be easily “brainwashed”?  And what school(s) did you attend?  What propaganda did you imbibe?
  Check the registration data for the UMO students who’ve registered to vote in Orono.

• Anonymous

  I hope the Maine Republican party pays for this witchhunt, out of their obviously deep pockets.  Oh yeah, a lot of that comes from carpet bagging money from out of state.

• Anonymous

  I hope the Maine Republican party pays for this witchhunt, out of their obviously deep pockets.  Oh yeah, a lot of that comes from carpet bagging money from out of state.

• Anonymous

  “Send in the clowns; don’t bother they’re here …” 

• Anonymous

  “Send in the clowns; don’t bother they’re here …” 

• Anonymous

  Cease multiple duplicate posting (and see my response to your first).

• Anonymous

  I have now read the NYT expose three times and all it says is that someone that looks like Gov. LePage was seen at the airport in Augusta at the same time that a family got into an airplane to go home, and different family got out of another airplane.

  There is no allegation that the person that appeared to be Governor LePage even knew either family.

  What am I missing?

• Anonymous

  I have now read the NYT expose three times and all it says is that someone that looks like Gov. LePage was seen at the airport in Augusta at the same time that a family got into an airplane to go home, and different family got out of another airplane.

  There is no allegation that the person that appeared to be Governor LePage even knew either family.

  What am I missing?

• Anonymous

  Maybe so, but how many were falsely accused without due process?  Joe McCarthy was a lying ideologue, demagod.

• Anonymous

  You’ve got to be kidding (but are probably serious).  A “possible” 206 instances is “systemic”.  And where did you go to school?

• Anonymous

  Can you prove that there is no voter fraud? Or do you just want to screech, “there is no evidence.”

• Anonymous

  Took me a while, but I’d have to agree.  Let’s hold the election again and see if LePage and the Tea Partiers mangage to sneak in again under the radar (LOL).

• Anonymous

  And who is going to pay for these units? The state? Local towns? I think not.

• Anonymous

  Sounds good to me. ;)

• Anonymous

  Being reasonable are you? (and not guilty of hyperbole, steroetyping, and exageration) 

• Anonymous

  Being reasonable are you? (and not guilty of hyperbole, steroetyping, and exageration) 

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1071238036 Aaron Dotter

  Both the Maine and US Supreme Courts have ruled that college students can vote in the town where they attend college.  You can’t stop them from voting.

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1071238036 Aaron Dotter

  Both the Maine and US Supreme Courts have ruled that college students can vote in the town where they attend college.  You can’t stop them from voting.

• Anonymous

  But your typing and/or English is at best at 5th grade.

• Anonymous

  But your typing and/or English is at best at 5th grade.

• Anonymous

  Only if the fraud exists, and all of you claim there is none. So the election must have been fair.

• Anonymous

  Only if the fraud exists, and all of you claim there is none. So the election must have been fair.

• Anonymous

  LOL

• Anonymous

  LOL

• Anonymous

  I’ve pointed out before, that could be seen as insulting.

• Anonymous

  So you weren’t being sarcastic.  I withdraw my LOL reply to that comment.

• Anonymous

  I would think that you would all for this investigation, if it proves that the students are not involved in voter fraud. It would prove that you are right.

  Maybe you just prefer to screech, “there is no evidence”.

• Anonymous

  I would think that you would all for this investigation, if it proves that the students are not involved in voter fraud. It would prove that you are right.

  Maybe you just prefer to screech, “there is no evidence”.

• Anonymous

  Who says out of state students vote in both states?  Sorry for your deprivation from voting when you were in college but don’t take it out on today’s Maine students.

• Anonymous

  Who says out of state students vote in both states?  Sorry for your deprivation from voting when you were in college but don’t take it out on today’s Maine students.

• Anonymous

  Absolutly nothing, but it is all they have.

• Anonymous

  Absolutly nothing, but it is all they have.

• Anonymous

  And ACORN operated in Maine colleges?  In Maine?  Systemically promoted voter fraud?  Another false witch hunt.

• Anonymous

  I believe that it was the Democrats that gave us the terms “hanging chads” and “dimpled chads”.

• Anonymous

  And ACORN operated in Maine colleges?  In Maine?  Systemically promoted voter fraud?  Another false witch hunt.

• Anonymous

  No way, Jose.  Good data against this travesty (and I’m being kind).

• Anonymous

  No way, Jose.  Good data against this travesty (and I’m being kind).

• Anonymous

  Joe McCarthy = chilling.

  We do not want to go down that road again….ever.

• Anonymous

  Joe McCarthy = chilling.

  We do not want to go down that road again….ever.

• Anonymous

  Joe McCarthy = chilling.

  We do not want to go down that road again….ever.

• Anonymous

  Joe McCarthy = chilling.

  We do not want to go down that road again….ever.

• Anonymous

  Joe McCarthy = chilling.

  We do not want to go down that road again….ever.

• Anonymous

  Joe McCarthy = chilling.

  We do not want to go down that road again….ever.

• Anonymous

  Sorry, we don’t see a “flood”, not even a trickle.  And this from the party that made trickle down (in)famous. 

• Anonymous

  Hysteria?  Hyperbole.  “Morons”?  Watch your name calling.

• Anonymous

  So why didn’t you try to make mutiple registrations, as  a test case?  I guess you wouldn’t be able to respond to these strings from where you would end up.

• Anonymous

  Gee, another cheep shot about spelling and grammar. Just a little childish.

• Anonymous

  Don’t know if they did disenfranchise in the past, but it’s possible.  It was endemic in the South and the KKK was very active north of the Mason Dixon line in the 20s and 30s.

• Anonymous

  You’ve bought the propaganda too?

• Anonymous

  Surely, you noticed the $1.6 million presidents’s mansion .. and the $1 million”+ alumni center, and the 5 football coaches, along with a full blown sports program associated with the deluxe gym and super maintained astroturf field. Those annual european cruises don’t come cheap. But it’s hard to explain the aggressive out of state recruiting  (1/2 of the student body) and the $9 million subsidy to the overtaxed citizens barely living on the fringe.  

• Anonymous

  And I just got a post from you complaining about posting the same thing, glad that this just a case of “do as I say … ” glad to see you don’t really mean what you say.

• Anonymous

  I assume that you would not care if they also voted, by absentee ballot, in their real home state?

• Anonymous

  I hope you’re a democrat .  If a republican came out with such a racist comment,  he/she would be burnt at the stake . Also, maybe you should let us know what “economically backwards” means to you.  People that spout off at the mouth and have no idea what their talking about is one of the reasons there is clown in the white house today. Good job. As far as I am concerned, no one should be allowed to vote until they understand what their voting on. I am sure that would leave you out.

• Anonymous

  Yes.. votes.. and political donations for hack jobs. Take a gander at the board of trustees of the MMA  cross-referenced to political contributions.

• Anonymous

  Yes.. votes.. and political donations for hack jobs. Take a gander at the board of trustees of the MMA  cross-referenced to political contributions.

• Anonymous

  Ok, if there is a problem, lets investigate. I for one would like to know. Why would anyone be against investigating unless there was something to hide?

• Anonymous

  It could
  be doubling or tripling Democrat votes

• Anonymous

  It could
  be doubling or tripling Democrat votes

• Anonymous

  It could
  be doubling or tripling Democrat votes

• Anonymous

  It could
  be doubling or tripling Democrat votes

• Anonymous

  No kidding, I would never have expected that.

• Anonymous

  No kidding, I would never have expected that.

• Anonymous

  No kidding, I would never have expected that.

• listenuppeople

  What do you have to hide???  Why don’t you want the investagation…. Fear????….The truth shall set you free from their voodoo spell… I myself want to see if students  are voting twice in order to throw elections.. One thing  I know, Republicans aren’t doing it because they wouldn’t allow students in Maine schools who are Republican nor do they allow Republican Professors in Maine schools….  Treason should be the charge, when found guilty..

• listenuppeople

  Bill Clintone signed nafta…. I voted for Bill because he said durning his campaign he would never ever sign Nafta… The first thing he did was sign Nafta… He had a choice, He did it all by him self… I voted for Bush senior the first time around and the Nafta deal he was working on made me switch parties.. Then BAM!!! Bill lied and signed it… He Made that choice he could have vetoed it like he said he would when running for office…… So the outsourcing is all Bills fault…. He held the veto pen…. Blame you’re party for outsourcing…   

• Anonymous

  Where are any charges based on this “anecdotal evidence.” ?
  Or is this list of voter’s names proof enough for the right wing that fraud MUST HAVE BEEN  committed ?

  This is how the right wing makes if myths.

  Ask yourself, has any crime been proven, yet ?
  But the spin is on, so the hack job is done.  
   
  So why is this news ?
  … oh, yeah, it is not news, it is right wing political propaganda coming from the office of a State offical.
   
  But things are still a little better in Maine than in Norway, there people are shot because they might be too liberal.

  Is this list of names voter intimation ?

• Anonymous

  Gee Larry I really thought you were a better reader then that. I have been praising Mr. Webster for his hard work finding the fraud that took place in the 2010 election. So to say I am claiming that there was no fraud is just another one of your ill informed post. 

• Anonymous

  If there is any  real evidence, where are the charges ?

• Anonymous

  Prove they are innocent of voter fraud ?
  That is how French Law, not English Common Law works…

  oh … bad move…  so now I’ll be called racist, huh ? 

  LOL 

• Anonymous

  Not at all. Mr. Webster has made a very serious charge. He claims to have evidence that the 2010 election was fraudulent. I would take it the same way if the Chairman of the Democratic Party said the same thing, especially after winning the election. While I do not know Mr. Webster personally I have no reason to disbelief him after giving this matter serious thought. I think he is showing a great deal of courage, if based on his evidence the election is deemed fraudulent and the results declared null and void it would show that the man has put his principles before politics.

• Anonymous

  Well, the taxpayers would pay to fund these fancy electronic voting machines of course.
  Just to be clear, Im not in favor of electronic voting machines.
  Im merely pointing out,
  that Electronic voting machines are way more susceptible to tampering and voter fraud,
  which have greater impacts of subversion of our democracy,
  than this witch hunt of out-of-state college student voter rolls.
  And I thought it would be funny and ironic,
  if Webster’s sollution of this supposed voter fraud would end up being advocating for
  electronic voting machines……which would make thing worse.

• Anonymous

  I think people should at least have to register their car in maine. I see people all the time dodging the exicse tax.

• http://twitter.com/DirigoBlue Gerald Weinand

  What about those that don’t own a car?

• http://twitter.com/DirigoBlue Gerald Weinand

  What about those that don’t own a car?

• http://twitter.com/DirigoBlue Gerald Weinand

  OK – please provide some evidence of how – over the last 39 years – busloads of residents from other states have been brought here to vote.

• Anonymous

  I know you must have meant intimidation.

  (there are shades of it, many would say….attempt at it. If you watched that Webster speak (if you could stand it) his whole demeanor comes off very negative and autocratic. Not good stuff…)

• Anonymous

  Continue with the outright lies about the student body, Board and finances at MMA.  You  are just peeved that you and your out-of-state friends can’t run the entire town of Castine as a Home Owners Association.  People should also know that the President’s “mansion” was once owned by a member of your family, was it not?  Could THIS one reason you grind your MMA ax all the time?  

• Anonymous

  Continue with the outright lies about the student body, Board and finances at MMA.  You  are just peeved that you and your out-of-state friends can’t run the entire town of Castine as a Home Owners Association.  People should also know that the President’s “mansion” was once owned by a member of your family, was it not?  Could THIS one reason you grind your MMA ax all the time?  

• Anonymous

  Continue with the outright lies about the student body, Board and finances at MMA.  You  are just peeved that you and your out-of-state friends can’t run the entire town of Castine as a Home Owners Association.  People should also know that the President’s “mansion” was once owned by a member of your family, was it not?  Could THIS one reason you grind your MMA ax all the time?  

• Anonymous

  Continue with the outright lies about the student body, Board and finances at MMA.  You  are just peeved that you and your out-of-state friends can’t run the entire town of Castine as a Home Owners Association.  People should also know that the President’s “mansion” was once owned by a member of your family, was it not?  Could THIS one reason you grind your MMA ax all the time?  

• Anonymous

  bigchuckie knows this because this is what Rush tells him.

• Anonymous

  I find it amazing that I have to show my ID to get my mail over the counter at the post office, yet can vote without ever showing ID.  

• Anonymous

  You’d better be careful. I spoke of the Statue of Liberty to one of those like-minded people, and he said.  “That was French”!!!  (  Duh!) So what, I would say to him!

  “The teeming masses” that have been welcomed in this country for centuries. Isn’t it great?!!

• Anonymous

  It is over his head.

• Anonymous

  If LePage does have a home in Connecticut is it a crime?  Fraud?  Or a social blunder if you are the governor of another state?  

• Anonymous

  If LePage does have a home in Connecticut is it a crime?  Fraud?  Or a social blunder if you are the governor of another state?  

• Anonymous

  It’s cheap.

  “Cheep” is like what a baby bird might say…cheep , cheep.
  Or, maybe crickets.

• Anonymous

  It’s cheap.

  “Cheep” is like what a baby bird might say…cheep , cheep.
  Or, maybe crickets.

• Anonymous

  No Republicans students or Professors? 

  Oh, lord…

• Anonymous

  No Republicans students or Professors? 

  Oh, lord…

• Anonymous

  Nor should you want to.  As it happens college kids = US Citizens.

• Anonymous

  Nor should you want to.  As it happens college kids = US Citizens.

• Anonymous

  Nor should you want to.  As it happens college kids = US Citizens.

• Anonymous

  Nor should you want to.  As it happens college kids = US Citizens.

• Anonymous

  I’m rather liberal and often vote democratic and I don’t understand the opposition to requiring an ID to vote either.  

• Anonymous

  I’m rather liberal and often vote democratic and I don’t understand the opposition to requiring an ID to vote either.  

• Anonymous

  I’m rather liberal and often vote democratic and I don’t understand the opposition to requiring an ID to vote either.  

• Anonymous

  I’m rather liberal and often vote democratic and I don’t understand the opposition to requiring an ID to vote either.  

• Anonymous

  Yes, travesty is one good  way to describe it.  Is this really Maine anymore?

• Anonymous

  Yes, travesty is one good  way to describe it.  Is this really Maine anymore?

• Anonymous

  Yes, travesty is one good  way to describe it.  Is this really Maine anymore?

• Anonymous

  Yes, travesty is one good  way to describe it.  Is this really Maine anymore?

• Anonymous

  Do you mean TOO busy defining “reasonable”?

• Anonymous

  Valid point, and something  that puts the lie to what that poster said.
  Pathetic.

• Anonymous

  It’s all they really have.

• Anonymous

  It’s all they really have.

• Anonymous

  It’s all they really have.

• Anonymous

  It’s all they really have.

• Anonymous

  Honestly poor spelling, grammar and punctuation does take away a certain amount of credibility especially when the topic is politics. 

• Anonymous

  Honestly poor spelling, grammar and punctuation does take away a certain amount of credibility especially when the topic is politics. 

• Anonymous

  Honestly poor spelling, grammar and punctuation does take away a certain amount of credibility especially when the topic is politics. 

• Anonymous

  Honestly poor spelling, grammar and punctuation does take away a certain amount of credibility especially when the topic is politics. 

• Anonymous

  If you have the proper ID I don’t see why it matters if you register on election day or not.

• Anonymous

  Oh my gosh…..that poster just surpassed the stupidity coming out of the mouths of many in that party…..
  “One thing I know, Republicans aren’t doing it because they wouldn’t allow students in Maine schools who are Republican, nor do they allow Republican Professors in Maine schools.”

  OH MY GOSH!!!
  (Are these people for real??!)  Unreal….
  You will get a real “education” reading some of the stuff on here.

• Anonymous

  It “could be” doubling or tripling Democrat votes?  Really?  How so?  Any evidence at all to support that?

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathaniel-Crosby/100002543132542 Nathaniel Crosby

  I feel that what Webster has said has some validity. For you to pounce on him like others who laughed during the news conference, then I feel we need to investigate. I saw a couple who waited until I had left(I heard them whispering about not going until no one else was there, and then came to register saying that they were new to town and wanted to vote. Maybe true-maybe not. Any side which has had the majority for years will sometimes overstep and go into the gray areas of interpretation. I’m sure the Republicans did before 1957 and the Democrats for over 35 years leading up to now also did. Remember that the laws in this state are developed with the idea that Maine citizens are not as responsible for their actions as the laws 25 years ago when making a law for us to follow.

• Anonymous

  If an investigation is performed on these college students, then one should also be performed on all citizens who own property outside of Maine who cast absentee votes in this state. It would just as easy for all those non-college voters to commit the same kind of fraud.

• Anonymous

  If an investigation is performed on these college students, then one should also be performed on all citizens who own property outside of Maine who cast absentee votes in this state. It would just as easy for all those non-college voters to commit the same kind of fraud.

• Anonymous

  If an investigation is performed on these college students, then one should also be performed on all citizens who own property outside of Maine who cast absentee votes in this state. It would just as easy for all those non-college voters to commit the same kind of fraud.

• Anonymous

  If an investigation is performed on these college students, then one should also be performed on all citizens who own property outside of Maine who cast absentee votes in this state. It would just as easy for all those non-college voters to commit the same kind of fraud.

• Anonymous

  yep thanks for catching my typo

• Anonymous

  Larry isn’t big into evidence.

• Anonymous

  “No voter should be kept from the polls but it’s certainly true that many of the young do not yet have enough financial skin in the game to decide whose taxes should be raised and whose benefits should be enhanced.”
  Nice back-handed comment. 
  Why not just mean what you say, and say what you mean.
  Cause you might as well be advocating that we should go back to the good  ol’ days where only land-owners could vote….

• Anonymous

  Working People vote Republican eh? What was that I did today? And yesterday? And a couple of days before that???? Oh yeah I went to work…….and I don’t tend to vote Republican…..

• Anonymous

  This is purley a waste of time! Once you register to vote in one community your ability to vote in your past community ends and if you ever decide to vote there again you need to reregister! I have been there and done it!

• Anonymous

  That’s right, it woud be very risky business now that  integrity has been restored to the AG’s office. For the past 40 years, the office has been run by partisan hacks who wouldn’t prosecute a case of voter fraud if it marched in and smacked them in their smug ruling-class faces.

  Any chance you want to address the NY & Mass situation, or is that argument too logical for a rodent to deal with?

• Anonymous

  That’s right, it woud be very risky business now that  integrity has been restored to the AG’s office. For the past 40 years, the office has been run by partisan hacks who wouldn’t prosecute a case of voter fraud if it marched in and smacked them in their smug ruling-class faces.

  Any chance you want to address the NY & Mass situation, or is that argument too logical for a rodent to deal with?

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Kelly-Green/100002233661222 Kelly Green

  “Absolutely nothing”…That seems to be all Charlie Webster has as well.  This is runt-of-the-litter politics at it’s best.  Seriously, he couldn’t even wait until the AG’s office does it’s investigation before he holds a press conference saying he’s found fraud.  The only fraud here seems to be Mr. Webster himself.

  His “special interest group” rant not only took away all credibility to his allegations, it added that nasty odor of BS.  If clowns like this comprise Republican leadership in this State, it’s no wonder why they’re scared of 18-22 year old kids who can easily see through these smokescreens.

• Anonymous

  Claiming to have a “list” of people who have done fraud, with no supporting information, is not a simple or sensible measure. It’s merely a way to temporarily deflect the debate about same-day voting. People are upset that the law was changed without ANY evidence that there’s ever been fraud in same-day voting. So this guy says “I have a list of names!” but somehow can’t be bothered with details to back up his accusations.

• Anonymous

  Joe McCarthy ruined many lives with baseless accusations that he made entirely for political gain. His “list” was a sham. The fact that some people in that era did indeed belong to the Communist party does not excuse him.

• Anonymous

  True Clinton had a hand it, but the R’s made it an art form, something akin to the Josef Thoraks of outsourcing.   

• Anonymous

  If you follow ACORN, what you’ll see is doctored videotapes that created false “evidence,” apparently a quite common Republican tactic.

• Anonymous

  Here we go again. Question, what have you got personally against MMA? Did you get expelled? Did a relative get expelled?
  My grandson was recently home from his very good paying job which was offered to him before he graduated from MMA. He told me that most of the funding for MMA comes from alumni. Just like most major colleges with good reputations. Can you name one other college in Maine that employers are begging for their graduates in the numbers that MMA can boast?

  At least be honest. Every time any college is mentioned in a news story you seem to want to bring out your hate for MMA.

• Anonymous

  Come on Larry, you should be able to recognize political BS by now. This guy gives a list of 200 names of students who supposedly voted in the last election. He offers NO proof that they voted twice. He offers NO proof that they did or didn’t establish residency in Maine. He offers NO proof that they voted absentee in their home states. He is as phony as a 3 dollar bill.

  If in fact the voter fraud that these clowns are purporting to have occured were as rampant as they claim, how the heck did the Republicans take control of the Governors office and both houses of the legislature?

• Anonymous

  How about prioritizing our tax dollar resources? The police don’t investigate crimes that don’t show evidence of their existence. I would think that the tax payers would be more interested in the current powers that be doing everything in their power to bring jobs and help the economy of Maine. This is nothing more than a side show carney act to keep the masses amused.

• Anonymous

  How about prioritizing our tax dollar resources? The police don’t investigate crimes that don’t show evidence of their existence. I would think that the tax payers would be more interested in the current powers that be doing everything in their power to bring jobs and help the economy of Maine. This is nothing more than a side show carney act to keep the masses amused.

• Anonymous

  How about prioritizing our tax dollar resources? The police don’t investigate crimes that don’t show evidence of their existence. I would think that the tax payers would be more interested in the current powers that be doing everything in their power to bring jobs and help the economy of Maine. This is nothing more than a side show carney act to keep the masses amused.

• Anonymous

  How about prioritizing our tax dollar resources? The police don’t investigate crimes that don’t show evidence of their existence. I would think that the tax payers would be more interested in the current powers that be doing everything in their power to bring jobs and help the economy of Maine. This is nothing more than a side show carney act to keep the masses amused.

• Anonymous

  How about prioritizing our tax dollar resources? The police don’t investigate crimes that don’t show evidence of their existence. I would think that the tax payers would be more interested in the current powers that be doing everything in their power to bring jobs and help the economy of Maine. This is nothing more than a side show carney act to keep the masses amused.

• Anonymous

  The same “Working People” are the people who built the very corporations which are sending the working peoples work to other countries, which in turn provide those corporations with working people who work much cheaper than those who built the company.

  The sign should read, “Vote Republican for Cheap Workers”

• Anonymous

  ” This is the first time in more than 50 years the Republican Party has gained control.”  Voter fraud has now explained it all.

• Anonymous

  ” This is the first time in more than 50 years the Republican Party has gained control.”  Voter fraud has now explained it all.

• Anonymous

  ” If you’re 20 years old and not a liberal democrat you have no heart………If you’re 40 years old and not a conservative Republican you have no brain.”

• Anonymous

  ” If you’re 20 years old and not a liberal democrat you have no heart………If you’re 40 years old and not a conservative Republican you have no brain.”

• Anonymous

  ” If you’re 20 years old and not a liberal democrat you have no heart………If you’re 40 years old and not a conservative Republican you have no brain.”

• Anonymous

  ” If you’re 20 years old and not a liberal democrat you have no heart………If you’re 40 years old and not a conservative Republican you have no brain.”

• Anonymous

  ” If you’re 20 years old and not a liberal democrat you have no heart………If you’re 40 years old and not a conservative Republican you have no brain.”

• Anonymous

  I hear many,many liberal democrats saying the exact same thing, I guess it’s who you listen to when they speak isn’t it?

• Anonymous

  OMG, is that Repug really trying to convince the citizens of maine that repugs are for the working man?
  Has he no shame? To stand behind that sign and claim voter fraud tips the hypocrisy scale way over. Honestly, repugs have cojones indeed. 

• Anonymous

  Treason should be the charge, when found guilty..????

• Anonymous

  Treason should be the charge, when found guilty..????

• Anonymous

  “people with brains…vote Democratic” – is that why our debt has doubled in the last 30 months?   Is that why housing is being sold at the lowest rate since 1983?  Is that why the Democrats have not even proposed a budget since the current President was elected?  Is that why we spend over 1 Trillion dollars “to create or save jobs” and yet the only real increase in job numbers are State and Federal employees who don’t produce anything and require more taxpayer money to retain those jobs?  Reality check please.

• MaineHiker

  Bull! If students were that coordinated we would have an altogether different government today.

• Anonymous

  This guy is a joke. Maine’s republicans represent the truck driver (we’re gonna raise your social security age)  working class people (we’re gonna take away Medicare) while leaving taxes on the rich at an all time low.

  Just an attempt to prevent college kids from away from voting in Maine.

• Anonymous

  This guy is a joke. Maine’s republicans represent the truck driver (we’re gonna raise your social security age)  working class people (we’re gonna take away Medicare) while leaving taxes on the rich at an all time low.

  Just an attempt to prevent college kids from away from voting in Maine.

• Anonymous

  What a pile of you know what! Charlie Webster has lost what little credibility he had with this mindless stunt. Even a grade schooler could reference US and Maine supreme court rulings that allow full time resident college students the right to register and vote in the jurisdiction they attend school.
  There’s no fraud here, not even a hint. The only thing Webster is exposing is his ignorance of law.

• SwiftyMorgain

  Actually,they think we are dumb enough to vote twice!

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Erskine/100000075766114 Jonathan Erskine

  Working People Vote Republican. What a croc. I work, don’t vote Republican and I don’t drive a truck either. Isn’t it a good thing that college students, or anyone over 18, votes?

• SwiftyMorgain

  And when I was a Student it virtually non existant as it was an easily verifiable crime!

  Same as today!

• Anonymous

  Hmmm…….I have been to UMaine twice.  Somehow they must have missed the fact that I am a registered Republican since the 1970s.

• Anonymous

  He ignores the fact that legal definitions of residence for “resident” tuition at the university and for voter registration are not the same.  

  More to the point, he states flat-out that Republicans are the only legitimate political party in Maine.

• Anonymous

  He ignores the fact that legal definitions of residence for “resident” tuition at the university and for voter registration are not the same.  

  More to the point, he states flat-out that Republicans are the only legitimate political party in Maine.

• Anonymous

  He ignores the fact that legal definitions of residence for “resident” tuition at the university and for voter registration are not the same.  

  More to the point, he states flat-out that Republicans are the only legitimate political party in Maine.

• Anonymous

  He ignores the fact that legal definitions of residence for “resident” tuition at the university and for voter registration are not the same.  

  More to the point, he states flat-out that Republicans are the only legitimate political party in Maine.

• Anonymous

  He ignores the fact that legal definitions of residence for “resident” tuition at the university and for voter registration are not the same.  

  More to the point, he states flat-out that Republicans are the only legitimate political party in Maine.

• Anonymous

  1.) If the graduates are immediately hired at great wages.. which they are.. then why can’t the students get loans with a 4 year payback which they can easily handle since they have no living  costs nor pay taxes .. and not scrape the state coffers dry with $9,000,000 subsidy.

  2. Yes… Bowdoin, Bates, Coby (all private colleges) have a hire record as you suggest. Itr’s time for the MMA to be privatized.
    

• Anonymous

  1.) If the graduates are immediately hired at great wages.. which they are.. then why can’t the students get loans with a 4 year payback which they can easily handle since they have no living  costs nor pay taxes .. and not scrape the state coffers dry with $9,000,000 subsidy.

  2. Yes… Bowdoin, Bates, Coby (all private colleges) have a hire record as you suggest. Itr’s time for the MMA to be privatized.
    

• Anonymous

  1.) If the graduates are immediately hired at great wages.. which they are.. then why can’t the students get loans with a 4 year payback which they can easily handle since they have no living  costs nor pay taxes .. and not scrape the state coffers dry with $9,000,000 subsidy.

  2. Yes… Bowdoin, Bates, Coby (all private colleges) have a hire record as you suggest. Itr’s time for the MMA to be privatized.
    

• Anonymous

  1.) If the graduates are immediately hired at great wages.. which they are.. then why can’t the students get loans with a 4 year payback which they can easily handle since they have no living  costs nor pay taxes .. and not scrape the state coffers dry with $9,000,000 subsidy.

  2. Yes… Bowdoin, Bates, Coby (all private colleges) have a hire record as you suggest. Itr’s time for the MMA to be privatized.
    

• Anonymous

  1.) If the graduates are immediately hired at great wages.. which they are.. then why can’t the students get loans with a 4 year payback which they can easily handle since they have no living  costs nor pay taxes .. and not scrape the state coffers dry with $9,000,000 subsidy.

  2. Yes… Bowdoin, Bates, Coby (all private colleges) have a hire record as you suggest. Itr’s time for the MMA to be privatized.
    

• Anonymous

  How many of them did you report to officials at the time?

• Anonymous

  How many of them did you report to officials at the time?

• Anonymous

  How many of them did you report to officials at the time?

• Anonymous

  How many of them did you report to officials at the time?

• Anonymous

  How many of them did you report to officials at the time?

• Anonymous

  How many of them did you report to officials at the time?

• Anonymous

  How many of them did you report to officials at the time?

• Anonymous

  How many of them did you report to officials at the time?

• Anonymous

  How many of them did you report to officials at the time?

• Anonymous

  How many of them did you report to officials at the time?

• Anonymous

  Then how come we’re not calling her Gov. Libby today?  Obviously, she didn’t buy the votes (or enough) as you claim.

• Anonymous

  Then how come we’re not calling her Gov. Libby today?  Obviously, she didn’t buy the votes (or enough) as you claim.

• Anonymous

  Working People Vote Republican.
  Only if they’re very, very confused.
  That’s why the repugs keep spewing their B.S.

• Anonymous

  Working People Vote Republican.
  Only if they’re very, very confused.
  That’s why the repugs keep spewing their B.S.

• Anonymous

  I’m sure that 4 years of socialism kindergarten at the U of M is more than enough time to instill voter fraud techniques.

• Anonymous

  I’m sure that 4 years of socialism kindergarten at the U of M is more than enough time to instill voter fraud techniques.

• Anonymous

  No – nice try.. but you guessed wrong.. three times in fact. But are you not employed by the MMA?

• Anonymous

  No – nice try.. but you guessed wrong.. three times in fact. But are you not employed by the MMA?

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=719791897 Chris Grindle

  Do yourself a favor and lay off the Faux News Kool Aid for a day or two…if your lucky your   twisted view of reality should correct itself.

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=719791897 Chris Grindle

  Do yourself a favor and lay off the Faux News Kool Aid for a day or two…if your lucky your   twisted view of reality should correct itself.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SCNJPPZDX7GEYELESV2YGQFLN4 Pat T. Riot

  I have a question.  How many people who think the University of Maine has some sort of left-wing, socialist agenda actually went to school there, even for a class or two?

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SCNJPPZDX7GEYELESV2YGQFLN4 Pat T. Riot

  I have a question.  How many people who think the University of Maine has some sort of left-wing, socialist agenda actually went to school there, even for a class or two?

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SCNJPPZDX7GEYELESV2YGQFLN4 Pat T. Riot

  I have a question.  How many people who think the University of Maine has some sort of left-wing, socialist agenda actually went to school there, even for a class or two?

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=719791897 Chris Grindle

  But they love it when they lie to a country to pull it into a war for profit. GOP….the better to seek forgiveness than to ask for  permission crowd. And the forgiveness part isnt really that important.

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=719791897 Chris Grindle

  But they love it when they lie to a country to pull it into a war for profit. GOP….the better to seek forgiveness than to ask for  permission crowd. And the forgiveness part isnt really that important.

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=719791897 Chris Grindle

  But they love it when they lie to a country to pull it into a war for profit. GOP….the better to seek forgiveness than to ask for  permission crowd. And the forgiveness part isnt really that important.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SCNJPPZDX7GEYELESV2YGQFLN4 Pat T. Riot

  I graduated from the University of Maine.  I took courses from quite a few professors who were very conservative.  They even wore bowties.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SCNJPPZDX7GEYELESV2YGQFLN4 Pat T. Riot

  I graduated from the University of Maine.  I took courses from quite a few professors who were very conservative.  They even wore bowties.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SCNJPPZDX7GEYELESV2YGQFLN4 Pat T. Riot

  I graduated from the University of Maine.  I took courses from quite a few professors who were very conservative.  They even wore bowties.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SCNJPPZDX7GEYELESV2YGQFLN4 Pat T. Riot

  I graduated from the University of Maine.  I took courses from quite a few professors who were very conservative.  They even wore bowties.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SCNJPPZDX7GEYELESV2YGQFLN4 Pat T. Riot

  I graduated from the University of Maine.  I took courses from quite a few professors who were very conservative.  They even wore bowties.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SCNJPPZDX7GEYELESV2YGQFLN4 Pat T. Riot

  I graduated from the University of Maine.  I took courses from quite a few professors who were very conservative.  They even wore bowties.

• Anonymous

  We  are already there, lynne 14

• Anonymous

  We  are already there, lynne 14

• Anonymous

  We  are already there, lynne 14

• 525_44

  It’s been unrecognizable for so long, I don’t remember what they were about to begin with.
  They have a split in their own party now and no one will budge.

• 525_44

  It’s been unrecognizable for so long, I don’t remember what they were about to begin with.
  They have a split in their own party now and no one will budge.

• 525_44

  It’s been unrecognizable for so long, I don’t remember what they were about to begin with.
  They have a split in their own party now and no one will budge.

• 525_44

  It’s been unrecognizable for so long, I don’t remember what they were about to begin with.
  They have a split in their own party now and no one will budge.

• Anonymous

  What came out? That the GOP chairman made baseless accusations months ago, and then held a press conference with no substance whatsoever? That the GOP chairman is ignorant of how college students are legally able to vote where they attend school while they are students?

  Much easier to demonize people seeking an education and pander to uneducated conservatives than actually prove voter fraud, I suppose.

• Anonymous

  What came out? That the GOP chairman made baseless accusations months ago, and then held a press conference with no substance whatsoever? That the GOP chairman is ignorant of how college students are legally able to vote where they attend school while they are students?

  Much easier to demonize people seeking an education and pander to uneducated conservatives than actually prove voter fraud, I suppose.

• Anonymous

  What came out? That the GOP chairman made baseless accusations months ago, and then held a press conference with no substance whatsoever? That the GOP chairman is ignorant of how college students are legally able to vote where they attend school while they are students?

  Much easier to demonize people seeking an education and pander to uneducated conservatives than actually prove voter fraud, I suppose.

• Anonymous

  What came out? That the GOP chairman made baseless accusations months ago, and then held a press conference with no substance whatsoever? That the GOP chairman is ignorant of how college students are legally able to vote where they attend school while they are students?

  Much easier to demonize people seeking an education and pander to uneducated conservatives than actually prove voter fraud, I suppose.

• Anonymous

  What came out? That the GOP chairman made baseless accusations months ago, and then held a press conference with no substance whatsoever? That the GOP chairman is ignorant of how college students are legally able to vote where they attend school while they are students?

  Much easier to demonize people seeking an education and pander to uneducated conservatives than actually prove voter fraud, I suppose.

• Anonymous

  What came out? That the GOP chairman made baseless accusations months ago, and then held a press conference with no substance whatsoever? That the GOP chairman is ignorant of how college students are legally able to vote where they attend school while they are students?

  Much easier to demonize people seeking an education and pander to uneducated conservatives than actually prove voter fraud, I suppose.

• Anonymous

  NOTHING WAS PROVEN!  It was McCarthy like list waving. But the way the headlines in the BDN were written, 75%  of the headline readers will report it as fact at the gab fests and general stores.

• Anonymous

  NOTHING WAS PROVEN!  It was McCarthy like list waving. But the way the headlines in the BDN were written, 75%  of the headline readers will report it as fact at the gab fests and general stores.

• Anonymous

  NOTHING WAS PROVEN!  It was McCarthy like list waving. But the way the headlines in the BDN were written, 75%  of the headline readers will report it as fact at the gab fests and general stores.

• Anonymous

  NOTHING WAS PROVEN!  It was McCarthy like list waving. But the way the headlines in the BDN were written, 75%  of the headline readers will report it as fact at the gab fests and general stores.

• Anonymous

  No, the Republican party is the party of handouts. Medicare drug benefits were enacted by Bush, and until Obama our deficit grew more under Republicans than Democrats every time one was in office.

• Anonymous

  No, the Republican party is the party of handouts. Medicare drug benefits were enacted by Bush, and until Obama our deficit grew more under Republicans than Democrats every time one was in office.

• Anonymous

  No, the Republican party is the party of handouts. Medicare drug benefits were enacted by Bush, and until Obama our deficit grew more under Republicans than Democrats every time one was in office.

• Anonymous

  No, the Republican party is the party of handouts. Medicare drug benefits were enacted by Bush, and until Obama our deficit grew more under Republicans than Democrats every time one was in office.

• Anonymous

  No, the Republican party is the party of handouts. Medicare drug benefits were enacted by Bush, and until Obama our deficit grew more under Republicans than Democrats every time one was in office.

• Anonymous

  No, the Republican party is the party of handouts. Medicare drug benefits were enacted by Bush, and until Obama our deficit grew more under Republicans than Democrats every time one was in office.

• Anonymous

  No, the Republican party is the party of handouts. Medicare drug benefits were enacted by Bush, and until Obama our deficit grew more under Republicans than Democrats every time one was in office.

• Anonymous

  No, the Republican party is the party of handouts. Medicare drug benefits were enacted by Bush, and until Obama our deficit grew more under Republicans than Democrats every time one was in office.

• Anonymous

  In 1988 during the controversial Maine nuclear referendum, an UMPI student admitted to me several months after the election that he and some of his friends voted in three local communities in an attempt to sway the vote their way because they could register to vote on the day of the election and get away with it.  I never forgot that comment and have always felt that until such time that all communities are linked to a central voter registration hub, that same day registration should be eliminated. 

• Anonymous

  In 1988 during the controversial Maine nuclear referendum, an UMPI student admitted to me several months after the election that he and some of his friends voted in three local communities in an attempt to sway the vote their way because they could register to vote on the day of the election and get away with it.  I never forgot that comment and have always felt that until such time that all communities are linked to a central voter registration hub, that same day registration should be eliminated. 

• Anonymous

  In 1988 during the controversial Maine nuclear referendum, an UMPI student admitted to me several months after the election that he and some of his friends voted in three local communities in an attempt to sway the vote their way because they could register to vote on the day of the election and get away with it.  I never forgot that comment and have always felt that until such time that all communities are linked to a central voter registration hub, that same day registration should be eliminated. 

• Anonymous

  In 1988 during the controversial Maine nuclear referendum, an UMPI student admitted to me several months after the election that he and some of his friends voted in three local communities in an attempt to sway the vote their way because they could register to vote on the day of the election and get away with it.  I never forgot that comment and have always felt that until such time that all communities are linked to a central voter registration hub, that same day registration should be eliminated. 

• Anonymous

  In 1988 during the controversial Maine nuclear referendum, an UMPI student admitted to me several months after the election that he and some of his friends voted in three local communities in an attempt to sway the vote their way because they could register to vote on the day of the election and get away with it.  I never forgot that comment and have always felt that until such time that all communities are linked to a central voter registration hub, that same day registration should be eliminated. 

• Anonymous

  In 1988 during the controversial Maine nuclear referendum, an UMPI student admitted to me several months after the election that he and some of his friends voted in three local communities in an attempt to sway the vote their way because they could register to vote on the day of the election and get away with it.  I never forgot that comment and have always felt that until such time that all communities are linked to a central voter registration hub, that same day registration should be eliminated. 

• Anonymous

  But none of this is actually happening. There is no actual voter fraud in Maine, unless you count the fraudulent accusations the GOP chairman used as a basis of his press conference.

• Anonymous

  But none of this is actually happening. There is no actual voter fraud in Maine, unless you count the fraudulent accusations the GOP chairman used as a basis of his press conference.

• Anonymous

  But none of this is actually happening. There is no actual voter fraud in Maine, unless you count the fraudulent accusations the GOP chairman used as a basis of his press conference.

• Anonymous

  But none of this is actually happening. There is no actual voter fraud in Maine, unless you count the fraudulent accusations the GOP chairman used as a basis of his press conference.

• Anonymous

  But none of this is actually happening. There is no actual voter fraud in Maine, unless you count the fraudulent accusations the GOP chairman used as a basis of his press conference.

• Anonymous

  But none of this is actually happening. There is no actual voter fraud in Maine, unless you count the fraudulent accusations the GOP chairman used as a basis of his press conference.

• Anonymous

  But none of this is actually happening. There is no actual voter fraud in Maine, unless you count the fraudulent accusations the GOP chairman used as a basis of his press conference.

• Anonymous

  But none of this is actually happening. There is no actual voter fraud in Maine, unless you count the fraudulent accusations the GOP chairman used as a basis of his press conference.

• Anonymous

  I am not opposed to investigating this. But the GOP chairman waves this list in the air as if it is proof, and it is nothing of the sort.

• Anonymous

  I think I have frequently said that the only thing the LePage administration would be good for is enriching his good old boy network of cronies.

• http://profiles.google.com/sdemetri Stephen Demetriou

  206 students! This dolt thinks 206 students, who may or may not have voted twice, out of how many tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of votes, have ANY effect on the outcome of an election?

  A perfect example of the insanity, dishonesty, vileness pervading the GOP at this time in our history. 

• Anonymous

  Maybe it’s because Eliot Cutler made his way to Castine and talked with the folks at the top.

• http://profiles.google.com/sdemetri Stephen Demetriou

  Better than the rock under which you appear to have received your education.

• Anonymous

  young educated people ?????  you mean influenced adolescent minds perhaps.
  liberal fodder at its best
   

• Anonymous

  young educated people ?????  you mean influenced adolescent minds perhaps.
  liberal fodder at its best
   

• Anonymous

  young educated people ?????  you mean influenced adolescent minds perhaps.
  liberal fodder at its best
   

• Anonymous

  young educated people ?????  you mean influenced adolescent minds perhaps.
  liberal fodder at its best
   

• Anonymous

  And that’s why Charlie gets the big bucks… “dealing with what is the easiest thing”!

• Anonymous

  As Republicans stand behind another red, white and blue symbol trying proving they are more American than those who oppose their methods of creating jobs for “Working People” who are not in this country.

• Anonymous

  It’s called “D” for Development or “J” for Jobs, Or “H” for Heritage. What you say is inane, and slanderous, the same sort of thing this Webster guy is doing. “D” for disgusting

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  Rick Scott in Florida would disagree with your assessment of no one ever uncovering Medicare fraud…

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  If the article had anything accurate to say, social blunder — given our governor no longer owns property in Maine and will be in Florida by, I’d guess, January 31, 2014.

• Anonymous

  That was back when Conservatives had brains.

• Anonymous

  You are supposed to quote your sources. In this case Winston Churchill.

• Anonymous

  Republican bigotry defined:  “In my opinion they are … The difference is we [Republicans] represent
  regular people, how’s that? We represent working class people, people
  who drive a truck. We don’t represent the far left of Maine.”

  Everyone who is not like Charlie is suspected of wrongdoing.  Everyone who is not just like  Charlie is a “special interest group”.  The young, the people that have different political priorities, the people with anything that makes them not “regular” from Charlie’s point of view, are not entitled to vote in his world. 

  Charlie, you won’t like me either.  I do work for a living, I drive a truck, I farm, own property and hate to pay taxes, but my political beliefs are “far left” of yours.  The difference between us Charlie is that I have a little bit of compassion for others, and you seem to have none. 

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  Because then you get Republicans who take a step beyond the ID and do like they’re doing in Wisconsin now: closing Motor Vehicles branches in Democratic-leaning areas, and expanding hours in Republican-leaning areas.

  See, what the Republicans do of late is what Freud called “projection”. Theirs isn’t technically voter fraud, of course, because making it harder for someone to vote means they don’t get to the polls at all.

  And ACORN was committing REGISTRATION fraud, not VOTER fraud. Their extra voters got caught and purged. It’s impressive, I just read that more people believed this nutter theory than people who believed Obama wasn’t here. That’s saying something. Apparently Charlie Webster is one of them.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  Because then you get Republicans who take a step beyond the ID and do like they’re doing in Wisconsin now: closing Motor Vehicles branches in Democratic-leaning areas, and expanding hours in Republican-leaning areas.

  See, what the Republicans do of late is what Freud called “projection”. Theirs isn’t technically voter fraud, of course, because making it harder for someone to vote means they don’t get to the polls at all.

  And ACORN was committing REGISTRATION fraud, not VOTER fraud. Their extra voters got caught and purged. It’s impressive, I just read that more people believed this nutter theory than people who believed Obama wasn’t here. That’s saying something. Apparently Charlie Webster is one of them.

• Anonymous

  What’s next?  Demanding that you prove you haven’t committed a crime?

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  The typo-fixing comments take away even more, regardless of which side they’re on.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  Yep. Don’t you just love how Webster went after college students, and not more well-off people with camps, and who trend Republican? Hmmm. I wonder how many absentee ballots come in from upta camp every year.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  Yep. Don’t you just love how Webster went after college students, and not more well-off people with camps, and who trend Republican? Hmmm. I wonder how many absentee ballots come in from upta camp every year.

• Anonymous

  ” they don’t know what it is like for the rest of us who have had our voices muffled for 40 years”.  News flash:  your voice wasn’t muffled for 40 years, no one believed  the craziness that kept coming out of it.  Given the craziness currently emanating from your party of choice it is my fervent  hope that everyone resumes their disbelief.

• Anonymous

  ” they don’t know what it is like for the rest of us who have had our voices muffled for 40 years”.  News flash:  your voice wasn’t muffled for 40 years, no one believed  the craziness that kept coming out of it.  Given the craziness currently emanating from your party of choice it is my fervent  hope that everyone resumes their disbelief.

• Anonymous

  ” they don’t know what it is like for the rest of us who have had our voices muffled for 40 years”.  News flash:  your voice wasn’t muffled for 40 years, no one believed  the craziness that kept coming out of it.  Given the craziness currently emanating from your party of choice it is my fervent  hope that everyone resumes their disbelief.

• Anonymous

  ” they don’t know what it is like for the rest of us who have had our voices muffled for 40 years”.  News flash:  your voice wasn’t muffled for 40 years, no one believed  the craziness that kept coming out of it.  Given the craziness currently emanating from your party of choice it is my fervent  hope that everyone resumes their disbelief.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  Democrat with an IC. For an adjective. Unless you have some dislike of adjectives?

  And one of the recall elections was held, against a sitting Democrat (noun). He retained his seat.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  Democrat with an IC. For an adjective. Unless you have some dislike of adjectives?

  And one of the recall elections was held, against a sitting Democrat (noun). He retained his seat.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  Democrat with an IC. For an adjective. Unless you have some dislike of adjectives?

  And one of the recall elections was held, against a sitting Democrat (noun). He retained his seat.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  Democrat with an IC. For an adjective. Unless you have some dislike of adjectives?

  And one of the recall elections was held, against a sitting Democrat (noun). He retained his seat.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  Democrat with an IC. For an adjective. Unless you have some dislike of adjectives?

  And one of the recall elections was held, against a sitting Democrat (noun). He retained his seat.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  Know what we need? Federal government control. I’d be all for a nice central voter registry so we knew people couldn’t vote in two places. Fact is, all you righties would suddenly be up in arms about federal control of your lives.

• Anonymous

  Our debt has doubled in the last 30 months because taxes are at all time lows.  The result of unsustainable tax rates established by the previous administration coupled with the crashed (crashing?) economy. 

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  And since proper ID is required for any registration less than 10 days before an election… you’re in favor of repealing this bill?

• Anonymous

  That’s a great yarn, Gopher. What I hear you saying is that modern-day New York and Massachusetts are just oozing with a foul legacy of racism, and a proclivity to disenfranchise the downtrodden masses. That’s why they have the onerous requirement that voters register many weeks prior to the election, so elected officials can keep their boots on the necks of the disadvantaged. Only the progressive and enlightened State of Maine understood that this is an injustice and an assault on the rights of the poor, so we allowed same-day registration. You guys are just too much!

• Anonymous

  That’s a great yarn, Gopher. What I hear you saying is that modern-day New York and Massachusetts are just oozing with a foul legacy of racism, and a proclivity to disenfranchise the downtrodden masses. That’s why they have the onerous requirement that voters register many weeks prior to the election, so elected officials can keep their boots on the necks of the disadvantaged. Only the progressive and enlightened State of Maine understood that this is an injustice and an assault on the rights of the poor, so we allowed same-day registration. You guys are just too much!

• Anonymous

  That’s a great yarn, Gopher. What I hear you saying is that modern-day New York and Massachusetts are just oozing with a foul legacy of racism, and a proclivity to disenfranchise the downtrodden masses. That’s why they have the onerous requirement that voters register many weeks prior to the election, so elected officials can keep their boots on the necks of the disadvantaged. Only the progressive and enlightened State of Maine understood that this is an injustice and an assault on the rights of the poor, so we allowed same-day registration. You guys are just too much!

• Anonymous

  Only
  yanking chains. Sorry that you missed it.

   

  I
  have no more evidence that it happens than you have evidence that it does not.
  There have not been any studies that prove either side, so my opinion is as
  accurate as yours, both just base conjectures. Besides doubling or tripling
  voter turnout would be so obvious that only the media could really deny it.

• Anonymous

  Only
  yanking chains. Sorry that you missed it.

   

  I
  have no more evidence that it happens than you have evidence that it does not.
  There have not been any studies that prove either side, so my opinion is as
  accurate as yours, both just base conjectures. Besides doubling or tripling
  voter turnout would be so obvious that only the media could really deny it.

• Anonymous

  Only
  yanking chains. Sorry that you missed it.

   

  I
  have no more evidence that it happens than you have evidence that it does not.
  There have not been any studies that prove either side, so my opinion is as
  accurate as yours, both just base conjectures. Besides doubling or tripling
  voter turnout would be so obvious that only the media could really deny it.

• Anonymous

  The swell in food stamps usage is directly connected to the Bush recession.  People have to eat even if their jobs have been shipped overseas.  As far as jobs, when has this new GOP congress suggested a JOBS bill?  Not a word about it.  They do not care if the jobless rate increases to 20%.  They have said as much publicly, if you are listening.  Never in my life have I seen a major political party so completely divorce itself from the plight of the people.  We need jobs bills and tax reform to prevent the continued leakage of jobs overseas.  This is what the republicans have brought us.  They have piled up so much debt, turning to them to clean it up is insane.

  Turn off Fox News and your mind will be free to see what is really going on.  Deny it all you want but GOP strategy is to dumb down the news, slash education and produce an entire generation of mindless, exploitable labor.  They play on getting people like you to hate your neighbors, so you don’t notice that they are robbing you of any hope of a better tomorrow.  Don’t let Rup Murdock steal your brain.  Change the channel and remember what it was like when you cared about your neighbors.

• Anonymous

  The swell in food stamps usage is directly connected to the Bush recession.  People have to eat even if their jobs have been shipped overseas.  As far as jobs, when has this new GOP congress suggested a JOBS bill?  Not a word about it.  They do not care if the jobless rate increases to 20%.  They have said as much publicly, if you are listening.  Never in my life have I seen a major political party so completely divorce itself from the plight of the people.  We need jobs bills and tax reform to prevent the continued leakage of jobs overseas.  This is what the republicans have brought us.  They have piled up so much debt, turning to them to clean it up is insane.

  Turn off Fox News and your mind will be free to see what is really going on.  Deny it all you want but GOP strategy is to dumb down the news, slash education and produce an entire generation of mindless, exploitable labor.  They play on getting people like you to hate your neighbors, so you don’t notice that they are robbing you of any hope of a better tomorrow.  Don’t let Rup Murdock steal your brain.  Change the channel and remember what it was like when you cared about your neighbors.

• Anonymous

  The swell in food stamps usage is directly connected to the Bush recession.  People have to eat even if their jobs have been shipped overseas.  As far as jobs, when has this new GOP congress suggested a JOBS bill?  Not a word about it.  They do not care if the jobless rate increases to 20%.  They have said as much publicly, if you are listening.  Never in my life have I seen a major political party so completely divorce itself from the plight of the people.  We need jobs bills and tax reform to prevent the continued leakage of jobs overseas.  This is what the republicans have brought us.  They have piled up so much debt, turning to them to clean it up is insane.

  Turn off Fox News and your mind will be free to see what is really going on.  Deny it all you want but GOP strategy is to dumb down the news, slash education and produce an entire generation of mindless, exploitable labor.  They play on getting people like you to hate your neighbors, so you don’t notice that they are robbing you of any hope of a better tomorrow.  Don’t let Rup Murdock steal your brain.  Change the channel and remember what it was like when you cared about your neighbors.

• Anonymous

  Yes, there was hysteria on the floor of the state Senate during the debate, such that one of the D’s was reprimanded for yelling. Methinks they doth protest too much…

• Anonymous

  I find it amazing that I need to show “my papers” to travel;  I find it amazing that I have been “selected randomly” for extra search at every time I have flown since 9-11 ( it couldn’t be the beard that hides my weak chin and that I “tan up” well?);   I find it amazing that  I am accosted by federal agents on the farm that has been in the family for 3 generations  wanting to know who I am and what I am doing.

  Above all I find it amazing that all of you so-called conservatives have very real rights that are infringed everyday – but seem to focus on crap like whoopie pies and nonexistent voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  I find it amazing that I need to show “my papers” to travel;  I find it amazing that I have been “selected randomly” for extra search at every time I have flown since 9-11 ( it couldn’t be the beard that hides my weak chin and that I “tan up” well?);   I find it amazing that  I am accosted by federal agents on the farm that has been in the family for 3 generations  wanting to know who I am and what I am doing.

  Above all I find it amazing that all of you so-called conservatives have very real rights that are infringed everyday – but seem to focus on crap like whoopie pies and nonexistent voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  I find it amazing that I need to show “my papers” to travel;  I find it amazing that I have been “selected randomly” for extra search at every time I have flown since 9-11 ( it couldn’t be the beard that hides my weak chin and that I “tan up” well?);   I find it amazing that  I am accosted by federal agents on the farm that has been in the family for 3 generations  wanting to know who I am and what I am doing.

  Above all I find it amazing that all of you so-called conservatives have very real rights that are infringed everyday – but seem to focus on crap like whoopie pies and nonexistent voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  looks like another little dem scandal revealed first the turnpike now voting.Ilove this new broom in augusta sweeping out the dirt.Stay tuned for more after thirty years of dems doing anything they want.

• Anonymous

  looks like another little dem scandal revealed first the turnpike now voting.Ilove this new broom in augusta sweeping out the dirt.Stay tuned for more after thirty years of dems doing anything they want.

• Anonymous

  Frustrated with the economy Bush left us, they believed the hype that the GOP was now about jobs.  It was another diversion tactic to promote a radical social agenda including voter suppression, tax cuts for the one’s who gave our jobs to China and cuts to our shared future: the education of our children.  The people will show you they don’t like to be duped as soon as they get a chance.  The republicans are impetuous when they get power as we can all now plainly see.  That’s why they won’t get another chance to screw us for another generation or so.  People make mistakes.  Just ask ‘em. 

• Anonymous

  Frustrated with the economy Bush left us, they believed the hype that the GOP was now about jobs.  It was another diversion tactic to promote a radical social agenda including voter suppression, tax cuts for the one’s who gave our jobs to China and cuts to our shared future: the education of our children.  The people will show you they don’t like to be duped as soon as they get a chance.  The republicans are impetuous when they get power as we can all now plainly see.  That’s why they won’t get another chance to screw us for another generation or so.  People make mistakes.  Just ask ‘em. 

• Anonymous

  But making college students carry ID will disenfranchise them along with the poor, elderly and people from venus..

  This was used earlier  when making ID required for voting, except the ET’s, I added that. (Full disclosure statement)

• Anonymous

  But making college students carry ID will disenfranchise them along with the poor, elderly and people from venus..

  This was used earlier  when making ID required for voting, except the ET’s, I added that. (Full disclosure statement)

• Anonymous

  Frustrated with the economy Bush left us, they believed the hype that the GOP was now about jobs.  It was another diversion tactic to promote a radical social agenda including voter suppression, tax cuts for the one’s who gave our jobs to China and cuts to our shared future: the education of our children.  The people will show you they don’t like to be duped as soon as they get a chance.  The republicans are impetuous when they get power as we can all now plainly see.  That’s why they won’t get another chance to screw us for another generation or so.  People make mistakes.  Just ask ‘em. 

• Anonymous

  Frustrated with the economy Bush left us, they believed the hype that the GOP was now about jobs.  It was another diversion tactic to promote a radical social agenda including voter suppression, tax cuts for the one’s who gave our jobs to China and cuts to our shared future: the education of our children.  The people will show you they don’t like to be duped as soon as they get a chance.  The republicans are impetuous when they get power as we can all now plainly see.  That’s why they won’t get another chance to screw us for another generation or so.  People make mistakes.  Just ask ‘em. 

• Anonymous

  Frustrated with the economy Bush left us, they believed the hype that the GOP was now about jobs.  It was another diversion tactic to promote a radical social agenda including voter suppression, tax cuts for the one’s who gave our jobs to China and cuts to our shared future: the education of our children.  The people will show you they don’t like to be duped as soon as they get a chance.  The republicans are impetuous when they get power as we can all now plainly see.  That’s why they won’t get another chance to screw us for another generation or so.  People make mistakes.  Just ask ‘em. 

• Anonymous

  Frustrated with the economy Bush left us, they believed the hype that the GOP was now about jobs.  It was another diversion tactic to promote a radical social agenda including voter suppression, tax cuts for the one’s who gave our jobs to China and cuts to our shared future: the education of our children.  The people will show you they don’t like to be duped as soon as they get a chance.  The republicans are impetuous when they get power as we can all now plainly see.  That’s why they won’t get another chance to screw us for another generation or so.  People make mistakes.  Just ask ‘em. 

• Anonymous

  How many people voted?  Every one of them is a “possible” fraud according to the standards you espouse.

• Anonymous

  How many people voted?  Every one of them is a “possible” fraud according to the standards you espouse.

• Anonymous

  How many people voted?  Every one of them is a “possible” fraud according to the standards you espouse.

• Anonymous

  How many people voted?  Every one of them is a “possible” fraud according to the standards you espouse.

• Anonymous

  How many people voted?  Every one of them is a “possible” fraud according to the standards you espouse.

• Anonymous

  How many people voted?  Every one of them is a “possible” fraud according to the standards you espouse.

• Anonymous

  Can you prove a negative?

• Anonymous

  Will this accusation inspire young voters to register Republican?  Surely not.  The kind of anti-educated franchisees is plain old GOP doctrine.  In additon to which, it brings back another Rebulican classic: the Generation Gap.  Good going Webster!  Turn back the clock to see the results.

• Anonymous

  My, my, my, aren’t we touchy? The truth smarts doesn’t it?

• Anonymous

  My, my, my, aren’t we touchy? The truth smarts doesn’t it?

• Anonymous

  Glad to see the dems all drinking from the same kook-aid and spewing obama one liners .obama the pied piper watch that first step it is a big one.

• Anonymous

  Glad to see the dems all drinking from the same kook-aid and spewing obama one liners .obama the pied piper watch that first step it is a big one.

• Anonymous

  If the “young people” are as educated as you claim, then they ought to know the law which is clear: you can vote where you claim residency. If you claim residency in ,say, Waterville, ME, then the law requires that you register your vehicle in Waterville, ME and obtain a ME driver’s license and that you get rid of the old, out-of-state license within 30 days of claiming residency. College campuses across the nation are full of students who want to vote, and I say good for them. But, vote legally in addition to voting intelligently–whatever party or candidate you vote for.
  In NH, I lived in a college town. I believe someone wanted to pass a law mandating that college students be informed that if they voted in the town, that meant they were claiming residency and were thus required to meet residency requirements. Oh my, how the left cried “intimidation!!” Intimidation? It’s now considered intimidation to notify people of the law so that they can comply with it and avoid potential consequences? Then I suppose those speed limit signs are intimidating drivers all over the roadways….

• Anonymous

  If the “young people” are as educated as you claim, then they ought to know the law which is clear: you can vote where you claim residency. If you claim residency in ,say, Waterville, ME, then the law requires that you register your vehicle in Waterville, ME and obtain a ME driver’s license and that you get rid of the old, out-of-state license within 30 days of claiming residency. College campuses across the nation are full of students who want to vote, and I say good for them. But, vote legally in addition to voting intelligently–whatever party or candidate you vote for.
  In NH, I lived in a college town. I believe someone wanted to pass a law mandating that college students be informed that if they voted in the town, that meant they were claiming residency and were thus required to meet residency requirements. Oh my, how the left cried “intimidation!!” Intimidation? It’s now considered intimidation to notify people of the law so that they can comply with it and avoid potential consequences? Then I suppose those speed limit signs are intimidating drivers all over the roadways….

• Anonymous

  If the “young people” are as educated as you claim, then they ought to know the law which is clear: you can vote where you claim residency. If you claim residency in ,say, Waterville, ME, then the law requires that you register your vehicle in Waterville, ME and obtain a ME driver’s license and that you get rid of the old, out-of-state license within 30 days of claiming residency. College campuses across the nation are full of students who want to vote, and I say good for them. But, vote legally in addition to voting intelligently–whatever party or candidate you vote for.
  In NH, I lived in a college town. I believe someone wanted to pass a law mandating that college students be informed that if they voted in the town, that meant they were claiming residency and were thus required to meet residency requirements. Oh my, how the left cried “intimidation!!” Intimidation? It’s now considered intimidation to notify people of the law so that they can comply with it and avoid potential consequences? Then I suppose those speed limit signs are intimidating drivers all over the roadways….

• Anonymous

  If the “young people” are as educated as you claim, then they ought to know the law which is clear: you can vote where you claim residency. If you claim residency in ,say, Waterville, ME, then the law requires that you register your vehicle in Waterville, ME and obtain a ME driver’s license and that you get rid of the old, out-of-state license within 30 days of claiming residency. College campuses across the nation are full of students who want to vote, and I say good for them. But, vote legally in addition to voting intelligently–whatever party or candidate you vote for.
  In NH, I lived in a college town. I believe someone wanted to pass a law mandating that college students be informed that if they voted in the town, that meant they were claiming residency and were thus required to meet residency requirements. Oh my, how the left cried “intimidation!!” Intimidation? It’s now considered intimidation to notify people of the law so that they can comply with it and avoid potential consequences? Then I suppose those speed limit signs are intimidating drivers all over the roadways….

• Anonymous

  I know, just wanted to give you the chance to feel superior. Maybe I should add a mistake in every post.

• Anonymous

  I know, just wanted to give you the chance to feel superior. Maybe I should add a mistake in every post.

• Anonymous

  I know, just wanted to give you the chance to feel superior. Maybe I should add a mistake in every post.

• Anonymous

  I know, just wanted to give you the chance to feel superior. Maybe I should add a mistake in every post.

• Anonymous

  Shall we construct policy on a 2nd hand story that may or may not be true, that may or may not be an isolated occurrence?

  Registering to vote requires proof of residency.  I’m not clear how a student could easily establish proof of residency (drivers license, utility bill, etc.) in more than one town.  And I’m not sure that cutting voter registration off for 2 days before elections would do anything to prevent this either.

• Anonymous

  Shall we construct policy on a 2nd hand story that may or may not be true, that may or may not be an isolated occurrence?

  Registering to vote requires proof of residency.  I’m not clear how a student could easily establish proof of residency (drivers license, utility bill, etc.) in more than one town.  And I’m not sure that cutting voter registration off for 2 days before elections would do anything to prevent this either.

• Anonymous

  Shall we construct policy on a 2nd hand story that may or may not be true, that may or may not be an isolated occurrence?

  Registering to vote requires proof of residency.  I’m not clear how a student could easily establish proof of residency (drivers license, utility bill, etc.) in more than one town.  And I’m not sure that cutting voter registration off for 2 days before elections would do anything to prevent this either.

• Anonymous

  Shall we construct policy on a 2nd hand story that may or may not be true, that may or may not be an isolated occurrence?

  Registering to vote requires proof of residency.  I’m not clear how a student could easily establish proof of residency (drivers license, utility bill, etc.) in more than one town.  And I’m not sure that cutting voter registration off for 2 days before elections would do anything to prevent this either.

• Anonymous

  Shall we construct policy on a 2nd hand story that may or may not be true, that may or may not be an isolated occurrence?

  Registering to vote requires proof of residency.  I’m not clear how a student could easily establish proof of residency (drivers license, utility bill, etc.) in more than one town.  And I’m not sure that cutting voter registration off for 2 days before elections would do anything to prevent this either.

• Anonymous

  Shall we construct policy on a 2nd hand story that may or may not be true, that may or may not be an isolated occurrence?

  Registering to vote requires proof of residency.  I’m not clear how a student could easily establish proof of residency (drivers license, utility bill, etc.) in more than one town.  And I’m not sure that cutting voter registration off for 2 days before elections would do anything to prevent this either.

• Anonymous

  Shall we construct policy on a 2nd hand story that may or may not be true, that may or may not be an isolated occurrence?

  Registering to vote requires proof of residency.  I’m not clear how a student could easily establish proof of residency (drivers license, utility bill, etc.) in more than one town.  And I’m not sure that cutting voter registration off for 2 days before elections would do anything to prevent this either.

• Anonymous

  Shall we construct policy on a 2nd hand story that may or may not be true, that may or may not be an isolated occurrence?

  Registering to vote requires proof of residency.  I’m not clear how a student could easily establish proof of residency (drivers license, utility bill, etc.) in more than one town.  And I’m not sure that cutting voter registration off for 2 days before elections would do anything to prevent this either.

• Anonymous

  Thank you for patrolling the pages of the BDN correcting grammar.

  Now, would you like to post a link to the recall of the “sitting Democrat (noun)” that “retained his seat” in Wisconsin.

• Anonymous

  Thank you for patrolling the pages of the BDN correcting grammar.

  Now, would you like to post a link to the recall of the “sitting Democrat (noun)” that “retained his seat” in Wisconsin.

• Anonymous

  They didn’t accept him for admission and he’s spending the rest of his life on a payback crusade.

• Anonymous

  They didn’t accept him for admission and he’s spending the rest of his life on a payback crusade.

• Anonymous

  Instead of telling us how bad the Republicans are, try telling us how the Democrats are better.

• Anonymous

  Instead of telling us how bad the Republicans are, try telling us how the Democrats are better.

• Anonymous

  How could he have stats from that unless mithradities gathered them himself. He was just informing the BDN board readers of his experiences. Just because they don’t fit liberal biased views doesn’t mean he can’t tell his story. Anyways if you ever took a class in statistics you would understand how they can be slanted to support a certain agenda. Statistics do lie.

• Anonymous

  How could he have stats from that unless mithradities gathered them himself. He was just informing the BDN board readers of his experiences. Just because they don’t fit liberal biased views doesn’t mean he can’t tell his story. Anyways if you ever took a class in statistics you would understand how they can be slanted to support a certain agenda. Statistics do lie.

• Anonymous

  Where are the jobs? 

  We keep hearing that the wealthy, oops, I mean “job creators,” can’t create any jobs unless their taxes are cut even further, even though corporate profits are at record highs and taxes on the wealthy are at historic lows.

  Obviously, Republicans would create jobs if they could.  As would the Democrats.  But it is not so simple, is it?

  Regarding food stamps, what response would you offer to the fact that in our society we have children whose parents do not have incomes adequate to feed them properly.  Let them starve?

• Anonymous

  Where are the jobs? 

  We keep hearing that the wealthy, oops, I mean “job creators,” can’t create any jobs unless their taxes are cut even further, even though corporate profits are at record highs and taxes on the wealthy are at historic lows.

  Obviously, Republicans would create jobs if they could.  As would the Democrats.  But it is not so simple, is it?

  Regarding food stamps, what response would you offer to the fact that in our society we have children whose parents do not have incomes adequate to feed them properly.  Let them starve?

• 525_44

  Ah someone has to first be charged with treason and then found guilty or not guilty.

• 525_44

  Ah someone has to first be charged with treason and then found guilty or not guilty.

• 525_44

  Ah someone has to first be charged with treason and then found guilty or not guilty.

• 525_44

  Ah someone has to first be charged with treason and then found guilty or not guilty.

• 525_44

  Ah someone has to first be charged with treason and then found guilty or not guilty.

• Anonymous

  What a steaming bag of lying crap.  Just to steal some votes. 

• Anonymous

  What a steaming bag of lying crap.  Just to steal some votes. 

• Anonymous

  What a steaming bag of lying crap.  Just to steal some votes. 

• Anonymous

  What a steaming bag of lying crap.  Just to steal some votes. 

• Anonymous

  What a steaming bag of lying crap.  Just to steal some votes. 

• Anonymous

  What a steaming bag of lying crap.  Just to steal some votes. 

• Anonymous

  What a steaming bag of lying crap.  Just to steal some votes. 

• Anonymous

  Lots of people can’t even be bothered to take time out of busy day, to drive to a polling place, to stand in line, to deal with petitioners — to vote once.  What, really, provides motivation for them to travel to another town and repeat the process, at risk of substantial fines, in order to vote twice?  Is anyone suggesting they are being financially compensated for doing this?  Is anyone looking over their shoulder while they complete their ballot in order to make sure they are voting for the right candidates?   Does anyone think the number of these fraudulent votes could be influential except in a very small fraction of elections in which the margin is less than 1%?  The idea of organized systematic voter fraud seems pretty ludicrous.

• Anonymous

  Lots of people can’t even be bothered to take time out of busy day, to drive to a polling place, to stand in line, to deal with petitioners — to vote once.  What, really, provides motivation for them to travel to another town and repeat the process, at risk of substantial fines, in order to vote twice?  Is anyone suggesting they are being financially compensated for doing this?  Is anyone looking over their shoulder while they complete their ballot in order to make sure they are voting for the right candidates?   Does anyone think the number of these fraudulent votes could be influential except in a very small fraction of elections in which the margin is less than 1%?  The idea of organized systematic voter fraud seems pretty ludicrous.

• Anonymous

  Lots of people can’t even be bothered to take time out of busy day, to drive to a polling place, to stand in line, to deal with petitioners — to vote once.  What, really, provides motivation for them to travel to another town and repeat the process, at risk of substantial fines, in order to vote twice?  Is anyone suggesting they are being financially compensated for doing this?  Is anyone looking over their shoulder while they complete their ballot in order to make sure they are voting for the right candidates?   Does anyone think the number of these fraudulent votes could be influential except in a very small fraction of elections in which the margin is less than 1%?  The idea of organized systematic voter fraud seems pretty ludicrous.

• Anonymous

  Lots of people can’t even be bothered to take time out of busy day, to drive to a polling place, to stand in line, to deal with petitioners — to vote once.  What, really, provides motivation for them to travel to another town and repeat the process, at risk of substantial fines, in order to vote twice?  Is anyone suggesting they are being financially compensated for doing this?  Is anyone looking over their shoulder while they complete their ballot in order to make sure they are voting for the right candidates?   Does anyone think the number of these fraudulent votes could be influential except in a very small fraction of elections in which the margin is less than 1%?  The idea of organized systematic voter fraud seems pretty ludicrous.

• Anonymous

  Lots of people can’t even be bothered to take time out of busy day, to drive to a polling place, to stand in line, to deal with petitioners — to vote once.  What, really, provides motivation for them to travel to another town and repeat the process, at risk of substantial fines, in order to vote twice?  Is anyone suggesting they are being financially compensated for doing this?  Is anyone looking over their shoulder while they complete their ballot in order to make sure they are voting for the right candidates?   Does anyone think the number of these fraudulent votes could be influential except in a very small fraction of elections in which the margin is less than 1%?  The idea of organized systematic voter fraud seems pretty ludicrous.

• Anonymous

  Lots of people can’t even be bothered to take time out of busy day, to drive to a polling place, to stand in line, to deal with petitioners — to vote once.  What, really, provides motivation for them to travel to another town and repeat the process, at risk of substantial fines, in order to vote twice?  Is anyone suggesting they are being financially compensated for doing this?  Is anyone looking over their shoulder while they complete their ballot in order to make sure they are voting for the right candidates?   Does anyone think the number of these fraudulent votes could be influential except in a very small fraction of elections in which the margin is less than 1%?  The idea of organized systematic voter fraud seems pretty ludicrous.

• 525_44

  The banner he is behind is a joke. It seems to suggest that only working people vote republican.
  I know a lot of working people who don’t vote R.

• 525_44

  The banner he is behind is a joke. It seems to suggest that only working people vote republican.
  I know a lot of working people who don’t vote R.

• 525_44

  The banner he is behind is a joke. It seems to suggest that only working people vote republican.
  I know a lot of working people who don’t vote R.

• 525_44

  The banner he is behind is a joke. It seems to suggest that only working people vote republican.
  I know a lot of working people who don’t vote R.

• 525_44

  The banner he is behind is a joke. It seems to suggest that only working people vote republican.
  I know a lot of working people who don’t vote R.

• 525_44

  The banner he is behind is a joke. It seems to suggest that only working people vote republican.
  I know a lot of working people who don’t vote R.

• 525_44

  The banner he is behind is a joke. It seems to suggest that only working people vote republican.
  I know a lot of working people who don’t vote R.

• 525_44

  The banner he is behind is a joke. It seems to suggest that only working people vote republican.
  I know a lot of working people who don’t vote R.

• 525_44

  The banner he is behind is a joke. It seems to suggest that only working people vote republican.
  I know a lot of working people who don’t vote R.

• 525_44

  The banner he is behind is a joke. It seems to suggest that only working people vote republican.
  I know a lot of working people who don’t vote R.

• 525_44

  The banner he is behind is a joke. It seems to suggest that only working people vote republican.
  I know a lot of working people who don’t vote R.

• 525_44

  The banner he is behind is a joke. It seems to suggest that only working people vote republican.
  I know a lot of working people who don’t vote R.

• 525_44

  The banner he is behind is a joke. It seems to suggest that only working people vote republican.
  I know a lot of working people who don’t vote R.

• Anonymous

  Do you have proof that such a stupid statement was made?

• Anonymous

  Do you have proof that such a stupid statement was made?

• Anonymous

  Do you have proof that such a stupid statement was made?

• Anonymous

  Do you have proof that such a stupid statement was made?

• Anonymous

  Do you have proof that such a stupid statement was made?

• Anonymous

  Do you have proof that such a stupid statement was made?

• Anonymous

  Do you have proof that such a stupid statement was made?

• Anonymous

  Do you have proof that such a stupid statement was made?

• Anonymous

  Do you have proof that such a stupid statement was made?

• Anonymous

  Do you have proof that such a stupid statement was made?

• Anonymous

  Do you have proof that such a stupid statement was made?

• Anonymous

  I heard from my daughter who heard from her friend who heard from her uncle that the Koch Brothers sent busloads of skinheads in to vote for LePage in the last election.

• Anonymous

   same-day voter registration is a scam

• Anonymous

   same-day voter registration is a scam

• Anonymous

   same-day voter registration is a scam

• Anonymous

  Actually, for reasons that are fairly obvious, colleges have made it very difficult for students who grow up in another state to qualify for in-state tuition.  In other words, unless you establish in-state residency (very difficult for the typical  high school student to pull off) before applying to the college, you end up paying the higher out-of-state rates for the duration of your 4 years of college education.  

  However, during that 4+ years, many out-of-state students do in fact become full time residents of our state.  They live here year round, pay taxes here, work here . . . and, yes, vote here.  Got a problem with that?

• Anonymous

  Actually, for reasons that are fairly obvious, colleges have made it very difficult for students who grow up in another state to qualify for in-state tuition.  In other words, unless you establish in-state residency (very difficult for the typical  high school student to pull off) before applying to the college, you end up paying the higher out-of-state rates for the duration of your 4 years of college education.  

  However, during that 4+ years, many out-of-state students do in fact become full time residents of our state.  They live here year round, pay taxes here, work here . . . and, yes, vote here.  Got a problem with that?

• Anonymous

  Actually, for reasons that are fairly obvious, colleges have made it very difficult for students who grow up in another state to qualify for in-state tuition.  In other words, unless you establish in-state residency (very difficult for the typical  high school student to pull off) before applying to the college, you end up paying the higher out-of-state rates for the duration of your 4 years of college education.  

  However, during that 4+ years, many out-of-state students do in fact become full time residents of our state.  They live here year round, pay taxes here, work here . . . and, yes, vote here.  Got a problem with that?

• Anonymous

  Actually, for reasons that are fairly obvious, colleges have made it very difficult for students who grow up in another state to qualify for in-state tuition.  In other words, unless you establish in-state residency (very difficult for the typical  high school student to pull off) before applying to the college, you end up paying the higher out-of-state rates for the duration of your 4 years of college education.  

  However, during that 4+ years, many out-of-state students do in fact become full time residents of our state.  They live here year round, pay taxes here, work here . . . and, yes, vote here.  Got a problem with that?

• Anonymous

  Charlie is a Small Business Owner, and so am I, we work extremely long hours, usually 24/7. He must be taking a huge financial hit to do what he is doing for the Republican Party. Charlie is working for the greater good of Maine’s hardworking people, who do not have a union. ( I don’t want a union, they have become to manipulative and are beholden to one political party). I think in the past 20 -30 years the Democratic Party has lost their past base of hardworking Joes & Janes. The Democrats now seem to have a base of liberal elitists being bred on college and university campuses.

• Anonymous

  I’m glad to see this will be investigated by the State, will wait for the answer.

• Anonymous

  Hey, Webster!  Where’s the beef?

• 525_44

  I farm. My hours are often relentless and then there is a lull in action like I have today.
  But that sign does appear to say only Republicans work and vote…

• 525_44

  I farm. My hours are often relentless and then there is a lull in action like I have today.
  But that sign does appear to say only Republicans work and vote…

• Anonymous

  You are saying that spending a few thousand dollars to prove whether voter fraud exists or not, will break the State’s budget?

  I would think we should be willing to invest hundreds of thousands into such an investigation, to protect the sanctity of the voting process.

• Anonymous

  You are saying that spending a few thousand dollars to prove whether voter fraud exists or not, will break the State’s budget?

  I would think we should be willing to invest hundreds of thousands into such an investigation, to protect the sanctity of the voting process.

• Anonymous

  You are saying that spending a few thousand dollars to prove whether voter fraud exists or not, will break the State’s budget?

  I would think we should be willing to invest hundreds of thousands into such an investigation, to protect the sanctity of the voting process.

• Anonymous

  You are saying that spending a few thousand dollars to prove whether voter fraud exists or not, will break the State’s budget?

  I would think we should be willing to invest hundreds of thousands into such an investigation, to protect the sanctity of the voting process.

• http://profiles.google.com/sdemetri Stephen Demetriou

  Truth? How many elections have been swayed by voter fraud in Maine? How many prosecutions of voter fraud have been conducted in Maine? How many convictions? Again, how many races have flipped because of voter fraud in Maine? Be honest, if you can.

  On the other hand, here’s a credible account of HONEST TO GOD VOTER FRAUD:

  “A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case includes
  a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election production system
  configuration that was in use in Ohio’s 2004 presidential election when
  there was a sudden and unexpected shift in votes for George W. Bush.

  The filing also includes the revealing deposition of the late Michael
  Connell. Connell served as the IT guru for the Bush family and Karl
  Rove. Connell ran the private IT firm GovTech that created the
  controversial system that transferred Ohio’s vote count late on election
  night 2004 to a partisan Republican server site in Chattanooga,
  Tennessee owned by SmarTech. That is when the vote shift happened, not
  predicted by the exit polls, that led to Bush’s unexpected victory.
  Connell died a month and a half after giving this deposition in a
  suspicious small plane crash.” (And there’s much more…)

  (Citation available on request, lest the naysayers that like to shoot the messenger ignore the court documents in favor of arguing about where the report appears.)

• http://profiles.google.com/sdemetri Stephen Demetriou

  Truth? How many elections have been swayed by voter fraud in Maine? How many prosecutions of voter fraud have been conducted in Maine? How many convictions? Again, how many races have flipped because of voter fraud in Maine? Be honest, if you can.

  On the other hand, here’s a credible account of HONEST TO GOD VOTER FRAUD:

  “A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case includes
  a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election production system
  configuration that was in use in Ohio’s 2004 presidential election when
  there was a sudden and unexpected shift in votes for George W. Bush.

  The filing also includes the revealing deposition of the late Michael
  Connell. Connell served as the IT guru for the Bush family and Karl
  Rove. Connell ran the private IT firm GovTech that created the
  controversial system that transferred Ohio’s vote count late on election
  night 2004 to a partisan Republican server site in Chattanooga,
  Tennessee owned by SmarTech. That is when the vote shift happened, not
  predicted by the exit polls, that led to Bush’s unexpected victory.
  Connell died a month and a half after giving this deposition in a
  suspicious small plane crash.” (And there’s much more…)

  (Citation available on request, lest the naysayers that like to shoot the messenger ignore the court documents in favor of arguing about where the report appears.)

• Anonymous

  Why are you against having to show some ID to vote? It is a very reasonable thing to ask one to provide.

• Anonymous

  Why are you against having to show some ID to vote? It is a very reasonable thing to ask one to provide.

• Anonymous

  That was enlightening.

• Anonymous

  That was enlightening.

• Anonymous

  I would think that the media in this State, would investigate such a claim. Since they hate Gov. LePage and the new Republican majority they should prove what “clowns” the Republicans are.

  Does the media already know the answer and not want it revealed?

• Anonymous

  I would think that the media in this State, would investigate such a claim. Since they hate Gov. LePage and the new Republican majority they should prove what “clowns” the Republicans are.

  Does the media already know the answer and not want it revealed?

• Anonymous

  I would think that the media in this State, would investigate such a claim. Since they hate Gov. LePage and the new Republican majority they should prove what “clowns” the Republicans are.

  Does the media already know the answer and not want it revealed?

• Anonymous

  I would think that the media in this State, would investigate such a claim. Since they hate Gov. LePage and the new Republican majority they should prove what “clowns” the Republicans are.

  Does the media already know the answer and not want it revealed?

• Anonymous

  I would think that the media in this State, would investigate such a claim. Since they hate Gov. LePage and the new Republican majority they should prove what “clowns” the Republicans are.

  Does the media already know the answer and not want it revealed?

• Anonymous

  I would think that the media in this State, would investigate such a claim. Since they hate Gov. LePage and the new Republican majority they should prove what “clowns” the Republicans are.

  Does the media already know the answer and not want it revealed?

• Anonymous

  I most certainly do as I had the exchange with the person but have no need to point it out to you.

• Anonymous

  Nope, we are not elite, as if that is now a bad thing.  Elitist is just another way of making your friends and neighbors into scary OTHERS who are going to take your job, freedom, whatever.  Democrats are just more likely to actually read and decide for themselves instead of taking everything Fox has to spew out as gospel.  If you think the GOP is helping small business, you are kidding yourself.  Big, mega, super business, yes.  GW Bush and those before him give the big breaks to the mega corps and let the small guys do the heavy lifting.  You might want to thank Pres. Obama for the tax breaks, though.  Neither party has a monopoly on hard workers.  If you care about the middle class, you ar batting for the wrong team, neighbor.

• Anonymous

  Which do you want YOUR political party to focus more on, making sure that everyone who votes is properly qualified to vote, or looking the other way and allowing unqualified people to vote in order to maximize the votes for your party?  Of course this will not tend to attract college voters to the GOP, and of course the left will attempt to use this to try to make young, naive, college students believe the GOP is out to hurt them or silence them, but despite knowing this, I’m happy to see that someone is trying to ensure that only those who are supposed to vote, actually do.

• Anonymous

  That from you….lol…all your posts trying to tell people what they think , etc.

  Pot kettle..

• listenuppeople

  Closet Republican maybe???  I knew a proffessor there who had to hide the truth about what party he belonged too. He hid it for years and never could speak out, All the others could speak out and rally, yet he was the odd man out..

• listenuppeople

  Closet Republican maybe???  I knew a proffessor there who had to hide the truth about what party he belonged too. He hid it for years and never could speak out, All the others could speak out and rally, yet he was the odd man out..

• listenuppeople

  Closet Republican maybe???  I knew a proffessor there who had to hide the truth about what party he belonged too. He hid it for years and never could speak out, All the others could speak out and rally, yet he was the odd man out..

• listenuppeople

  Closet Republican maybe???  I knew a proffessor there who had to hide the truth about what party he belonged too. He hid it for years and never could speak out, All the others could speak out and rally, yet he was the odd man out..

• listenuppeople

  Closet Republican maybe???  I knew a proffessor there who had to hide the truth about what party he belonged too. He hid it for years and never could speak out, All the others could speak out and rally, yet he was the odd man out..

• listenuppeople

  Closet Republican maybe???  I knew a proffessor there who had to hide the truth about what party he belonged too. He hid it for years and never could speak out, All the others could speak out and rally, yet he was the odd man out..

• listenuppeople

  Closet Republican maybe???  I knew a proffessor there who had to hide the truth about what party he belonged too. He hid it for years and never could speak out, All the others could speak out and rally, yet he was the odd man out..

• listenuppeople

  Closet Republican maybe???  I knew a proffessor there who had to hide the truth about what party he belonged too. He hid it for years and never could speak out, All the others could speak out and rally, yet he was the odd man out..

• Anonymous

  Thank you .. hard to type when seeing red.  

• Anonymous

  Thank you .. hard to type when seeing red.  

• Anonymous

  Thank you .. hard to type when seeing red.  

• Anonymous

  Thank you .. hard to type when seeing red.  

• Anonymous

  Thank you .. hard to type when seeing red.  

• Anonymous

  Another qualifying response from the liberals thank you

• Anonymous

  Another qualifying response from the liberals thank you

• Anonymous

  Another qualifying response from the liberals thank you

• Anonymous

  Another qualifying response from the liberals thank you

• Anonymous

  Now, if you are a Republician with a brain, you are darned RINO.

• Anonymous

  Now, if you are a Republician with a brain, you are darned RINO.

• Anonymous

  Now, if you are a Republician with a brain, you are darned RINO.

• Anonymous

  While they’re investigating the college students, why not investigate “snowbirds”, whose who winter in Florida, summer in the north?  I’ve heard a number of them brag about voting in Florida, and voting in Maine for the same election. This is after they’ve established residence for homestead purposes in Florida, and are driving around in their Cadillacs with the Florida plates.

  Their justification seems to be that they pay taxes in both locations.

• Anonymous

  While they’re investigating the college students, why not investigate “snowbirds”, whose who winter in Florida, summer in the north?  I’ve heard a number of them brag about voting in Florida, and voting in Maine for the same election. This is after they’ve established residence for homestead purposes in Florida, and are driving around in their Cadillacs with the Florida plates.

  Their justification seems to be that they pay taxes in both locations.

• Anonymous

  While they’re investigating the college students, why not investigate “snowbirds”, whose who winter in Florida, summer in the north?  I’ve heard a number of them brag about voting in Florida, and voting in Maine for the same election. This is after they’ve established residence for homestead purposes in Florida, and are driving around in their Cadillacs with the Florida plates.

  Their justification seems to be that they pay taxes in both locations.

• Anonymous

  While they’re investigating the college students, why not investigate “snowbirds”, whose who winter in Florida, summer in the north?  I’ve heard a number of them brag about voting in Florida, and voting in Maine for the same election. This is after they’ve established residence for homestead purposes in Florida, and are driving around in their Cadillacs with the Florida plates.

  Their justification seems to be that they pay taxes in both locations.

• Anonymous

  While they’re investigating the college students, why not investigate “snowbirds”, whose who winter in Florida, summer in the north?  I’ve heard a number of them brag about voting in Florida, and voting in Maine for the same election. This is after they’ve established residence for homestead purposes in Florida, and are driving around in their Cadillacs with the Florida plates.

  Their justification seems to be that they pay taxes in both locations.

• Anonymous

  While they’re investigating the college students, why not investigate “snowbirds”, whose who winter in Florida, summer in the north?  I’ve heard a number of them brag about voting in Florida, and voting in Maine for the same election. This is after they’ve established residence for homestead purposes in Florida, and are driving around in their Cadillacs with the Florida plates.

  Their justification seems to be that they pay taxes in both locations.

• Anonymous

  I
  find it amusing that the people that disagree with the tea party movement
  screech “McCarthyism” and invoke the name of Margaret Chase Smith and her “Declaration
  of Conscience”.

   

  McCarthy was pointing
  out that there were people in the movie industry and government that were Communists,
  and supporters of the USSR (a nation bent on the domination of the US). Was he
  overly enthusiastic? Without a doubt. Was he correct in his assertations?
  History seems to support him.

   

  The
  tea party movement is exercising the major points of her speech about
  Americanism. The right to criticize; The right to hold unpopular
  beliefs;  The right to protest; The right
  of independent thought. Yet the people that hate the tea party screech “McCarthyism”
  to demonize people that want to “save” the country.

   

  Is this hypocrisy
  or is it something else.

• Anonymous

  I
  find it amusing that the people that disagree with the tea party movement
  screech “McCarthyism” and invoke the name of Margaret Chase Smith and her “Declaration
  of Conscience”.

   

  McCarthy was pointing
  out that there were people in the movie industry and government that were Communists,
  and supporters of the USSR (a nation bent on the domination of the US). Was he
  overly enthusiastic? Without a doubt. Was he correct in his assertations?
  History seems to support him.

   

  The
  tea party movement is exercising the major points of her speech about
  Americanism. The right to criticize; The right to hold unpopular
  beliefs;  The right to protest; The right
  of independent thought. Yet the people that hate the tea party screech “McCarthyism”
  to demonize people that want to “save” the country.

   

  Is this hypocrisy
  or is it something else.

• Anonymous

  I
  find it amusing that the people that disagree with the tea party movement
  screech “McCarthyism” and invoke the name of Margaret Chase Smith and her “Declaration
  of Conscience”.

   

  McCarthy was pointing
  out that there were people in the movie industry and government that were Communists,
  and supporters of the USSR (a nation bent on the domination of the US). Was he
  overly enthusiastic? Without a doubt. Was he correct in his assertations?
  History seems to support him.

   

  The
  tea party movement is exercising the major points of her speech about
  Americanism. The right to criticize; The right to hold unpopular
  beliefs;  The right to protest; The right
  of independent thought. Yet the people that hate the tea party screech “McCarthyism”
  to demonize people that want to “save” the country.

   

  Is this hypocrisy
  or is it something else.

• Anonymous

  I
  find it amusing that the people that disagree with the tea party movement
  screech “McCarthyism” and invoke the name of Margaret Chase Smith and her “Declaration
  of Conscience”.

   

  McCarthy was pointing
  out that there were people in the movie industry and government that were Communists,
  and supporters of the USSR (a nation bent on the domination of the US). Was he
  overly enthusiastic? Without a doubt. Was he correct in his assertations?
  History seems to support him.

   

  The
  tea party movement is exercising the major points of her speech about
  Americanism. The right to criticize; The right to hold unpopular
  beliefs;  The right to protest; The right
  of independent thought. Yet the people that hate the tea party screech “McCarthyism”
  to demonize people that want to “save” the country.

   

  Is this hypocrisy
  or is it something else.

• Anonymous

  I
  find it amusing that the people that disagree with the tea party movement
  screech “McCarthyism” and invoke the name of Margaret Chase Smith and her “Declaration
  of Conscience”.

   

  McCarthy was pointing
  out that there were people in the movie industry and government that were Communists,
  and supporters of the USSR (a nation bent on the domination of the US). Was he
  overly enthusiastic? Without a doubt. Was he correct in his assertations?
  History seems to support him.

   

  The
  tea party movement is exercising the major points of her speech about
  Americanism. The right to criticize; The right to hold unpopular
  beliefs;  The right to protest; The right
  of independent thought. Yet the people that hate the tea party screech “McCarthyism”
  to demonize people that want to “save” the country.

   

  Is this hypocrisy
  or is it something else.

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Working People who Vote Republican are Quislings.  

• Anonymous

  Ok, but right after we’ll need to launch an investigation into whether or not small business owners in Maine are conspiring to share classified information with the North Koreans.  I heard that somewhere, and I’ll come up with a list of names tonight.

  There’s nothing wrong with investigating fraud, and there’s nothing wrong with requiring people to identify themselves before voting (that I know of).  There is something wrong with conning the state into investigating a totally unsupported claim. 

• Anonymous

  Ok, but right after we’ll need to launch an investigation into whether or not small business owners in Maine are conspiring to share classified information with the North Koreans.  I heard that somewhere, and I’ll come up with a list of names tonight.

  There’s nothing wrong with investigating fraud, and there’s nothing wrong with requiring people to identify themselves before voting (that I know of).  There is something wrong with conning the state into investigating a totally unsupported claim. 

• Anonymous

  Ok, but right after we’ll need to launch an investigation into whether or not small business owners in Maine are conspiring to share classified information with the North Koreans.  I heard that somewhere, and I’ll come up with a list of names tonight.

  There’s nothing wrong with investigating fraud, and there’s nothing wrong with requiring people to identify themselves before voting (that I know of).  There is something wrong with conning the state into investigating a totally unsupported claim. 

• Anonymous

  Ok, but right after we’ll need to launch an investigation into whether or not small business owners in Maine are conspiring to share classified information with the North Koreans.  I heard that somewhere, and I’ll come up with a list of names tonight.

  There’s nothing wrong with investigating fraud, and there’s nothing wrong with requiring people to identify themselves before voting (that I know of).  There is something wrong with conning the state into investigating a totally unsupported claim. 

• Anonymous

  Ok, but right after we’ll need to launch an investigation into whether or not small business owners in Maine are conspiring to share classified information with the North Koreans.  I heard that somewhere, and I’ll come up with a list of names tonight.

  There’s nothing wrong with investigating fraud, and there’s nothing wrong with requiring people to identify themselves before voting (that I know of).  There is something wrong with conning the state into investigating a totally unsupported claim. 

• Anonymous

  Ok, but right after we’ll need to launch an investigation into whether or not small business owners in Maine are conspiring to share classified information with the North Koreans.  I heard that somewhere, and I’ll come up with a list of names tonight.

  There’s nothing wrong with investigating fraud, and there’s nothing wrong with requiring people to identify themselves before voting (that I know of).  There is something wrong with conning the state into investigating a totally unsupported claim. 

• Anonymous

  Ok, but right after we’ll need to launch an investigation into whether or not small business owners in Maine are conspiring to share classified information with the North Koreans.  I heard that somewhere, and I’ll come up with a list of names tonight.

  There’s nothing wrong with investigating fraud, and there’s nothing wrong with requiring people to identify themselves before voting (that I know of).  There is something wrong with conning the state into investigating a totally unsupported claim. 

• Anonymous

  Ok, but right after we’ll need to launch an investigation into whether or not small business owners in Maine are conspiring to share classified information with the North Koreans.  I heard that somewhere, and I’ll come up with a list of names tonight.

  There’s nothing wrong with investigating fraud, and there’s nothing wrong with requiring people to identify themselves before voting (that I know of).  There is something wrong with conning the state into investigating a totally unsupported claim. 

• Anonymous

  Ok, but right after we’ll need to launch an investigation into whether or not small business owners in Maine are conspiring to share classified information with the North Koreans.  I heard that somewhere, and I’ll come up with a list of names tonight.

  There’s nothing wrong with investigating fraud, and there’s nothing wrong with requiring people to identify themselves before voting (that I know of).  There is something wrong with conning the state into investigating a totally unsupported claim. 

• Anonymous

  Ok, but right after we’ll need to launch an investigation into whether or not small business owners in Maine are conspiring to share classified information with the North Koreans.  I heard that somewhere, and I’ll come up with a list of names tonight.

  There’s nothing wrong with investigating fraud, and there’s nothing wrong with requiring people to identify themselves before voting (that I know of).  There is something wrong with conning the state into investigating a totally unsupported claim. 

• Anonymous

  Ok, but right after we’ll need to launch an investigation into whether or not small business owners in Maine are conspiring to share classified information with the North Koreans.  I heard that somewhere, and I’ll come up with a list of names tonight.

  There’s nothing wrong with investigating fraud, and there’s nothing wrong with requiring people to identify themselves before voting (that I know of).  There is something wrong with conning the state into investigating a totally unsupported claim. 

• Anonymous

  Yes, “Mr. Webster has made a very serious charge “  publicly , in the press, with no evidence.

   So your traditional values are to now panic…. and call all the hysteria as American as apple pie.
  LOL

  So was any crime committed or just a witch hunt started ?
    

• Anonymous

  No I don’t think investing one nickle of the taxpayers money into empty political accusations is worth it. If there is evidence of a crime then yes. So far this political hack has only provided a list of names. No proof that they voted illegally or if they voted at all. As the little old lady in the old Burger King commercials used to say “Where’s the beef?”

• Anonymous

  No I don’t think investing one nickle of the taxpayers money into empty political accusations is worth it. If there is evidence of a crime then yes. So far this political hack has only provided a list of names. No proof that they voted illegally or if they voted at all. As the little old lady in the old Burger King commercials used to say “Where’s the beef?”

• Anonymous

  It WOULD be great, if it were true.
  Why do conservatives lie so much ? 

• Anonymous

  It WOULD be great, if it were true.
  Why do conservatives lie so much ? 

• Anonymous

  In case you didn’t know it, there is NO law on the books that makes it illegal to be a member of the communist party.

• Anonymous

  Yeah, they won’t be able bring in busloads of ringers to vote conservative, anymore.

  Evidence ?
  Why ?
  Conservatives … like the head of the State GOP, for one example, don’t need any.
  Who’s against a fair level playing field ?

• Anonymous

  Yeah, they won’t be able bring in busloads of ringers to vote conservative, anymore.

  Evidence ?
  Why ?
  Conservatives … like the head of the State GOP, for one example, don’t need any.
  Who’s against a fair level playing field ?

• Anonymous

  Yeah, they won’t be able bring in busloads of ringers to vote conservative, anymore.

  Evidence ?
  Why ?
  Conservatives … like the head of the State GOP, for one example, don’t need any.
  Who’s against a fair level playing field ?

• Anonymous

  So how up to date are conserrvative opinions ?
  Raising the question how relavant are they.

• Anonymous

  So how up to date are conserrvative opinions ?
  Raising the question how relavant are they.

• Anonymous

  So how up to date are conserrvative opinions ?
  Raising the question how relavant are they.

• Anonymous

  That happens to young people who go to too damed liberal camp meetings, now.

• Anonymous

  That happens to young people who go to too damed liberal camp meetings, now.

• Anonymous

  :)  I’ve always assumed the polls are just a method of tricking people to read the articles they’re associated with and increase web hits.  Since they’re not really informative about anything I don’t really see a reason to include them on a news page.

• Anonymous

  :)  I’ve always assumed the polls are just a method of tricking people to read the articles they’re associated with and increase web hits.  Since they’re not really informative about anything I don’t really see a reason to include them on a news page.

• Anonymous

  :)  I’ve always assumed the polls are just a method of tricking people to read the articles they’re associated with and increase web hits.  Since they’re not really informative about anything I don’t really see a reason to include them on a news page.

• Anonymous

  :)  I’ve always assumed the polls are just a method of tricking people to read the articles they’re associated with and increase web hits.  Since they’re not really informative about anything I don’t really see a reason to include them on a news page.

• Anonymous

  :)  I’ve always assumed the polls are just a method of tricking people to read the articles they’re associated with and increase web hits.  Since they’re not really informative about anything I don’t really see a reason to include them on a news page.

• Anonymous

  :)  I’ve always assumed the polls are just a method of tricking people to read the articles they’re associated with and increase web hits.  Since they’re not really informative about anything I don’t really see a reason to include them on a news page.

• Anonymous

  :)  I’ve always assumed the polls are just a method of tricking people to read the articles they’re associated with and increase web hits.  Since they’re not really informative about anything I don’t really see a reason to include them on a news page.

• Anonymous

  :)  I’ve always assumed the polls are just a method of tricking people to read the articles they’re associated with and increase web hits.  Since they’re not really informative about anything I don’t really see a reason to include them on a news page.

• Anonymous

  “if someone is diluting your vote by commiting voter fraud then the
  response should be to support the investigation of it rather then
  attacking the accuser.”

  Right.  So if I encounter any actual reason to believe that there’s voter fraud going on, I’ll support an investigation. I think that’s been a central point of the whole article and discussion, despite the way the BDN title partly implies that voter fraud has actually occurred.

• Anonymous

  “if someone is diluting your vote by commiting voter fraud then the
  response should be to support the investigation of it rather then
  attacking the accuser.”

  Right.  So if I encounter any actual reason to believe that there’s voter fraud going on, I’ll support an investigation. I think that’s been a central point of the whole article and discussion, despite the way the BDN title partly implies that voter fraud has actually occurred.

• Anonymous

  Pathetic is a vapid old harpy with access to a keyboard.

• Anonymous

  Pathetic is a vapid old harpy with access to a keyboard.

• Anonymous

  Pathetic is a vapid old harpy with access to a keyboard.

• Anonymous

  The burden of proof is on the prosecution, not the defense.

• Anonymous

  The burden of proof is on the prosecution, not the defense.

• Anonymous

  Like most GOP leaders today, Webster is scum. The GOP is trying to rig elections in their favor at every turn. You didn’t see Webster complaining when his Party was jamming the DEms get out the vote phone lines. And their ONLY-CARE-ABOUT-THE-RICH agenda is ruining AMERICA.

  TAKE MY PLEDGE AMERICA: I will never vote for a Republican ever again.

• Anonymous

  Like most GOP leaders today, Webster is scum. The GOP is trying to rig elections in their favor at every turn. You didn’t see Webster complaining when his Party was jamming the DEms get out the vote phone lines. And their ONLY-CARE-ABOUT-THE-RICH agenda is ruining AMERICA.

  TAKE MY PLEDGE AMERICA: I will never vote for a Republican ever again.

• Anonymous

  Hey when I was a student at UMaine, I never saw one case of voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Maybe it is just “runt of the litter” political showboating, maybe it is putting the AG’s office on notice that this “investigation” will be seen and should be pursued with due diligence.

  Yes, I know that the AG is appointed by the governor but after 30 years of rule by the “loyal opposition” running things can we really think there is no partisanship left?

  You claim “His “Special interest group” rant” ruins his credibility. That is just BS he would not have any credibility with you if he started spouting your crap.

• Anonymous

  Maybe it is just “runt of the litter” political showboating, maybe it is putting the AG’s office on notice that this “investigation” will be seen and should be pursued with due diligence.

  Yes, I know that the AG is appointed by the governor but after 30 years of rule by the “loyal opposition” running things can we really think there is no partisanship left?

  You claim “His “Special interest group” rant” ruins his credibility. That is just BS he would not have any credibility with you if he started spouting your crap.

• Anonymous

  Maybe it is just “runt of the litter” political showboating, maybe it is putting the AG’s office on notice that this “investigation” will be seen and should be pursued with due diligence.

  Yes, I know that the AG is appointed by the governor but after 30 years of rule by the “loyal opposition” running things can we really think there is no partisanship left?

  You claim “His “Special interest group” rant” ruins his credibility. That is just BS he would not have any credibility with you if he started spouting your crap.

• Anonymous

  Maybe it is just “runt of the litter” political showboating, maybe it is putting the AG’s office on notice that this “investigation” will be seen and should be pursued with due diligence.

  Yes, I know that the AG is appointed by the governor but after 30 years of rule by the “loyal opposition” running things can we really think there is no partisanship left?

  You claim “His “Special interest group” rant” ruins his credibility. That is just BS he would not have any credibility with you if he started spouting your crap.

• Anonymous

  Maybe it is just “runt of the litter” political showboating, maybe it is putting the AG’s office on notice that this “investigation” will be seen and should be pursued with due diligence.

  Yes, I know that the AG is appointed by the governor but after 30 years of rule by the “loyal opposition” running things can we really think there is no partisanship left?

  You claim “His “Special interest group” rant” ruins his credibility. That is just BS he would not have any credibility with you if he started spouting your crap.

• Anonymous

  Maybe it is just “runt of the litter” political showboating, maybe it is putting the AG’s office on notice that this “investigation” will be seen and should be pursued with due diligence.

  Yes, I know that the AG is appointed by the governor but after 30 years of rule by the “loyal opposition” running things can we really think there is no partisanship left?

  You claim “His “Special interest group” rant” ruins his credibility. That is just BS he would not have any credibility with you if he started spouting your crap.

• Anonymous

  Maybe it is just “runt of the litter” political showboating, maybe it is putting the AG’s office on notice that this “investigation” will be seen and should be pursued with due diligence.

  Yes, I know that the AG is appointed by the governor but after 30 years of rule by the “loyal opposition” running things can we really think there is no partisanship left?

  You claim “His “Special interest group” rant” ruins his credibility. That is just BS he would not have any credibility with you if he started spouting your crap.

• Anonymous

  Maybe it is just “runt of the litter” political showboating, maybe it is putting the AG’s office on notice that this “investigation” will be seen and should be pursued with due diligence.

  Yes, I know that the AG is appointed by the governor but after 30 years of rule by the “loyal opposition” running things can we really think there is no partisanship left?

  You claim “His “Special interest group” rant” ruins his credibility. That is just BS he would not have any credibility with you if he started spouting your crap.

• Anonymous

  Maybe it is just “runt of the litter” political showboating, maybe it is putting the AG’s office on notice that this “investigation” will be seen and should be pursued with due diligence.

  Yes, I know that the AG is appointed by the governor but after 30 years of rule by the “loyal opposition” running things can we really think there is no partisanship left?

  You claim “His “Special interest group” rant” ruins his credibility. That is just BS he would not have any credibility with you if he started spouting your crap.

• Anonymous

  Maybe it is just “runt of the litter” political showboating, maybe it is putting the AG’s office on notice that this “investigation” will be seen and should be pursued with due diligence.

  Yes, I know that the AG is appointed by the governor but after 30 years of rule by the “loyal opposition” running things can we really think there is no partisanship left?

  You claim “His “Special interest group” rant” ruins his credibility. That is just BS he would not have any credibility with you if he started spouting your crap.

• Anonymous

  Maybe it is just “runt of the litter” political showboating, maybe it is putting the AG’s office on notice that this “investigation” will be seen and should be pursued with due diligence.

  Yes, I know that the AG is appointed by the governor but after 30 years of rule by the “loyal opposition” running things can we really think there is no partisanship left?

  You claim “His “Special interest group” rant” ruins his credibility. That is just BS he would not have any credibility with you if he started spouting your crap.

• Anonymous

  Maybe it is just “runt of the litter” political showboating, maybe it is putting the AG’s office on notice that this “investigation” will be seen and should be pursued with due diligence.

  Yes, I know that the AG is appointed by the governor but after 30 years of rule by the “loyal opposition” running things can we really think there is no partisanship left?

  You claim “His “Special interest group” rant” ruins his credibility. That is just BS he would not have any credibility with you if he started spouting your crap.

• Anonymous

  Maybe it is just “runt of the litter” political showboating, maybe it is putting the AG’s office on notice that this “investigation” will be seen and should be pursued with due diligence.

  Yes, I know that the AG is appointed by the governor but after 30 years of rule by the “loyal opposition” running things can we really think there is no partisanship left?

  You claim “His “Special interest group” rant” ruins his credibility. That is just BS he would not have any credibility with you if he started spouting your crap.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Burke/1573712155 Daniel Burke

  Dems are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Burke/1573712155 Daniel Burke

  Dems are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Burke/1573712155 Daniel Burke

  Dems are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Both political parties are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Both political parties are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Both political parties are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Both political parties are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Both political parties are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Both political parties are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Both political parties are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Both political parties are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Both political parties are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Both political parties are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Both political parties are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Both political parties are the party of lying, corruption, and voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote for Republicans, they get screwed by Republicans.

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  So it is the democrats fault that the vote in Florida was so close they recounted? Why not blame Ralph Nadar, or Pat Buchanan?

• Anonymous

  Charlie Webster better watch out or he will find himself slapped with a defamation lawsuit filed by these students that he is accusing of criminal activity. 

• http://profiles.google.com/sdemetri Stephen Demetriou

  The GOP IS out to hurt them. Cuts to education and lack of student loans don’t help them. 

  You want voter fraud, I’ll give you voter fraud:

  “A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case includes
  a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election production system 
  configuration that was in use in Ohio’s 2004 presidential election when 
  there was a sudden and unexpected shift in votes for George W. Bush.

  The filing also includes the revealing deposition of the late Michael 
  Connell. Connell served as the IT guru for the Bush family and Karl 
  Rove. Connell ran the private IT firm GovTech that created the 
  controversial system that transferred Ohio’s vote count late on election
  night 2004 to a partisan Republican server site in Chattanooga, 
  Tennessee owned by SmarTech. That is when the vote shift happened, not 
  predicted by the exit polls, that led to Bush’s unexpected victory. 
  Connell died a month and a half after giving this deposition in a 
  suspicious small plane crash.” (And there’s much more…)

  (Citation available on request, lest the naysayers that like to shoot the messenger ignore the court documents in favor of arguing about where the report appears.)

• Anonymous

  I have no idea where you are going with response 1. I can only say that my grandson is paying back his student loans at the rate of $600 per month. He has living costs just like everyone else who graduates from any college. He paid rent the whole time he attended MMA plus he also worked part time at BIA to help pay his way. 

  Are you the loan officer for student loans? And can you show a source that the state is subsidizing MMA $9 million per year? Why are you so dissatisfied with the student product that MMA is able to produce? You obviously seem to have a personal agenda against this particular college.

• Anonymous

  As did I, Pat.  Raised in a moderate GOP family – Sen. Margaret Chase Smith and Gov. John Reed were highly respected – I arrived at UMO right off the farm.  I think that was where I met the first people I knew who called themselves liberal, but there were plenty of faculty and administrators who were more conservative than most of the Republicans I grew up amongst up ta The County.  My parents always taught me to respect others’ views, but it was at Orono that I encountered many diverse perspectives, and I’m the better for it.

• Anonymous

  Yeah, right!

• Anonymous

  Yeah, right!

• Anonymous

  Yeah, right!

• Anonymous

  Yeah, right!

• Anonymous

  Yeah, right!

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote Republican….wackos obviously do and that party is going to pay for it.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote Republican….wackos obviously do and that party is going to pay for it.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote Republican….wackos obviously do and that party is going to pay for it.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote Republican….wackos obviously do and that party is going to pay for it.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote Republican….wackos obviously do and that party is going to pay for it.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote Republican….wackos obviously do and that party is going to pay for it.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote Republican….wackos obviously do and that party is going to pay for it.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote Republican….wackos obviously do and that party is going to pay for it.

• Anonymous

  Working people don’t vote Republican….wackos obviously do and that party is going to pay for it.

• Anonymous

  Go for it, I’d go along.

• Anonymous

  Go for it, I’d go along.

• Anonymous

  Go for it, I’d go along.

• Anonymous

  Go for it, I’d go along.

• Anonymous

  Go for it, I’d go along.

• Anonymous

  That sounds like voter fraud that ought to be looked into too and I’m glad it is. But maybe you should ask yourself why you aren’t pleased that voter fraud committed by students is also going to be looked into.

• Anonymous

  That sounds like voter fraud that ought to be looked into too and I’m glad it is. But maybe you should ask yourself why you aren’t pleased that voter fraud committed by students is also going to be looked into.

• Anonymous

  I was just pointing out that the Democrats were the ones to try to “determine the intent” of voters that could not make sure the chad had cleared.

   I do not blame anyone for causing a recount.

• Anonymous

  I was just pointing out that the Democrats were the ones to try to “determine the intent” of voters that could not make sure the chad had cleared.

   I do not blame anyone for causing a recount.

• Anonymous

  I am a student at U-Maine, and have several friends attending at Colby,
  and have never seen or heard of any examples of voter fraud.  This just
  wreaks of republican fear mongering.  They are trying to scare and 
  intimidate the poor and working class people of Maine into limiting our
  own ability to vote, by suggesting that the only way to prevent voter fraud is to prevent  same-day registration.   
  The republican party has become a total disgrace.  Whether it be cuts in
  education(pell grant cuts/retirement cuts), SS, or Medicare..or now the
  possible budget default…all seem to be done under the name of tax
  breaks for the wealthy.  All over the country, through national and
  local news, you can read stories of attacks on the rights of the poor
  and working class, and nearly all the programs and services that are in
  place to help them.   Just disgusting, and here we have another example
  of a republican official that would rather use scare tactics to achieve
  his agenda, than listen to the people he is supposed to represent.

• Anonymous

  Do you have personal knowledge of these allegations or are you guilty of libel?

  WE need proof.

• Anonymous

  I am not panicking at all.  Mr. Webster has claimed the 2010 election was fraudulent. He claims to have proof. Had his party lost the election then I would tend to say it was “sour grapes”. However his party won the election which he is contending was fraudulent. Based on what Mr. Webster is telling us his party came to power as a result of a fraudulent election. Therefore I do not feel it is far fetched at all to feel he must be on to something. What Mr. Webster has done is call into question the election of a Republican majority in both the Maine House and Senate. Furthermore he has also called into question the election of Paul LePage as Governor of the State of Maine. Elections are the foundation of our democracy. If fraud took place as Mr. Webster claims , and I have no reason to belief he is lying, then the results should be declared null and void and a new election should be held.   

• Anonymous

  I am not panicking at all.  Mr. Webster has claimed the 2010 election was fraudulent. He claims to have proof. Had his party lost the election then I would tend to say it was “sour grapes”. However his party won the election which he is contending was fraudulent. Based on what Mr. Webster is telling us his party came to power as a result of a fraudulent election. Therefore I do not feel it is far fetched at all to feel he must be on to something. What Mr. Webster has done is call into question the election of a Republican majority in both the Maine House and Senate. Furthermore he has also called into question the election of Paul LePage as Governor of the State of Maine. Elections are the foundation of our democracy. If fraud took place as Mr. Webster claims , and I have no reason to belief he is lying, then the results should be declared null and void and a new election should be held.   

• Anonymous

  I can understand not getting married more than once, but what would be the drawback of voting twice? Especially since there is no evidence of voting fraud.

• Anonymous

  I can understand not getting married more than once, but what would be the drawback of voting twice? Especially since there is no evidence of voting fraud.

• Anonymous

  Come on, you must know by now that students can not get IDs and it costs too much for the elderly and poor to afford to get it

• Anonymous

  Come on, you must know by now that students can not get IDs and it costs too much for the elderly and poor to afford to get it

• Anonymous

  Then prove that. give us evidence.

• Anonymous

  Then prove that. give us evidence.

• Anonymous

  I would think that most people could show proof of their lack of a criminal record.

• Anonymous

  I would think that most people could show proof of their lack of a criminal record.

• Anonymous

  Blame Bush ark blame Bush ark

• Anonymous

  Blame Bush ark blame Bush ark

• Anonymous

  Blame Bush ark blame Bush ark

• Anonymous

  Blame Bush ark blame Bush ark

• Anonymous

  Blame Bush ark blame Bush ark

• Anonymous

  Being right is no longer a defense? there is a frightening thought.

• Anonymous

  No, but there are laws against giving aid to enemies, and espionage.

• Anonymous

  No, but there are laws against giving aid to enemies, and espionage.

• Anonymous

  I will try to state the concept clearly enough for you to understand it.

  Person A belongs to the Communist party. Joe McCarthy accuses Person B of belonging to the Communist party. The fact that Person A belongs to the Communist party is not a defense for someone who falsely claims that Person B is a member.

• Anonymous

  Maybe just because liberals lie more, maybe just because they are politicians.

• Anonymous

  I do not tell anybody what they think, they should already know what they think.

  i was just pointing out the obvious.

• Anonymous

  I do not tell anybody what they think, they should already know what they think.

  i was just pointing out the obvious.

• Anonymous

  A 1939 movie proves something? A suit based on such evidence would be laughed out of court.

• http://profiles.google.com/sdemetri Stephen Demetriou

  There are laws in place that deal with voter fraud. It is virtually non-existent in Maine. It is so rare it is ridiculous to waste time on this witchhunt. It happens so infrequently, at such a low frequency that I seriously question whether ANY election in Maine has ever been even close to being decided based on fraudulent votes. And if a candidate believes there is the possibility they lost an election due to voter fraud and double voting, there are the laws already on the books to deal with that.

  This is more GOP BS. They have become the party of BS, wasting time and money on nothing of any use to anyone except themselves. 

• http://profiles.google.com/sdemetri Stephen Demetriou

  There are laws in place that deal with voter fraud. It is virtually non-existent in Maine. It is so rare it is ridiculous to waste time on this witchhunt. It happens so infrequently, at such a low frequency that I seriously question whether ANY election in Maine has ever been even close to being decided based on fraudulent votes. And if a candidate believes there is the possibility they lost an election due to voter fraud and double voting, there are the laws already on the books to deal with that.

  This is more GOP BS. They have become the party of BS, wasting time and money on nothing of any use to anyone except themselves. 

• Anonymous

  Nope, but you can not prove anything to someone that is unwilling to seek the truth.

• Anonymous

  Nope, but you can not prove anything to someone that is unwilling to seek the truth.

• Anonymous

  Nope, but you can not prove anything to someone that is unwilling to seek the truth.

• Anonymous

  Nope, but you can not prove anything to someone that is unwilling to seek the truth.

• Anonymous

  Nope, but you can not prove anything to someone that is unwilling to seek the truth.

• Anonymous

  Nope, but you can not prove anything to someone that is unwilling to seek the truth.

• Anonymous

  Nope, but you can not prove anything to someone that is unwilling to seek the truth.

• Anonymous

  Nope, but you can not prove anything to someone that is unwilling to seek the truth.

• Anonymous

  Most people who study these issues seriously would say that Maine in many ways is economically backwards.  Some of this has to do with a lack of youthful energy and diversity of ideas.  Maine is an old state with a lack of diversity.  These are simply the facts.  States that are performing better in this globalized 21st century economy tend to welcome new ideas and new faces (Texas, New York and North Carolina are 3 examples of states that are performing better than average while embracing the demographic issues I have mentioned) 
  You can spout nameless, anonymous venom as much as you like.  I’ll be able to vote despite your efforts.

• Anonymous

  Most people who study these issues seriously would say that Maine in many ways is economically backwards.  Some of this has to do with a lack of youthful energy and diversity of ideas.  Maine is an old state with a lack of diversity.  These are simply the facts.  States that are performing better in this globalized 21st century economy tend to welcome new ideas and new faces (Texas, New York and North Carolina are 3 examples of states that are performing better than average while embracing the demographic issues I have mentioned) 
  You can spout nameless, anonymous venom as much as you like.  I’ll be able to vote despite your efforts.

• Anonymous

  Most people who study these issues seriously would say that Maine in many ways is economically backwards.  Some of this has to do with a lack of youthful energy and diversity of ideas.  Maine is an old state with a lack of diversity.  These are simply the facts.  States that are performing better in this globalized 21st century economy tend to welcome new ideas and new faces (Texas, New York and North Carolina are 3 examples of states that are performing better than average while embracing the demographic issues I have mentioned) 
  You can spout nameless, anonymous venom as much as you like.  I’ll be able to vote despite your efforts.

• Anonymous

  Most people who study these issues seriously would say that Maine in many ways is economically backwards.  Some of this has to do with a lack of youthful energy and diversity of ideas.  Maine is an old state with a lack of diversity.  These are simply the facts.  States that are performing better in this globalized 21st century economy tend to welcome new ideas and new faces (Texas, New York and North Carolina are 3 examples of states that are performing better than average while embracing the demographic issues I have mentioned) 
  You can spout nameless, anonymous venom as much as you like.  I’ll be able to vote despite your efforts.

• Anonymous

  Most people who study these issues seriously would say that Maine in many ways is economically backwards.  Some of this has to do with a lack of youthful energy and diversity of ideas.  Maine is an old state with a lack of diversity.  These are simply the facts.  States that are performing better in this globalized 21st century economy tend to welcome new ideas and new faces (Texas, New York and North Carolina are 3 examples of states that are performing better than average while embracing the demographic issues I have mentioned) 
  You can spout nameless, anonymous venom as much as you like.  I’ll be able to vote despite your efforts.

• Anonymous

  Most people who study these issues seriously would say that Maine in many ways is economically backwards.  Some of this has to do with a lack of youthful energy and diversity of ideas.  Maine is an old state with a lack of diversity.  These are simply the facts.  States that are performing better in this globalized 21st century economy tend to welcome new ideas and new faces (Texas, New York and North Carolina are 3 examples of states that are performing better than average while embracing the demographic issues I have mentioned) 
  You can spout nameless, anonymous venom as much as you like.  I’ll be able to vote despite your efforts.

• Anonymous

  Most people who study these issues seriously would say that Maine in many ways is economically backwards.  Some of this has to do with a lack of youthful energy and diversity of ideas.  Maine is an old state with a lack of diversity.  These are simply the facts.  States that are performing better in this globalized 21st century economy tend to welcome new ideas and new faces (Texas, New York and North Carolina are 3 examples of states that are performing better than average while embracing the demographic issues I have mentioned) 
  You can spout nameless, anonymous venom as much as you like.  I’ll be able to vote despite your efforts.

• Anonymous

  Most people who study these issues seriously would say that Maine in many ways is economically backwards.  Some of this has to do with a lack of youthful energy and diversity of ideas.  Maine is an old state with a lack of diversity.  These are simply the facts.  States that are performing better in this globalized 21st century economy tend to welcome new ideas and new faces (Texas, New York and North Carolina are 3 examples of states that are performing better than average while embracing the demographic issues I have mentioned) 
  You can spout nameless, anonymous venom as much as you like.  I’ll be able to vote despite your efforts.

• Anonymous

  Disqus generic email templateThe ‘”burden of proof” you are referring to applies to criminal proceedings. Not the right to vote.

• Anonymous

  Disqus generic email templateThe ‘”burden of proof” you are referring to applies to criminal proceedings. Not the right to vote.

• Anonymous

  Disqus generic email templateThe ‘”burden of proof” you are referring to applies to criminal proceedings. Not the right to vote.

• Anonymous

  Disqus generic email templateThe ‘”burden of proof” you are referring to applies to criminal proceedings. Not the right to vote.

• Anonymous

  Disqus generic email templateThe ‘”burden of proof” you are referring to applies to criminal proceedings. Not the right to vote.

• Anonymous

  Disqus generic email templateThe ‘”burden of proof” you are referring to applies to criminal proceedings. Not the right to vote.

• Anonymous

  Disqus generic email templateThe ‘”burden of proof” you are referring to applies to criminal proceedings. Not the right to vote.

• Anonymous

  Disqus generic email templateThe ‘”burden of proof” you are referring to applies to criminal proceedings. Not the right to vote.

• Anonymous

  No, but I would bet you a dollar that every illegal that votes, votes Democrat. Please prove me wrong.

• Anonymous

  No, but I would bet you a dollar that every illegal that votes, votes Democrat. Please prove me wrong.

• Anonymous

  I love it when annonymous people get personal on these message boards.  Hope you feel strong.  Some proof of cheating would make your response somewhat credible, but whatever…you dont want college students and grads staying in Maine?  Fine, roll with it then.

• Anonymous

  Disqus generic email templateProving you have the right to vote is no different than proving your right to drive, fish, hunt, etc., etc. You may have the right, but you may be required to show evidence of the right.

• Anonymous

  Disqus generic email templateProving you have the right to vote is no different than proving your right to drive, fish, hunt, etc., etc. You may have the right, but you may be required to show evidence of the right.

• Anonymous

  I don’t think that he claimed that his list was proof of anything, excepy 206 University of Maine Students that came from out of state voted in Orono. He asked if the State  government could find out if they also voted in the state that they came from.

  I do not think he ever said that they did.

  The issue has been distorted. On purpose? Probably but I have no proof. But this is a very political issue.

• SwiftyMorgain

  That was a Spoof, Larry!

  Spoof, spoofs, spoofer, or spoofing may refer to:Parody by imitation par·o·dy   /ˈpærədi/ Show Spelled [par-uh-dee] Show IPA noun, plural -dies, verb, -died, -dy·ing.
  –noun 1. a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet’s soliloquy.

• SwiftyMorgain

  That was a Spoof, Larry!

  Spoof, spoofs, spoofer, or spoofing may refer to:Parody by imitation par·o·dy   /ˈpærədi/ Show Spelled [par-uh-dee] Show IPA noun, plural -dies, verb, -died, -dy·ing.
  –noun 1. a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet’s soliloquy.

• SwiftyMorgain

  That was a Spoof, Larry!

  Spoof, spoofs, spoofer, or spoofing may refer to:Parody by imitation par·o·dy   /ˈpærədi/ Show Spelled [par-uh-dee] Show IPA noun, plural -dies, verb, -died, -dy·ing.
  –noun 1. a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet’s soliloquy.

• SwiftyMorgain

  That was a Spoof, Larry!

  Spoof, spoofs, spoofer, or spoofing may refer to:Parody by imitation par·o·dy   /ˈpærədi/ Show Spelled [par-uh-dee] Show IPA noun, plural -dies, verb, -died, -dy·ing.
  –noun 1. a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet’s soliloquy.

• Anonymous

  I agree, and pointed out that he was overly enthusiastic, but many criminal investigations look at “known associates” especially crimes that include conspiracy.

  Yes it was wrong to have this a public hearing. I have never heard why this was public. If there was an official investigation, it would never have been publicized.

• Anonymous

  I agree, and pointed out that he was overly enthusiastic, but many criminal investigations look at “known associates” especially crimes that include conspiracy.

  Yes it was wrong to have this a public hearing. I have never heard why this was public. If there was an official investigation, it would never have been publicized.

• Anonymous

  I would think that Jimmy Stewart would be outraged to hear you say that his performance was a “spoof”.

• Anonymous

  I would think that Jimmy Stewart would be outraged to hear you say that his performance was a “spoof”.

• Anonymous

  I would think that Jimmy Stewart would be outraged to hear you say that his performance was a “spoof”.

• Anonymous

  I would think that Jimmy Stewart would be outraged to hear you say that his performance was a “spoof”.

• Anonymous

  I would think that Jimmy Stewart would be outraged to hear you say that his performance was a “spoof”.

• SwiftyMorgain

     Jimmy Stewart was my Uncles Commanding Officer in the Air Force during WWII, and from what I was told he had an excellent sense of humour.

  Outraged to use his excellant work to illustrate Mr Websters obsession with finding the perpetraitors of an illusionary crime. I doubt it!

     I beleive  that he would be outraged however by the current refusal for the Republican Party to pay for the wars that they created!

• Anonymous

  No, I was pretty open about things political.  I wouldn’t feel the least bit intimidated in expressing conservative views at UMaine.

  Conservatives, unfortunately, are often their own worst enemies as they express their views.  Just calling other people “liberal Democrats” and assuming that a point has been proved, doesn’t help the cause.   Reinforcing the stereotype of the conservative as some sort of brute, doesn’t help much, either.  Accusing the Democrats of being heavy-handed, and then egging a Republican to “never compromise” also hurts the cause in the long run.

  Since you’re a fair-minded, thoughtful poster, I’m sure you’ll agree.

• Anonymous

  No, I was pretty open about things political.  I wouldn’t feel the least bit intimidated in expressing conservative views at UMaine.

  Conservatives, unfortunately, are often their own worst enemies as they express their views.  Just calling other people “liberal Democrats” and assuming that a point has been proved, doesn’t help the cause.   Reinforcing the stereotype of the conservative as some sort of brute, doesn’t help much, either.  Accusing the Democrats of being heavy-handed, and then egging a Republican to “never compromise” also hurts the cause in the long run.

  Since you’re a fair-minded, thoughtful poster, I’m sure you’ll agree.

• Anonymous

  No, I was pretty open about things political.  I wouldn’t feel the least bit intimidated in expressing conservative views at UMaine.

  Conservatives, unfortunately, are often their own worst enemies as they express their views.  Just calling other people “liberal Democrats” and assuming that a point has been proved, doesn’t help the cause.   Reinforcing the stereotype of the conservative as some sort of brute, doesn’t help much, either.  Accusing the Democrats of being heavy-handed, and then egging a Republican to “never compromise” also hurts the cause in the long run.

  Since you’re a fair-minded, thoughtful poster, I’m sure you’ll agree.

• Anonymous

  Then how do they get to the poll station to vote without a driver’s license? Most students have a driver’s license I should think. The elderly need some kind of picture idenification when they go to a medical facility so I don’t buy that. The vast majority of poor do not vote because they do not care to vote- (excluding those who have just fallen on hard times, but they most likely have photo id.). 

• Anonymous

  Then how do they get to the poll station to vote without a driver’s license? Most students have a driver’s license I should think. The elderly need some kind of picture idenification when they go to a medical facility so I don’t buy that. The vast majority of poor do not vote because they do not care to vote- (excluding those who have just fallen on hard times, but they most likely have photo id.). 

• Anonymous

  Then how do they get to the poll station to vote without a driver’s license? Most students have a driver’s license I should think. The elderly need some kind of picture idenification when they go to a medical facility so I don’t buy that. The vast majority of poor do not vote because they do not care to vote- (excluding those who have just fallen on hard times, but they most likely have photo id.). 

• Anonymous

  Then how do they get to the poll station to vote without a driver’s license? Most students have a driver’s license I should think. The elderly need some kind of picture idenification when they go to a medical facility so I don’t buy that. The vast majority of poor do not vote because they do not care to vote- (excluding those who have just fallen on hard times, but they most likely have photo id.). 

• Anonymous

  Then how do they get to the poll station to vote without a driver’s license? Most students have a driver’s license I should think. The elderly need some kind of picture idenification when they go to a medical facility so I don’t buy that. The vast majority of poor do not vote because they do not care to vote- (excluding those who have just fallen on hard times, but they most likely have photo id.). 

• Anonymous

  Are there any laws on the books that make it illegal for out of state college students from taking up residency in this state and registering to vote? So far that seems to be all the evidence that has been presented so far. So far I don’t think we have laws declaring out of staters enemies and spies either.

• Anonymous

  The comment was tongue in cheek. These stupid arguements were used a month or so ago when the laws to stop election day voter registration and to make photo IDs mandatory photo for voting were being “debated” here. 

• Anonymous

  Oh my no.   And btw, you sound very very controlling. (good luck with that.)

  One last time…..it was an exchange with a poster on another thread. I have no interest in proving anything to “us”.

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1643335372 Bethany Reynolds

  FYI, Maine *does* have a central voter registration hub, which works quite well to prevent fraud -even Republican Sec. of State Summers said so before his party politicized this issue.

• Anonymous

  A 1979 Supreme Court ruling clearly states that students may vote in either their parent’s home district or the district of their school residence.  Therefore Mr. Webster’s claims are spurious and indicative of a desire to disenfranchise hundreds of people for political gain.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Lachowicz/100000535475609 Edward Lachowicz

  Dave Hansen, District 30. I’ll let you do the rest.

• Anonymous

  We are not French, so why would we care about Napoleonic Law, and we are not English, so why would we care about English Common Law.

• Anonymous

  Yes it was.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Claude-Malone/1282306206 Claude Malone

  LIZDAVIES  you need to hold what you say because is fraud in voter because they the students of all colleges work with democrat to win they election. democrat cry if they don’t get their way.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Claude-Malone/1282306206 Claude Malone

  LIZDAVIES  you need to hold what you say because is fraud in voter because they the students of all colleges work with democrat to win they election. democrat cry if they don’t get their way.

• Anonymous

  I don’t care if you prove anything, I was just quoting yourself.

• Anonymous

  Sorry Larry, I can be a bit slow at times, well most of the time.

• Anonymous

  Sorry Larry, I can be a bit slow at times, well most of the time.

• Anonymous

  Sorry Larry, I can be a bit slow at times, well most of the time.

• Anonymous

  Sorry Larry, I can be a bit slow at times, well most of the time.

• Anonymous

  Sorry Larry, I can be a bit slow at times, well most of the time.

• Anonymous

  Sorry Larry, I can be a bit slow at times, well most of the time.

• Anonymous

  The discussion here was McCarthy so your question is not germaine th the discussion.

  Students that become citizens of the State of Maine are welcome to vote in the State of Maine, but claiming to be a citizen of the State of Maine; with your only driver’s licence being from the State of Maine, any motor vehicles owned by the citizen registered in the State of Maine, and any taxes due to the State of Maine paid to the State of Maine would be fraud. Voting if the requirements are not met is voter fraud, voting in two places is voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  The discussion here was McCarthy so your question is not germaine th the discussion.

  Students that become citizens of the State of Maine are welcome to vote in the State of Maine, but claiming to be a citizen of the State of Maine; with your only driver’s licence being from the State of Maine, any motor vehicles owned by the citizen registered in the State of Maine, and any taxes due to the State of Maine paid to the State of Maine would be fraud. Voting if the requirements are not met is voter fraud, voting in two places is voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  The discussion here was McCarthy so your question is not germaine th the discussion.

  Students that become citizens of the State of Maine are welcome to vote in the State of Maine, but claiming to be a citizen of the State of Maine; with your only driver’s licence being from the State of Maine, any motor vehicles owned by the citizen registered in the State of Maine, and any taxes due to the State of Maine paid to the State of Maine would be fraud. Voting if the requirements are not met is voter fraud, voting in two places is voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  The discussion here was McCarthy so your question is not germaine th the discussion.

  Students that become citizens of the State of Maine are welcome to vote in the State of Maine, but claiming to be a citizen of the State of Maine; with your only driver’s licence being from the State of Maine, any motor vehicles owned by the citizen registered in the State of Maine, and any taxes due to the State of Maine paid to the State of Maine would be fraud. Voting if the requirements are not met is voter fraud, voting in two places is voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  The discussion here was McCarthy so your question is not germaine th the discussion.

  Students that become citizens of the State of Maine are welcome to vote in the State of Maine, but claiming to be a citizen of the State of Maine; with your only driver’s licence being from the State of Maine, any motor vehicles owned by the citizen registered in the State of Maine, and any taxes due to the State of Maine paid to the State of Maine would be fraud. Voting if the requirements are not met is voter fraud, voting in two places is voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  The discussion here was McCarthy so your question is not germaine th the discussion.

  Students that become citizens of the State of Maine are welcome to vote in the State of Maine, but claiming to be a citizen of the State of Maine; with your only driver’s licence being from the State of Maine, any motor vehicles owned by the citizen registered in the State of Maine, and any taxes due to the State of Maine paid to the State of Maine would be fraud. Voting if the requirements are not met is voter fraud, voting in two places is voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  The discussion here was McCarthy so your question is not germaine th the discussion.

  Students that become citizens of the State of Maine are welcome to vote in the State of Maine, but claiming to be a citizen of the State of Maine; with your only driver’s licence being from the State of Maine, any motor vehicles owned by the citizen registered in the State of Maine, and any taxes due to the State of Maine paid to the State of Maine would be fraud. Voting if the requirements are not met is voter fraud, voting in two places is voter fraud.

• Anonymous

  Have you had your paranoids out yet?  If not, maybe you should look into that.

• Anonymous

  Have you had your paranoids out yet?  If not, maybe you should look into that.

• Anonymous

  Have you had your paranoids out yet?  If not, maybe you should look into that.

• Anonymous

  I know that feeling, my 17yo son keeps reminding me that I am dumb as an old sock.

• Anonymous

  I know that feeling, my 17yo son keeps reminding me that I am dumb as an old sock.

• Anonymous

  I know that feeling, my 17yo son keeps reminding me that I am dumb as an old sock.

• Anonymous

  I know that feeling, my 17yo son keeps reminding me that I am dumb as an old sock.

• Anonymous

  Having other people do your work for you is not how it is done. You make a claim, it is up to you to support the claim.

  Just so you understand the discussion, CJS2 made the claim “6 for 6 so far in recalls”. He was referring to the 6 sitting Republican Senators in Wisconsin facing recalls by Democrat opponents. My response was specific  to those primary elections and no other primary elections.

  Hope you have a wonderful early fall evening.

• Anonymous

  Having other people do your work for you is not how it is done. You make a claim, it is up to you to support the claim.

  Just so you understand the discussion, CJS2 made the claim “6 for 6 so far in recalls”. He was referring to the 6 sitting Republican Senators in Wisconsin facing recalls by Democrat opponents. My response was specific  to those primary elections and no other primary elections.

  Hope you have a wonderful early fall evening.

• Anonymous

  Having other people do your work for you is not how it is done. You make a claim, it is up to you to support the claim.

  Just so you understand the discussion, CJS2 made the claim “6 for 6 so far in recalls”. He was referring to the 6 sitting Republican Senators in Wisconsin facing recalls by Democrat opponents. My response was specific  to those primary elections and no other primary elections.

  Hope you have a wonderful early fall evening.

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=621836715 Kevin Schmidt

  Like you’re crying right now? When you stop, please retake fifth grade English.

• Anonymous

  Nice diversion….. we are talking about a STATE issue.  And if you don’t recall, Republicans have not been in power in this state for a long long time.

• Anonymous

  Nice diversion….. we are talking about a STATE issue.  And if you don’t recall, Republicans have not been in power in this state for a long long time.

• Anonymous

  “I only dealt with what was the easiest thing to find,” the GOP chairman said.

  Funny, when you go to the zoo, it’s easy to find the elephants and giraffes, but it doesn’t mean you’re on the effing savannah!

• Anonymous

  My american Government teacher had this bumper sticker in his classroom @ Kennebunk High school: “DON’T STEAL! THE GOVERNMENT HATES COMPETITION”

• Anonymous

  The reason the debt has increased at the fastest rate in history has little to do with revenue (currently near an all time high). The problem is with too much spending. If 42 cents of every dollar being spent by the US Government is borrowed, the debt will reach an unsustainable interest level in a very short time. Spending must be controlled. The Democratic leadership have not even proposed a budget since the current President took office. The US should operate on a budget not on continuing resolutions.

• Anonymous

  it may be a an issue that the state is dealing with, but most Republican legislation is not state generated. This is a National effort we see in many states. I have no doubt that if you looked closely you’ll find that some wingnut think tank like the heritage foundation will have their finger prints all over it.

• Anonymous

  It’s all just another Republican smoke screen to raise fear against the voting day registration right that they just stole from Mainers and do not want returned to us.  These clowns will never say what they really intend. Always look for the agenda they have two or more steps away from the actual words they mouth at you.  ( 9 times out of ten, you will find a lobbyist being massaged in exchange  for more money in the legislator’s coffer.)

• Anonymous

  Webster is right. The Democratic party has engaged in an insidious plot to “flood” the polls with more voters of their party than of the Republicans in a massive state-wide conspiracy to win elections. This MUST be stopped! The Democrats are cheating by trying to get more people to vote for them than the Republicans! This isn’t fair!

• http://www.facebook.com/peter.hoff1 Peter Hoff

  I have to assume Tyro is a master of ironic prose.  It certainly would be unfair if more Democrats voted than Republicans, and the only way to stop that is to cast aspersions on the right of Democrats to vote by accusing them of fraud.  I will be very interested to see how many evildoers the Republicans can identify this time and PROVE they voted illegally.

• Anonymous

  “The way elections are stolen is by flooding the polling stations with unqualified voters. ”

  Simply not true. 
  Not based on history. Not based on research. Not based on legal records.
  Simply not true.

  Proven cases of voter fraud count in the singles of votes in Maine and the hundreds Nationwide – over decades.

  Proven cases of elections fraud count for thousands and thousands of votes.
  Voter rolls “scrubbed” (in States that do not allow same day registration).
  Voters contacted directly and intentionally misinformed of voting times, locations, dates etc.

• Anonymous

  “The way elections are stolen is by flooding the polling stations with unqualified voters. ”

  Simply not true. 
  Not based on history. Not based on research. Not based on legal records.
  Simply not true.

  Proven cases of voter fraud count in the singles of votes in Maine and the hundreds Nationwide – over decades.

  Proven cases of elections fraud count for thousands and thousands of votes.
  Voter rolls “scrubbed” (in States that do not allow same day registration).
  Voters contacted directly and intentionally misinformed of voting times, locations, dates etc.

• Anonymous

  “The way elections are stolen is by flooding the polling stations with unqualified voters. ”

  Simply not true. 
  Not based on history. Not based on research. Not based on legal records.
  Simply not true.

  Proven cases of voter fraud count in the singles of votes in Maine and the hundreds Nationwide – over decades.

  Proven cases of elections fraud count for thousands and thousands of votes.
  Voter rolls “scrubbed” (in States that do not allow same day registration).
  Voters contacted directly and intentionally misinformed of voting times, locations, dates etc.

• Anonymous

  “The way elections are stolen is by flooding the polling stations with unqualified voters. ”

  Simply not true. 
  Not based on history. Not based on research. Not based on legal records.
  Simply not true.

  Proven cases of voter fraud count in the singles of votes in Maine and the hundreds Nationwide – over decades.

  Proven cases of elections fraud count for thousands and thousands of votes.
  Voter rolls “scrubbed” (in States that do not allow same day registration).
  Voters contacted directly and intentionally misinformed of voting times, locations, dates etc.

• Anonymous

  “The way elections are stolen is by flooding the polling stations with unqualified voters. ”

  Simply not true. 
  Not based on history. Not based on research. Not based on legal records.
  Simply not true.

  Proven cases of voter fraud count in the singles of votes in Maine and the hundreds Nationwide – over decades.

  Proven cases of elections fraud count for thousands and thousands of votes.
  Voter rolls “scrubbed” (in States that do not allow same day registration).
  Voters contacted directly and intentionally misinformed of voting times, locations, dates etc.

• Anonymous

  “The way elections are stolen is by flooding the polling stations with unqualified voters. ”

  Simply not true. 
  Not based on history. Not based on research. Not based on legal records.
  Simply not true.

  Proven cases of voter fraud count in the singles of votes in Maine and the hundreds Nationwide – over decades.

  Proven cases of elections fraud count for thousands and thousands of votes.
  Voter rolls “scrubbed” (in States that do not allow same day registration).
  Voters contacted directly and intentionally misinformed of voting times, locations, dates etc.

• Anonymous

  The absurdity of this whole morass
  is that the the new law does nothing to prevent the alleged fraud.

  Mr. Webster has done little to point to any actual fraud.  But he is clearly just playing politics. If he were not, he (and the legislature) would be able to explain how a two day period would prevent the fraud they are reporting.

  Someone who is motivated enough to commit voter fraud is motivated enough to plan it two days ahead.
  Many thousands of Maine citizens are motivated to vote, but are not always motivated, organized, available to register two days ahead.

  The law *might* get in the way of how many “fraudulent” voters?
  The law is sure to get in the way of thousands of legal qualified voter?

  How many thousand of legal qualified voters are we willing to sacrifice (their access to the ballot box),
  in order to make it a-little-bit-harder to commit how many cases of alleged fraud?

  I believe in America.
  I believe in an America that encourages political participation.
  I believe in an America that wants all citizens to vote.
  I believe in an America that wants all of it’s citizens to have unencumbered access to the ballot box.

• Anonymous

  The absurdity of this whole morass
  is that the the new law does nothing to prevent the alleged fraud.

  Mr. Webster has done little to point to any actual fraud.  But he is clearly just playing politics. If he were not, he (and the legislature) would be able to explain how a two day period would prevent the fraud they are reporting.

  Someone who is motivated enough to commit voter fraud is motivated enough to plan it two days ahead.
  Many thousands of Maine citizens are motivated to vote, but are not always motivated, organized, available to register two days ahead.

  The law *might* get in the way of how many “fraudulent” voters?
  The law is sure to get in the way of thousands of legal qualified voter?

  How many thousand of legal qualified voters are we willing to sacrifice (their access to the ballot box),
  in order to make it a-little-bit-harder to commit how many cases of alleged fraud?

  I believe in America.
  I believe in an America that encourages political participation.
  I believe in an America that wants all citizens to vote.
  I believe in an America that wants all of it’s citizens to have unencumbered access to the ballot box.

• Anonymous

  The absurdity of this whole morass
  is that the the new law does nothing to prevent the alleged fraud.

  Mr. Webster has done little to point to any actual fraud.  But he is clearly just playing politics. If he were not, he (and the legislature) would be able to explain how a two day period would prevent the fraud they are reporting.

  Someone who is motivated enough to commit voter fraud is motivated enough to plan it two days ahead.
  Many thousands of Maine citizens are motivated to vote, but are not always motivated, organized, available to register two days ahead.

  The law *might* get in the way of how many “fraudulent” voters?
  The law is sure to get in the way of thousands of legal qualified voter?

  How many thousand of legal qualified voters are we willing to sacrifice (their access to the ballot box),
  in order to make it a-little-bit-harder to commit how many cases of alleged fraud?

  I believe in America.
  I believe in an America that encourages political participation.
  I believe in an America that wants all citizens to vote.
  I believe in an America that wants all of it’s citizens to have unencumbered access to the ballot box.