Maine GOP Chair: We Must Make It Harder To Vote Because ‘Democrats Intentionally Steal Elections"

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Maine GOP Chair: We Must Make It Harder To Vote Because ‘Democrats Intentionally Steal Elections’
By Ian Millhiser on Jun 13, 2011 at 9:20 am

For nearly four decades, Maine has been one of eight states which provides same-day voter registration to voters at the polls. This policy of enfranchising the greatest number of Maine voters is likely to end, however, now that the GOP-controlled state legislature has passed a bill ending same-day registration and Tea Party Gov. Paul LePage is expected to sign it. Worse, state GOP Chairman Charlie Webster explained it was necessary to disenfranchise the thousands of Maine voters who take advantage of same-day registration every election year in order to save Maine from one of his paranoid fantasies:

“If you want to get really honest, this is about how the Democrats have managed to steal elections from Maine people,” Webster told a columnist for the Portland Press Herald in a piece published Friday. “Many of us believe that the Democrats intentionally steal elections.”

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http://bangordailynews.com/2011/06/10/politics/state-house/gop-chairman%E2%80%99s-charge-that-democrats-%E2%80%98steal%E2%80%99-election-causes-stir/?ref=latest
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/06/13/243178/maine-gop-war-on-voting/

[eShirl]

1. Yep, Democrats flipped the state legislature and the governorship to Republican.

:sarcasm:

[MineralMan]

2. Morons abound. n/t

[Mopar151]

3. Same thing in NH

Trying to disenfranchise anybody who isn't like them.

[hobbit709]

4. Projection is the Republican way.

[shanti]

10. my thoughts exactly!

a hit dog yelps.

[City Lights]

12. Indeed. nt

[proud patriot]

5. Can you imagine the Media response had a liberal said this?

"it's okay when a republican does it"

[Brigid]

6. Does the botched election of 2000 ring a bell, Mr. Webster?

Yeah, we Democrats were responsible for that, plus the miserable eight years that followed. Right. :sarcasm:

[Patiod]

7. Well, it's true. Dems do "steal" elections

by voting.

Elections that Republicans "should" win, if only the hoi-polloi wouldn't vote.

[bluedigger]

8. Charlie was always the first to cry "foul"!

I used to play pick-up basketball with Webster. He fouled and whined a lot...:nopity:

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. Darn. He's found us out. I guess "getting people to vote" was a pretty obvious ploy.

Maybe we'll buy some voting machine companies instead.

[MikeMc]

11. Repugs only steal elections 'accidentally'.

[librechik]

13. yeah, we steal elections with big popular turnout. they steal elections

by cooking the books. Slight difference.

[Angry Dragon]

14. As long as he said it he should have to prove it........

I would bring a lawsuit as long as he is claiming fraud.....

[jpak]

15. Webster also claimed Dems bring illegal voters in by the busload - which is a pantlaod

Most Mainers vote in small towns where just about everyone knows each other - NO ONE buses in voters to steal elections

GOP voter suppression = job #1

yup

[bobthedrummer]

16. Wisconsin is the real battleground when it come to taking away OUR RIGHTS and calling it democracy

n/t