GOP chief: Mystery black voters
The head of Maine’s Republican Party is claiming unknown groups of black people showed up in the state’s towns and cast ballots on election day.
“In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day,” Charlie Webster told Portland, Me.’s NBC affiliate on Wednesday. “Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in town knows anyone who’s black. How did that happen? I don’t know. We’re going to find out.”
Continue ReadingWebster was unable to provide specifics, but said there were five areas of the state where he said he had concerns. He said he was going to mail thank-you cards for voting to newly registered voters. If some weren’t able to be delivered, he would know there was fraud.
Both the Maine Secretary of State’s office and the head of the state’s association of town clerks told the Portland Press-Herald they were unaware of any problems.
“I’m not talking about 15 or 20. I’m talking hundreds,” Webster told the paper. “I’m not politically correct and maybe I shouldn’t have said these voters were black, but anyone who suggests I have a bias toward any race or group, frankly, that’s sleazy.”
Maine is one of the whitest states in the country, with a black population of only 1.2 percent.
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black people by the hundreds running through the woods of Maine voting willy-nilly! Oh the humanity! Or, should I say, oh the insanity!
I would propose that somewhere in Maine there is a village missing its idiot but the GOP in general has a proclivity towards allowing jackasses such as this in positions of power lately. Wonder what the average college student in Maine thinks of the state party when they hear this fantasy-land stuff. Wonder why the GOP has a hard time with everyone but old white guys. Gee, what a mystery.
First the GOP convention has Clint talking to an invisible President Obama and now they are seeing invisible black voters?
Really?
Really?
Seems like he lives on Fantasy Island
Comments like this is why blacks who are in fact very conservative (they just don't know it) run far far away from the Republican party.
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