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“Through your direction, DHHS Commissioner Gagne-Holmes can easily produce a report that reveals how many ineligible voters are registered to vote, how often they have voted, and in what election years and jurisdictions,” Faulkingham said. “Once again, this process can inform state policymakers and election officials of possible electoral fraud without violating privacy laws.”
“As lawmakers, we realize that this request will not fix the potential fraud in our system as that is the responsibility of the Secretary of State,” he said. “However, this information can provide the Maine people the insight into how comprehensive a problem we may have on our hands.”
Mills, who is currently serving her second term as governor, offered a response to Faulkingham in the form of a statement to News Center Maine (WCSH), a left-leaning local TV station based in Portland.
“The Attorney General and the Secretary of State have requested information and records from the Maine Wire to investigate their allegations,” Mills said.
“The Maine Wire has thus far declined. As Secretary Bellows has said, if the Maine Wire wants to help ensure the integrity of Maine’s elections, they would need to respond differently to that request,” said Mills.
Despite the requests from Mills, Frey, and Bellows, the Maine Wire continues to decline to provide information to the State that would allow investigators to identify a whistleblower and potentially prosecute non-citizens who may in fact be victims of identity theft.
Contrary to Mills’ assertion, the Maine Wire’s cooperation is not necessary to investigate the scope of illegal alien and legal alien voting in Maine’s elections because all of the records underlying the reporting are already in the government’s possession.
Although the Maine Wire’s reporting has, thus far, only identified six non-citizens who are illegally registered to vote, and five who have had ballots cast illegally under their names, the full scope of illegal non-citizen voting in Maine’s elections could be massive — large enough, even, to provide the margin of victory in some races.
The non-random sample size obtained by the Maine Wire included 18 non-citizens, including both legal aliens and illegal aliens, all of whom are legally prohibited from voting as they are not natural born U.S. citizens or naturalized U.S. citizens. Of that sample, six were illegally registered to vote, according to the Secretary of State’s records, meaning 33 percent of the sample.
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According to the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition (MIRC), a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers navigate life in Maine, the total population of noncitizens residing in the Pine Tree State is more than 87,000.
If 65,000 to 75,000 of those individuals are above the voting age of 18, and if the percentage of illegally registered non-citizens from the Maine Wire’s limited sample size is accurate at such a scale, then Maine could potentially have anywhere from 20,000 to 25,000 ineligible non-citizen voters registered to vote in its elections.
The extent to which non-citizen ballots are illegally entering Maine’s elections — whether it’s 600, 6,000, 16,000 or more — is a question that could have vast implications for Maine’s most recent elections, as well as the state’s future elections.
At the state level, illegal ballots cast by non-citizens or in the names of non-citizens could easily provide the margin of victory for State House of Representatives and State Senate elections. Those illegally cast votes could even be large enough to sway state legislative races so as to alter the balance of partisan power at the State House in Augusta.
In 2022, for example, Sen. Tim Nangle (D-Cumberland) won his race against Republican Gary Plummer by 346 votes. Similarly, the 2022 race for State House District 143 between Rep. Ann Marie Fredericks (R-Sanford) and Democrat Wesley Davie was decided by just 178 votes. In another nearby race, Rep. Anne-Marie Mastraccio (D-Sanford) beat Republican Pamela Buck by just 199 votes.
At the federal level, the scope of non-citizen voting in Maine could even have ramifications for the composition of the U.S. Congress.