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Maine GOP Chair Blames Black Voter Fraud Apocalypse for Election Loss
Maine GOP Chairman Charlie Webster is blaming his party’s defeat on hundreds of black voters who showed up to vote in the rural towns across the state on election day. Oh no, GOP the black voter fraud apocalypse is upon you.
According to the Portland Press Herald,
“In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day,” he (Webster) said. “Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in (these) towns knows anyone who’s black. How did that happen? I don’t know. We’re going to find out.”…”I’m not talking about 15 or 20. I’m talking hundreds,” he said Wednesday. “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.”
What Webster is suggesting is that African-American voters marched into rural Maine towns that they didn’t live in, in order to vote for Democrats and Obama. If the people running the elections in these small towns knew that individuals who didn’t live there were voting, why didn’t they do anything to stop them? Why didn’t they call the police, or alert authorities? Anyone who has lived in small town knows that the residents wouldn’t just ignore hundreds of strangers showing up to vote on election day who don’t live there.
But these weren’t just any strangers, they were black. They were roving bands of African Americans who went from town to town voting for Obama and Democrats.
It couldn’t be the Republican Party’s bad candidate selections, or policies that cost them the election. Nope, it was an African American voter fraud caravan that apparently vanished before and after the election that did them in. Webster went on to claim that the only thing that will stop the black voter fraud menace is voter ID laws.
Republicans and Democrats in the state have joined together to call on Webster to resign.
It took nine days after the election for a Republican to blame their defeat on an African American voter fraud apocalypse.
All things considered, the Republicans are handling this crushing defeat about as well as most people thought they would.
It’s not us. Blame the African American voter fraud apocalypse for your defeat.
Racist and delusional is par for the course in today’s Republican Party.
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17 Responses to Maine GOP Chair Blames Black Voter Fraud Apocalypse for Election Loss
buckeyewill
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Where is his evidence?????
Sounds like the clowns in the 50′s and 60′s saying that there are UN troops from Africa in the US with nose rings and spears .
More things change,the more they remain the same.
Diane
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Show us the evidence.
And then let us hear from all the poll workers that allowed these unregistered people to vote.
Paws
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 2:58 pm
They just keep beating that (non-existent) voter fraud drum, don’t they? All they are doing is trying to de-legitimize the President’s re-election. They make me sick. They just can’t believe all their voter suppression tactics didn’t work.
Paws
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 2:56 pm
So…he doesn’t know any black people and his friends don’t know any black people, therefore…there are no black people?
Is he insane? Rhetorical question people.
labman57
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Republican election officials in numerous states had implemented safeguards to ensure that ethnic minorities would be discouraged or prevented from exercising their constitutional right to vote.
Despite their concerted efforts, these demographic groups represented a significant proportion of the turnout, contributing to Obama’s victory. Ergo, election fraud must have occurred.
Reynardine
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 3:20 pm
In fact, a number of their pundits have said that poor people, black people, brown people, and female people shouldn’t be allowed to vote, because they’ll vote their own interests. Oh, the horror!
ericarose
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
AhHAHAHA…. “…roving bands of African Americans who went from town to town voting for Obama…”
That is hysterical!!!!!
Morgan M of Maine
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Sheesh, Charlie. You are making your fellow Mainers look like idiots. Roving bands of strangers voting is a delusion, black or otherwise. Stop watching FOX news already.
Acore
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 7:20 pm
I decided to look at Webster’s claims – using ARITHMETIC….and figured out that…
There could potentially be (on average) 860 African-Americans of voting age in each of the 16 counties of Maine. So why would it seem impossible to see dozens of African-American citizens voting in any given county?
Here’s the Math:
The est. population of Maine as of 4/11 = 1,328,361 people. The percent of African-Americans in Maine is 1.3%, so of the total population of 1,328,361 people, 17,269 are African-American (1.3% of 1,328,361 = 17,269)
79.7% of the people in Maine are 18 and older – and therefore of voting age – so – even though we don’t know for sure – we can estimate that 79.7% of 17,269 (all African-Americans in Maine) = 13,763 voters who could have been African American.
There are 16 counties in Maine, Grant it – the African-American population is not evenly distributed in each county, but – for argument’s sake – let’s say it is – so 13,763 African-American voters divided among 16 counties = the potential for an average of 860 African-Americans per county.
So what would be so strange as to see dozens of African-Americans voting at a given polling place?
Repack Rider
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Because of course, hundreds of people can TOTALLY keep a secret.
djchefron
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 8:09 pm
I know math is not the rethugs strong suit but damn. If the President won by over 100 thousand votes and thereis only about 15,500 blahs in the whole state how ,ah to hell with it.It just hurts to try to think this with logic.
Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 8:19 pm
I think you mean almost 3 million votes
djchefron
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
I am not going to be snarky but IN THE STATE OF MAINE THE PRESIDENT WON BY 100 THOUSAND VOTES.Not the country.
majii
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 9:10 pm
I don’t find Webster’s shock to be so surprising. When my family moved into an all white neighborhood here in GA in the early 1980s, it took more than a year before most of them realized that we were there.
Erdman West
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 10:30 pm
All REGRESSIVES MUST GO. Eliminate them from public view. Their views are criminal and anti-American!!! The American people will not stand for another four years of their blind hatred. FORWARD AMERICA!!!
1- Boycott their businesses! samuel-warde.com/2012/07/...
2- Boycott the sponsors of their radio and TV shows and let them know! foxnewsboycott.com/fox-ne...
3- When they threaten us charge them with harassment and sue them! [This has recently happened to me]
4- When they threaten secession and armed rebellion charge them with sedition!
5- Constantly confront their abuse of Christianity!
Please help add to this list with real actions like the above which can be done.
THANKS!
Anne
Nov. 16th, 2012 at 12:59 am
This idiot reminds me of the cretins during the Civil Rights movement that blamed “agitators” from the North for stirring up discontent among blacks in the South, as if anyone needed to. Because they simply cannot accept the fact that they tried in vain to push a flawed candidate and a flawed ideology on Americans, they are grasping at all kinds of straws. The only voter fraud that occurred was in their attempts to suppress voting by Democrats in state after state, but they are also just as good at projection as they are at denial. It’s eating at them that their efforts backfired by galvanizing more and more of the targeted voters to actually get out and vote. They simply don’t like the unexpected results of their handiwork.
Goss
Nov. 16th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
but to claim that he was in any way racist is “sleazy”.
Well, mark me down as sleazy.