Maine’s Attorney General and Secretary of State sent a letter to the Mane Wire on Friday asking the investigative news outlet to handover records showing non-citizens are registered to vote and have had votes cast in their names since at least 2016.

In the letter, Attorney General Aaron Frey and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows asked Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson to provide the state with identifying information related to individuals who appear to be illegally registered to vote, “complete copies” of source documents, and “any other documentation you may have collected that is relevant” to the investigative report published on Thursday, Oct. 12.

Based on Medicaid/MaineCare billing records obtained by the Maine Wire, as well as publicly available information from the Secretary of State’s office about registered voters and voter histories, the Maine Wire was able to determine that at least six non-citizens within a subset of 18 individuals analyzed are registered to vote in Maine, and at least five of the cohort have had votes cast in their names since 2016.

The Maine Wire was not able to determine whether the individuals in question registered themselves to vote and cast votes themselves, or were registered to vote by a third party and had votes cast by someone else on their behalf.

All of the records upon which the Maine Wire based its reporting are already in possession of the state of Maine.

Specifically, the voter registrations and voting histories are maintained by the Secretary of State’s office, while the MaineCare records showing the citizenship status and unique identifying information of all non-citizen Maine residents are maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services.

In a letter of reply, Consovoy McCarthy Attorney Patrick Strawbridge, who represents the Maine Wire and Robinson, sent the following letter of reply: