Just one day after the Maine Wire dropped a bombshell report on whistleblower records indicating multiple noncitizens have illegally voted in elections in Maine, a progressive nonprofit took to a left-wing media outlet to brag about handing out voter guides to noncitizen immigrants in the run-up to the 2024 election.
The League of Women Voters of Maine (LWVME) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit lobbying organization that is the Maine chapter of the National League of Women Voters of the U.S.
Although describing itself as a “nonpartisan” organization, LWV advocates for a wide array of liberal policy positions, including on gun control, abortion and climate change.
The national LWV also advocates for all illegal immigrants currently in the U.S. to be granted legal status, as well as for noncitizens to be allowed to enroll in Medicaid and against restrictions on asylum claims by illegal immigrants.
Both Maine Gov. Janet Mills and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows last year attended an event hosted by the nonprofit during which it was announced that the organization plans to “study” allowing noncitizens to vote in local and state elections.
On Friday, the Maine Morning Star, a progressive online news outlet that is a project of the left-wing dark money network funded by Arabella Advisors, published an article touting the LWVME’s canvassing of low-income and immigrant communities.
In the article, Evan Murray, League of Women Voters’ civic engagement director, states that their canvassers hand out voter guides to noncitizens, even though it is illegal for them to vote.
The article describes one such instance where a canvasser gave a noncitizen a voting guide in Portuguese, despite no one in the person’s household being legally allowed to vote. Maine also does not print ballots in Portuguese.
Per the Maine Morning Star:
At the neighbor-to-neighbor canvassing, Murray makes it clear to volunteers that noncitizens can’t vote, but they should still engage with residents if they’re not citizens to make them feel included, and offer the informational booklets that the league publishes in English, French and Portuguese, if they are interested.
“When we talk to people who aren’t citizens, we don’t assume they’re not connected,” Murray told volunteers Deborah Roose and David Snyder, who traveled from Jefferson, where they live part of the year.
“We often ask if they still like the books that we have about how voting works for when they are a citizen.”
Roose and Synder later knocked on the door of Isabel Gomes, who lives in one of the Hyacinth Place apartment buildings with her husband and children. After Roose introduced herself and asked if anyone was a citizen, Gomes said no, but accepted the information booklet in Portuguese that Roose offered.
“Let’s hope you can become citizens and then vote,” she told Gomes.
“Yes, it’s very important,” Gomes responded.
The voter guide in question includes information on how to register to vote, as well as what documents and forms of identification work in order to prove identity and residence in Maine.
It is important to note that while voting as a noncitizen is a crime, it is relatively simple for a noncitizen to register to vote in Maine, as proof of citizenship — apart from checking a box as an attestation — is not required as part of the registration process.
The Maine Morning Star’s report came just a day after the Maine Wire revealed, based on whistleblower records, that multiple votes have been cast in Maine under the names of legal and illegal aliens who should be ineligible to vote in U.S. federal, state, and local Maine elections.
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