I don’t care where you pulled it out of. I was asking what specific claims you knew about. Saying you read it at “obamavoterfraud” is useless — that site is full of anectodal unsubstantiated and debunked claims. There might be something real there, but you’d never know the difference.
My point is that we should be smart people. We shouldn’t parrot whatever story we read on the internet. We should research the claims. There’s a reason that candidates aren’t filing complaints against voter fraud, and it isn’t because candidates are lazy unmotivated people. The idea that a candidate would give up is ludicrous.
The Maine State GOP chair cited a claim, and then had to apologize because he had no first-hand knowledge of anything, he just had a complaint that colored people showed up to vote.
You think that a sparsely populuted rural district that was entirely white couldn’t actually notice if unregistered black people came to vote? Does that actually make sense to you? What would you do if you were working at a polling place, and a bunch of unregistered voters showed up that clearly didn’t belong? Would you blindly let them vote, or would you do your job?
And afterward, would you be silent, or would you file reports, and make your voice heard?
So, suppose there is a small number of blacks who moved into an area. And the democrats, knowing Maine is not winner-take-all, have been smart, and found the enclave of blacks. You don’t think they could get them to get together and register and vote for Obama?
In fact, if I were a smart democrat, I’d not only do that, but I’d tried to arrange to take them all to their rural precinct, and make sure to film it, in the hopes I could get some republican official to make a racist comment about how “strange people” were voting in an all-white place.
If those people were legal voters, you couldn’t ask for something more hurtful to the conservative cause than a state GOP chair insinuating that minorities didn’t “belong”.
I don’t know if this is what happened, but knowing the democratic operatives in my area, I would put the odds much higher than the possibility that the democrats decided to try to sneak illegal voters into a precinct, and did it by walking them in en-masse.
I would actually be more sympathetic to the conspiracy theory if it had some modicum of plausibility, rather than reading like a bad after-school special.