Timothy Birdnow

The Governor of Maine told college students that they should follow state laws regarding residency if they are going to vote in the state. This led to a furious reaction from the ACLU, which is calling for an investigation of Gov. LePage for "voter suppression".

Here is what the Governor said in a press release:


"Democrats for decades have encouraged college students from out of state to vote in Maine, even though there is no way to determine whether these college students also voted in their home states,” the governor said in a statement. "Casting ballots in two different states is voter fraud, which is why Maine law requires anyone voting here to establish residency here.

"We welcome college students establishing residency in our great state, as long as they follow all laws that regulate voting, motor vehicles and taxes. We cannot tolerate voter fraud in our state.”

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And here is the ACLU response:

"The governor’s statement seems designed to make college students afraid to vote,” said Zachary Heiden, the legal director of Maine’s ACLU, which also vociferously opposes voter ID laws. "Voter intimidation and harassment is illegal, and we call on the Department of Justice to investigate the intent of the governor’s comments.”

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This is Obama's/Hillary's America, a land where asking people to obey the law is considered discriminatory or unfair. I must ask; why have a law at all, if it can be circumvented when it is inconvenient? What made America different from the rest of the world (even Europe in the old days) was a strict adherence to the concept of the Rule of Law, which said that the Law trumped the civil authorities. Kings and Emperors make laws, and change them to suit themselves. America was different in that it strictly applied the English concepts put forth in the Magna Carta about the absolute supremacy of law over men. With this as a foundational principle America was able to move on to greatness, because every person knew the rules would not change in the middle of the game. You could count on, say, a rival businessman going to jail if he got insider information, for instance. He couldn't unfairly profit at your expense, no matter how well connected. Similarly, it was understood that there were rules to voting, and that someone couldn't vote more than once. But after over half a century of Progressive tinkering we now have a system where those who stand up for voter integrity are the bad guys and are investigated, while the people who steal the votes and undermine the principle of voting integrity are celebrated as heroes. Remember; this is not a victimless crime. Every stolen vote is stolen from YOU, not some nebulous person. Your vote counts less when someone votes more than once. And real money and power are at stake. Obamacare, for instance, would probably have been overturned and all the money stolen from the American People that has resulted from it's survival depended on Barack Obama winning re-election. He did - and likely through vote fraud in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. So money was stolen FROM YOU as a result of this.

This mocks the Rule of Law. Without the Rule of Law we have the tyranny of men, which is what America is fast becoming.

Progressivism has always been a criminal enterprise. Vote theft is just more proof that it is a cancer.

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