Charlie Summers, Secretary of State of Maine, has made a big deal of
supposed widespread fraud in voting by Maine college students. At the instigation of the state's Republican party, he conducted an investigation into whether masses of college students were voting twice, both at college and at their home addresses, and whether non-citizens were voting.
Summers just released the findings of that investigation, and just as every investigation of voter fraud has demonstrated, there wasn't any.
His evidence showed that none of the students committed fraud and only one noncitizen voted in Maine.
Of the 206 out-of-state students investigated, 77 were registered both in Maine and in their home state and five were determined to have voted in Maine and their home state in the same years. None, however, voted in the same election twice.
As for noncitizens successfully registering to vote, Summers identified one case from 2002 in which an El Salvadoran voted in Portland even though he was not a U.S. citizen. That person since has been deported, Summers said.
But, he says, even though his investigation uncovered just one incident in a decade, his investigation showed that rampant voter fraud was absolutely possible, "that Maine's election system is 'fragile and vulnerable,' and he vowed to submit legislation next session to fix longstanding problems." Because a Republican secretary of state can't let a thing like facts get in the way of preventing people from voting Democratic.