Maine is open to voter fraud through mail-in balloting and citizens can help, according to an election watchdog.
Citizens Against Voter Fraud (CAVF) encourages Maine residents who receive ballots in the mail for voters no longer living at their address to take a photograph of the ballot and submit it to the organization at fraud@endvotefraud.com.
Once CAVF receives an upload of a ballot they will run that information against a records database to parse out illegitimate voter from legitimate registered voters.
According to CAVF, Maine has 9,655 more registers voters than they have citizens.
For context, President Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by 21,142 votes in Maine in 2016.
In the rush to get mail-in ballots to voters as the election approaches CAVF is warning citizens that voter rolls like Maine’s, that have not been cleaned up in some time, will likely result ballots being sent to incorrect addresses and to deceased voters opening up the process for fraud.
CAVF argues the mail-in process opens the vote up to fraud and could influence the outcome of the election.
“We know legitimate voters are receiving these illegitimate ballots in the mail,” Ian Prior, a spokesman for CAVF, said. “That’s dangerous to democracy.”
In fact, the Heritage Foundation has documented cases of voter fraud in Maine going back several years.
CAVF was launched in as an educational effort to inform citizens about voter fraud and empower them to bring to spot it and prevent it from affecting the 2020 presidential election.
Alerts Sign-up