By Selwyn Duke

There are endless “anecdotes” from the last election “that
prove nothing about vote fraud,” as the critics put it. And one that would be
comical, were this not a tragic topic, involves reports of dozens of black
voters showing up to cast ballots in small Maine towns. The Portland Press Herald writes:

Maine Republican Party Chairman
Charlie Webster is once again alleging possible voting irregularities, this
time claiming that groups of unknown black people showed up in some rural towns
to vote on Election Day.

[…]"In some parts of rural
Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on
Election Day," he said. "Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in
(these) towns knows anyone who's black. How did that happen? I don't know.
We're going to find out."

Of course, questioning such things makes you a “racist.” And
one liberal commentator (no, I’m not giving him exposure by providing the link)
who made this implication mocked Webster and actually suggested that these
mysterious black voters’ appearance might just have been a result of Democrat
get-out-the-vote efforts. A tenable theory, I suppose. After all, liberals proved
beyond a doubt this last election that, in the electoral universe, there is
such thing as spontaneous generation. But know that those rural black Maine
voters certainly do not exist. I can say this through personal experience.

Maine had always intrigued me, and some years ago I
satisfied my curiosity by spending a month traveling throughout the state.
After quickly driving up the coast through the fishing towns and tourist areas,
I turned north to spend time where my heart always lies: the hinterlands. I
camped in the North Maine Woods, and crisscrossed the central and northern
parts of the state, visiting many locales, including one-horse towns that dot
only detailed maps. And I can tell you something.

For all intents and purposes, there are no black folks in these regions.

To be precise, during the course of all my travels in
central and northern Maine, I saw one black person. Literally. He was a singer
at a church I attended one Sunday in one of the somewhat bigger towns, whose
name escapes me.

In other words, the idea that there were dozens of black
voters hiding in the woods near Podunk Maine towns just waiting for the
motivation to vote is preposterous. These are extremely insular places in which
everyone knows everyone, and outsiders stick out like a sore thumb.

To add more perspective, the 2010 census records only 15,707
black people in Maine. Approximately 30 percent of them live in the state’s
largest city, Portland. A small colony of Somali refugees exists in Lewiston. Virtually
all the rest would be scattered on or near other parts of the coast. Go a
little ways inland, and Maine is a very homogeneous place.

But this being the case, to echo the aforementioned liberal
commentator, wouldn’t Democrats use white fraudsters to steal votes in Maine’s
northern climes? Not necessarily. First, are Democrats truly more smart than
they are brazen? And even if they are, do they really have to worry about being
brazen? After all, history has taught them that there’s little chance they’ll
be held accountable for vote fraud. Their enablers in the media have seen to
that.

In fact, using black fraudsters may be a stroke of genius.
After all, as I said earlier, any questioning of their votes can now be
dismissed with “That’s racist!” 

       
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