Via The Bangor Daily News

Charlie Webster, the outgoing chairman of the Maine G.O.P., wants to investigate alleged voter fraud by unknown black people in unnamed rural towns.

“In some parts of the state, there were dozens of black people who came in to vote,” he said on Tuesday. “Nobody in town knew them.”

On Wednesday he added: “It’s not about being black of Spanish or Chinese. Every election I hear that hundreds of unfamiliar people come in to vote. It’s unfortunate that people will use the issue of being black. If you lived in a small town, you would know that if [an unfamiliar] black person or Chinese person comes to vote, it would seem odd.”

Mr. Webster plans to send “several thousand” postcards to the addresses of voters who registered on Election Day. “The concept behind this is to see if they are returned. This is a reasonably inexpensive effort by me to settle the question” of whether anyone traveled to Maine to cast a fraudulent vote.