There is absolutely no documentation required to register to vote. You can register by filling out an affidavit. Basically, scout’s honor. You can give any name you wish, list the homeless shelter or other similar buildings, depending on which ward you want to register in, and then give what you say are the last four digits of your social security number. Translators are available in dozens of languages to assist with this process.
You then walk right over and cast your vote after that, which will be counted later in the evening in most cases, with results announced the next day.
That’s absolutely not enough time to validate any of that information, especially US Citizenship status. US Citizenship is required by Maine law to vote in any Maine election.
You can also present a utility bill as a form of “ID”, again with no citizenship verification. If you want to register by showing them your ID, you can do that, too, but if not, you can just fill out the affidavit.
Once you are a registered voter, you simply walk up to the table, rattle off your name and address, and they check you off the box. Again, no ID is needed. There’s nothing stopping me from, say, voting in my kid’s name unless I’m recognized and challenged by a poll watcher or election official.
If you request an absentee, you will get one automatically every year, even after you’re dead or have moved until someone realizes that and strikes your name from the voter rolls, which may not happen for a while.
It’s the shadiest possible way to conduct elections, especially considering the influx of migrants over the last few years.
I have literally been the only person in line at my polling place that didn’t have a translator last year during the school budget vote, and it was a one-question, yes or no approval of the budget. And we’re supposed to believe that all of those people with translators, and there are often influxes of them at the 11th hour, are all US Citizens who passed the exam in English or became naturalized.
If you say something like “Hey, that seems a little fishy” in public, you will be publicly smeared as a racist. That’s how it works here in The Pine Tree State.
Lewiston’s Mayor just posted today in opposition to voter ID, along with every other moving part of the Maine Democratic political apparatus, including dozens of nonprofits. It is a barely hidden scam.
On top of all that, Bates College actively encourages voting in local elections, and so do most other universities in Maine. They don’t check to see if they’re registered in their home state. Again, scout’s honor system. We actually had a Bates College student on our school committee a few years ago. We presently have an actual Bates College Gender Studies Professor on our school board right now.
In fact, most of Lewiston’s delegation to Augusta is either employed by Bates or Bates alumni.
Our system would literally be the envy of Hitler himself. Instead of having Nazi Party-only elections, he could have let “opposition” run, then just produced enough votes for the Nazis to win anyway.
