Mainers should see right through 'No on 1' TV ad

[MaineDem]

This year, the political action committee Secure Maine’s Ballot has a strong contender for the most duplicitous ad of the election cycle.

The group opposes Question 1, which seeks to protect Maine’s 38-year-old law allowing a citizen to register to vote on Election Day.

The Maine Legislature repealed that law amid unspecified allegations of voter fraud, but the repeal was put on hold by the referendum.

The group’s 15-second ad asks, “Who should decide Maine’s elections, Mainers or outsiders from other states?”

This, we think, may be a reference to Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster’s discredited attempt to prove that a couple hundred Maine college students from out of state voted illegally in past elections.

Republican Secretary of State Charlie Summers later investigated Webster’s complaint and found the students were eligible to vote here.

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/our-view/2011/11/04/mainers-should-see-right-through-no-1-tv-ad/1111058

The tv ad was totally an attempt to distract and be deceptive for sure.