After playing a big role in the demise of a national voter-fraud commission that he feared could limit access to the polls, Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap was hailed by some as a hero. But he is not buying it. “I’m no Rosa Parks,” Dunlap told a crowd Wednesday at the Muskie Archives at Bates College. All Dunlap did, he said, was ask for a meeting schedule and some information any member of the commission ought to possess. After a court agreed he should get the data, President Donald Trump pulled the plug on the commission. Dunlap called his seven-month membership on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity a “strange journey” that is not quite over because he is still suing the panel to get his hands on information the White House did not want him to have.
Dunlap, who oversees Maine’s elections, said he does not believe voter fraud exists in any significant way. Neither does he buy the notion that Russian meddling might have swayed the outcome of the 2016 presidential race.
But that does not mean he has an easy job.
By Monday, for example, he has to decide whether a people’s veto petition managed to secure enough valid signatures to require the use of ranked choice voting in the June 12 primary, which would be a first-in-the-nation system for races involving federal office or governor, both on the ballot.
Full Article: Dunlap scoffs at voter fraud, vows to make ranked choice voting work if needed – Lewiston Sun Journal.