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Nov 2, 2026
Matt WalshHOST
And here's what they reported.
Matt WalshHOST
Quote, the Department of Justice is investigating CCTV video from Lewiston City Hall that appears to show dozens of instances of NGO workers operating as interpreters coaching illiterate Somalis on how to vote and even filling out ballots for them.
Matt WalshHOST
The shocking footage was obtained by the main wire under the Freedom of Access Act and shows left wing NGOs running an industrial scale ballot stuffing scheme using non-English speaking migrants to obtain ballots and then instructing them on how to vote a party line ticket for Democrats.
Matt WalshHOST
We reviewed all evidence concerning complaints of voter intimidation and election interference, including the video from Lewiston's early voting at City Hall.
Matt WalshHOST
U.S. Attorney for Maine Andrew Benson said When videos and images showing irregular behavior by the alleged Somali translators first went viral last week, Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline quickly moved to block photojournalists from documenting the violations election officials would later disrupt multiple times.
Matt WalshHOST
Sheline's bid to limit journalists' ability to document election shenanigans, however, did not cover the city's own CCTV cameras, which captured 140 hours of electioneering.
Matt WalshHOST
Now, to be clear, Whether or not these NGO workers coached anyone or whether they filled out ballots has not been proven in a court of law.
Matt WalshHOST
The first point involves this photograph.
Scott JenningsHOST
Steve, talk to us about what we're seeing on this video and what's going on with some of these folks who are, I guess, supposedly helping voters cast their ballots in Maine.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
Yeah, so what you're seeing is CCTV footage from inside Lewiston City Hall where early in-person voting began on October 13th.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
So anybody can show up and cast an absentee ballot in the presence of a clerk.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
And our reporters on the ground started seeing some unusual activity with left-wing advocacy groups busing large amounts of Somalis to the polls.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
Of course, Lewiston is famous for having a large Somali diaspora there, and they've been politically active as a Democrat constituency for a long time.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
But it seemed unusual.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
It seemed like it was very well organized, very hierarchical.
Scott JenningsHOST
That's outrageous, number one.
Harrison SmithHOST
He says, "...Muslims make up less than 2% of the population, yet they control the entire state of Minnesota and Columbus, Ohio, and they're on the verge of controlling Michigan.
Harrison SmithHOST
They've utterly destroyed Lewiston, Maine, while Dearborn, Michigan might as well be in the sandbox." France is 10% Muslim on the brink of becoming a failed state.
Harrison SmithHOST
The UK is just 6% Muslim and has uncovered the rape of roughly a quarter million girls raped by Muslim gangs.
Harrison SmithHOST
America needs to wake up.
Scott JenningsHOST
Steve, talk to us about what we're seeing on this video and what's going on with some of these folks who are, I guess, supposedly helping voters cast their ballots in Maine.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
Yeah, so what you're seeing is CCTV footage from inside Lewiston City Hall where early in-person voting began on October 13th.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
So anybody can show up and cast an absentee ballot in the presence of a clerk.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
And our reporters on the ground started seeing some unusual activity with left-wing advocacy groups busing large amounts of Somalis to the polls.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
Of course, Lewiston is famous for having a large Somali diaspora there, and they've been politically active as a Democrat constituency for a long time.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
But it seemed unusual.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
It seemed like it was very well organized, very hierarchical.
Scott JenningsHOST
That's outrageous, number one.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
Yeah, it is a little bit of a confusing story because it blends Medicaid fraud with election fraud because the groups doing the election fraud are, in fact, funded by Medicaid fraud as well as no-bid contracts from the Mills administration.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
But it actually began on October 13th when early in-person voting started in Lewiston.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
which is where the Somali diaspora is concentrated in the state of Maine.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
A lot of people don't know this, but beginning in 2000, Somalis were forcefully resettled in Maine by Catholic charities among other groups.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
They were, in fact, filling out the ballots on behalf of the people they were supposed to be translating for.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
We published photographs showing a violation of Maine's state rules around how translators are supposed to work.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
And in response to that, the corrupt mayor of Lewiston, who is a a big proponent of Somalis and has been elected with their support, banned photography at City Hall.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
Rather than cracking down on the election improprieties, he wanted to crack down on the journalists exposing them.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
determining that it is likely constitutional.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
The Maine legislature passed the law in 2024 in the wake of the October 2023 Lewiston shooting, one of many mass shootings that happen every year in this country, unfortunately.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
Research has shown that waiting periods play a role in helping prevent impulsive acts of gun violence, including homicides and suicides.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
We know from reporting from the Department of Public Safety that Maine's 72-hour waiting period has already worked to save lives from preventable gun deaths in our state, said Nicole Palmer, executive director of the Maine Gun Safety Coalition.
Zak PaineHOST
I mean, you know, CMS has talked about how the Bhutanese are doing this, and obviously it's a big, big deal.
Zak PaineHOST
Let's also now jump over to Lewiston, Maine, because the Department of Justice is now investigating the CCTV video that Steve Robinson had drawn attention to very recently, where it appears that in City Hall, there are dozens of NGO workers who are basically operating ostensibly as interpreters, but instead they are coaching these Somalis on how to vote.
Zak PaineHOST
And sometimes they're even filling out their ballots for them.
Zak PaineHOST
Take a look at this.
Andrew KolvetHOST
A little piece of breaking news here.
Andrew KolvetHOST
The DOJ is now investigating CCTV footage from Lewiston, Maine City Hall.
Andrew KolvetHOST
And what does that footage show? It appears to show Somali NGO translators.
Andrew KolvetHOST
That's right.
Jon HeroldHOST
There's another thing I was going to show you guys.
Jon HeroldHOST
DOJ is investigating CCTV footage from Lewiston, Maine City Hall that appears to show Somali NGO translators coaching migrant voters.
Jon HeroldHOST
Let's take a look.
Jon HeroldHOST
I don't think we need the soundtrack.
Ari SnyderHOST
A new fund to support medical care for Mainers affected by mass violence launched this week.
Ari SnyderHOST
The state legislature invested $5 million to create the Mass Violence Care Fund after the 2023 Lewiston mass shooting.
Ari SnyderHOST
Senator Peggy Rotundo of Lewiston says the fund will help cover expenses for physical and mental health care not covered by insurance.
Peggy RotundoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We knew that those expenses could be incurred now, could be incurred 20 years from now.
Peggy RotundoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so we wanted to make sure that there was this ongoing fund that would be available in case it was needed.
Ari SnyderHOST
Rotundo says people have already received support through Maine's Victims Compensation Fund, but that distributes a maximum of $15,000 per victim, and Rotundo says some people are approaching that cap.
Ari SnyderHOST
Lewiston voters will decide next week whether to place limits on syringe programs designed to help people with substance use disorders.
Ari SnyderHOST
The referendum arose out of concerns about needle waste.
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