WATCH: DOJ Sending Federal Monitors to Maine as Videos Show Somali Translators Allegedly Directing Votes and NGOs Busing Voters to City Hall

The Maine Wire has published video and witness accounts from Lewiston City Hall during early voting showing groups of Somalis being dropped off by NGOs, met by translators at the door, escorted into the voting area, and assisted in ways that observers say have crossed into illegal electioneering.

In one video, translators approached Somali voters who had not requested help, even after poll workers told them not to.

Somali translators are at the polling stations in Maine and they are allegedly directing people on how to vote

They are even approaching Somali who don’t ask for a translator. The poll workers are asking them not to help those who don’t request help, but they don’t listen. They approach the voters anyway

First off, of course we have to assume that this is voter fraud and they are directing people on how to vote. I’m sure in some way they are linked to Democrat funded NGOs

But one of the other things is WHY does anyone voting in America need a translator??? What are we even doing in this country

There are also documented videos of NGOs bringing groups of Somali voters to Lewiston City Hall for early voting

It’s going to be rigged

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) October 23, 2026

The Department of Justice has announced it is sending election monitors to polling places in Portland and Lewiston for the midterm elections, the Maine Secretary of State’s office confirmed after the videos dropped.

🚨 UPDATE: Trump DOJ and Harmeet Dhillon are going to send federal ELECTION MONITORS to the polls in Portland and Lewiston, MAINE, for the midterms — home to a CRUCIAL US Senate election that could decide the chamber

Good. NO CHEATING.

They twice REFUSED to hand DOJ Maine’s full voter rolls, and Democrats are already promising to “monitor the monitors”

It’s the first time federal observers have been sent to Maine since Democrat Shenna Bellows became Secretary of State in 2021

DOJ plans to send 1,000 monitors nationwide this year, up from 289 in 2022

If everything is clean, Democrats have nothing to worry about! Why stress? 🤔

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 23, 2026

Maine Wire reporter Jon Fetherston said he spent multiple days documenting the activity and personally observed it more than 100 times.

I have spent the last three days in Lewsiton documenting this. It has happened over a 100 times. I personally have over heard interpreters telling them to “vote Democrat.” Seen them handling the ballots, even saw one interpreter fold the ballot and place into the envelope. All against the rules.

— Maine Wire Jon (@MaineWireJon) October 21, 2026

“I have spent the last three days in Lewsiton documenting this. It has happened over a 100 times. I personally have over heard interpreters telling them to ‘vote Democrat,’” Fetherson wrote. “Seen them handling the ballots, even saw one interpreter fold the ballot and place into the envelope. All against the rules.”

LEWISTON: NGOs drop elderly Somalis off at town hall

-Translator meets them at the door

-NGOs + translator escort them to the chamber

-Translator physically “helps” them vote

-NGO coordinator threatens press who document the process https://t.co/vLEGxiEk4G

— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) October 21, 2026

City Councilor Bret Martel, a Republican candidate, separately described watching translators assist voters in complete silence and noted cases of multiple people in booths.

Maine law requires that a voter request an aide or translator.

Here’s the full story on the Somali translator who was asked to leave the voting area for electioneering, as confirmed by the Lewiston clerk: https://t.co/s4mLWue4cV

— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) October 22, 2026

The aide must read the entire ballot out loud, cannot influence the choice, and cannot approach or interrupt a voter who has not asked for help.

The voter must mark the ballot and place it in the envelope unless physically unable to do so.

The Lewiston city clerk later confirmed that a warden asked one translator to leave the immediate voting area after the person approached a newly arrived voter who had not requested assistance.

After the incidents, the clerk began handing out printed rules for aides.

Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline responded by issuing notices limiting photography and video recording within 15 feet of a voter anywhere on City Hall’s first floor, except for voter selfies.

🚨🚨WOW: Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline reacts to the documented cases of electioneering by Somali translators by issuing notices limiting photography and video recording…

Outrageous. https://t.co/TMRG3queIs

— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) October 22, 2026

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Sheline directed people to report voter harassment to the clerk.

The Maine Wire described the move as a reaction to its documentation of the translators rather than an address of the underlying conduct.

The Maine Secretary of State’s office has said it is monitoring complaints of intrusive filming, photography, and harassment at the site.

The Maine Wire has filed a Freedom of Access Act request for security footage of the early voting process.