He then held up another page with a picture of a black man on it and said, "That's the other culprit." Reporting on the incident, Portland Press Herald quoted figures showing that according to the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Service, in 2014 of the 1,211 people in Maine arrested on charges of drug sales or manufacturing only 14.1 percent were black, and almost all the rest were white. LePage's comments were widely condemned by Democrats and some Republicans, including U.S. Senator Susan Collins, State Senate President Michael Thibodeau, State House Minority Leader Kenneth Fredette, State Senator Roger Katz, and State Senator David Woodsome. Leading Democrats have called LePage "unfit" to serve and have demanded his resignation. On August 30, 2016, days after making his controversial remarks, LePage said that he was strongly considering resigning. In that case Maine's Senate President would assume the office of governor. 2016 voter suppression On November 8, 2016, LePage was accused by students of two colleges in Lewiston of distributing orange fliers containing false information about fees and residency requirements. The fliers said that in order to register to vote in Lewiston, students must pay to change their driver's licenses to a Lewiston address "within 30 days". They also said students must pay "hundreds of dollars" to re-register vehicles and did not give a time frame. The president of Bates College, Clayton Spencer, labeled the situation as "clearly a deliberate attempt at voter suppression," which prompted backlash from LePage. He asserted the flyer's validity, stating, "Democrats for decades have encouraged college students from out of state to vote in Maine, even though there is no way to determine whether these college students also voted in their home states." The Maine Democratic Party leader, Phil Bartlett, and Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said the information was false and said enrolled students living in the community could vote. State law does not require a Maine driver's license to vote, and establishing residency for voting doesn't mean one has to pay any fees. Dunlap said LePage's remarks "inflame an atmosphere of doubt and fear among the voters." Pardon power use While governor, LePage issued 236 pardons to 115 people. One of his last acts as governor was to pardon former Republican state representative Jeffrey Pierce for a felony drug trafficking conviction 35 years prior. Pierce lost his reelection effort after Democrats discussed his felony conviction during the