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kpete

(71,981 posts)
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 07:48 PM Jan 2012

dupe

The Joke’s Over

O’Keefe Allies Could Face Voter Fraud Charges

Update, Jan. 11, 5:00PM: Mark Zuckerman, a federal prosecutor in the New Hampshire U.S. Attorney’s Office, told TPM he recently became aware of the Project Veritas video and was reviewing it but hadn’t formed any opinion on whether it presented an issue.

It was one of the few — if not the only — coordinated efforts to attempt in-person voter fraud, and it was pulled off by affiliates of conservative activist James O’Keefe at polling places in New Hampshire Tuesday night. All of it part of an attempt to prove the need for voter ID laws that voting rights experts say have a unfair impact on minority voters.

Now election law experts tell TPM that O’Keefe’s allies could face criminal charges on both the federal and state level for procuring ballots under false names, and that his undercover sting doesn’t demonstrate a need for voter ID laws at all.

Federal law bans not only the casting of, but the “procurement” of ballots “that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held.”

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dupe (Original Post) kpete Jan 2012 OP
isn't he on probation for his last episode? onethatcares Jan 2012 #1
K & EffingR!! malaise Jan 2012 #2
Won't it be so nice to see this cretin frog marched into the court house madokie Jan 2012 #3

onethatcares

(16,165 posts)
1. isn't he on probation for his last episode?
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 07:51 PM
Jan 2012

at Senator Landreuxs office? (i'm not certain of the spelling of the senators name, so excuse me )

madokie

(51,076 posts)
3. Won't it be so nice to see this cretin frog marched into the court house
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 07:55 PM
Jan 2012
Shackled hand and foot.
When I read, see or hear of him first thing that comes to mind is PUNK. and I don't like punks

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