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James O'Keefe, a discredited liar with a history of releasing deceptively edited videos that ultimately fail to back up his claims, has released his latest video. This one purports to demonstrate how "Dead People Vote" in New Hampshire, but instead largely shows the logical incoherence of the right wing's voter fraud paranoia.
For years, conservatives have fearmongered about the perils of voter fraud; nearly every election brings with it new claims from the right that Democrats and their ACORN allies are on the verge of stealing elections. While actual examples of such fraud are extremely rare, conservatives have used this hysteria to push through laws in several states requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls in order to vote. Such laws have not yet spread to New Hampshire, where Gov. John Lynch vetoed a voter ID bill last year.
With his last set of videos largely seen as meaningless and pathetic, his fundraising in shambles, and his allies leaving him in disgust, O'Keefe clearly hopes to press this non-issue to revive his standing in the conservative movement. As always, the Daily Caller is happy to help out, already trumpeting the "bombshell video" that they received "exclusively" from O'Keefe.
O'Keefe Video Doesn't Show "Dead People Vote In NH"
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In the service of this aim, O'Keefe and associate Spencer Meads visited a number of polling locations during the January 10 New Hampshire primaries armed with hidden cameras. At each polling location, the videographer in question would approach a poll worker who was checking in voters and ask the poll worker if a recently deceased voter's name is on the rolls. When the poll worker, assuming that the right-wing operative is presenting themselves as that person, attempts to give them a ballot, the videographer says that they don't have their ID and leaves. O'Keefe provided the Daily Caller the following explanation for the purpose of the video:
In an interview with TheDC on Wednesday, O'Keefe said the exposé shows how voter fraud can be easier to perpetrate when identification isn't required.
"There is fraud going on and our goal is to visualize it for people," he said.
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#1 - Wed Jan 11, 2012 4:57 PM EST
From TPM:
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.”
Hamline University law professor David Schultz told TPM that there’s “no doubt” that O’Keefe’s accomplices violated the law.
“In either case, if they were intentionally going in and trying to fraudulently obtain a ballot, they violated the law,” Schultz said. “So right off the bat, what they did violated the law.”
Election law expert Rick Hasen, who writes the Election Law Blog, joked in an email to TPM that O’Keefe’s team should “next show how easy it is to rob a bank with a plastic gun.”
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/election_law_experts_say_james_okeefe_accomplices_could_face_charges_over_voter_fraud_stunt.php
...talk about hapless, LOL.
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I saw the video and even in backwards SC we don't allow people to cast a ballot on word of mouth alone. Never have. Our voters are more responsible than the criminals like o'keefe. Like to see if james has the balls to TRY it in my precinct.......:eveil grin:
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I'm hearing that he and/or his cohorts could be brought up on voter fraud charges.Wouldn't that be sweet!
- 2 votes
#2 - Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:13 PM ESTI could link the ep of the Simpsons when Sideshow Bob became mayor
that had actual voter fraud, and it might make you laugh too
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#3 - Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:20 PM ESTAt each polling location, the videographer in question would approach a poll worker who was checking in voters and ask the poll worker if a recently deceased voter's name is on the rolls. When the poll worker, assuming that the right-wing operative is presenting themselves as that person, attempts to give them a ballot, the videographer says that they don't have their ID and leaves.
yeah, because how does that signature match up with the one on the books, huh?
"There is fraud going on and our goal is to visualize it for people," he said.
right; the way Salvador Dali visualizes other realms full of melting clocks, Pablo Picasso visualizes people, or a directors or CGI people visualize alien worlds and outer space or antiquity in movies for the people (not that O'Keefe is an artist any more than he's a journalist).
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