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PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/data-shows-odd-clusters-of-florida-voters-switching-to-republican-party-133441093683?cid=eml_mra_20220218&user_email=e73377d3e40790eecbf6a99203e1476ea2a23c644c2045abd739b8f9e629a73b


The Miami Herald is reporting that large clusters of voters have had their party affiliation mysteriously switched to Republican without their knowledge.


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The Miami Herald is reporting that large clusters of voters have had their party affiliation mysteriously switched to Republican without their knowledge.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 1:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-strikes-down-matt-gaetz-claim-voter-suppression-is-free-speech/ar-AA16uyG8?ocid=wn_startbrowsing&cvid=a461b899f7ee439ea1c4dfe21af11f00

Judge strikes down Matt Gaetz claim voter suppression is free speech


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Two far-right social media influencers were arrested in 2021 after working online to suppress votes targeting people of color in 2016. Things aren't going well in court for them, however.

Rep. Matthew Louis Gaetz, II
Rep. Matthew Louis Gaetz, II
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"Douglass Mackey, aka Ricky Vaughn, 31, of West Palm Beach, was charged by criminal complaint in the Eastern District of New York," the Justice Department said in a release after the arrest. "He was taken into custody ... in West Palm Beach and made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart of the Southern District of Florida."

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“According to the allegations in the complaint, the defendant exploited a social media platform to infringe one the of most basic and sacred rights guaranteed by the Constitution: the right to vote,” said Nicholas L. McQuaid, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “This complaint underscores the department’s commitment to investigating and prosecuting those who would undermine citizens’ voting rights.”

Mackey is a white nationalist troll that has built his profile as a pro-Trump activist name “Ricky Vaughn."

Mackey's lawyers had two motions before the court, one to change the venue from the Eastern District of New York and a motion to dismiss the charges because his right to tweet whatever he wants falls under the First Amendment. The judge ruled Wednesday that both of those motions are being denied.

"Defendant Mackey's motion to dismiss the Indictment is denied," the judge said in the order. "This court finds first that a reasonable jury could hold, under any one of several theories, that it was reasonably foreseeable that Tweets from a Manhattan-based Twitter personality with thousands of followers would reach or pass through a judicial district as large as the Eastern District of New York, and that venue was therefore properly laid in the district," the judge continued.

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"Finally, 18 USC §241 as applied in the indictment does not, as a matter of law, violate the First Amendment because although the case involves false utterances, it is at its core, about conspiracy and injury, not speech. To the extent that the case does implicate the First Amendment, it is constitutional under the standard false utterances set forth by the Supreme Court in United States v.Alvarez .... Although Defendant Mackey contends that the false utterances are protected as satirical speech, that is an issue of fact for the jury."

Mackey is accused of making ads that encouraged voters of Hillary Clinton to text their vote. If they did, they should think that their vote was officially cast. That is a lie. The complaint says that Mackey tricked about 5,000 people into miscasting a Hillary Clinton ballot.

National security expert and legal commentator Marcy Wheeler pointed out that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has been one of the biggest advocates of what he calls "Freedom of Speech" but at all costs.

"The First Amendment doesn't exist to protect comfortable speech. It exists to protect uncomfortable speech," said Gaetz. "If we can't have the freedom to express ourselves online, what's the point of the First Amendment anyway?"

Mackey's antics are the same kind of activity that is at the heart of a great deal of FBI reports to Twitter in 2020 and 2024," Wheeler pointed out. Gaetz and other Republicans in Congress have taken issue with the FBI reaching out to Twitter to report possible illegal activity or activity that violates the Twitter terms of service.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been promoting such emails and contact as an example of federal government overreach. One such email he posted was from 2022, after he took over the platform. The San Francisco office of the FBI suggested a ban on a few accounts for what they said they believed were violations of Twitter. Under Musk's leadership, three of the four accounts are still suspended.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

as we know they do this every election, past ones were with robo calls to say because of the huge turn out vote on Wednesday.

right wing massive vote fraud...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-rules-right-wing-operatives-jacob-wohl-and-partner-violated-voting-rights-act-by-misleading-black-voters/ar-AA18v4pj?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=cf56968913104c3eb4639d1a0ba7dc57&ei=62

Judge Rules Right Wing Operatives Jacob Wohl and Partner Violated Voting Rights Act By Misleading Black Voters


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A New York federal judge ruled this week that two right-wing activists violated the Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act with a robocall scheme intended to deter Black voters during the 2020 presidential election.

Jacob Wohl gives interview March 2 at CPAC 2023 in National Harbor, Maryland
Jacob Wohl gives interview March 2 at CPAC 2023 in National Harbor, Maryland
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Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman pleaded guilty in October to telecommunications fraud by placing calls with financial and legal threats to majority-Black neighborhood voters, MSNBC reports.

U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero stated the targeting of Black voters by the defendants was evident and apparent.

According to the ruling (PDF), “The evidence establishes that the neighborhoods that Defendants targeted were not accidental or random.”

Marrero’s ruling added that the robocall scripts Wohl and Burkman used “contained racially coded language, and that the operatives acted with the specific intent to deter “Black, Democratic voters – – from voting in the 2020 Election.”

“The Court is hard-pressed to find an alternative theory as to why they [Wohl and Burkman] did so besides to deny the right to vote specifically to Black voters, and a reasonable jury likewise would not be able to find otherwise,” said the judge in ruling for the plaintiffs, including the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation.

On Wednesday, Damon Hewitt, the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights Under Law said that he applauds the illegal and discriminatory use of robocalls, but that there is still unfinished work to do with expanding voting right for Black voters and all Americans.

The post Judge Rules Right Wing Operatives Jacob Wohl and Partner Violated Voting Rights Act By Misleading Black Voters first appeared on Mediaite.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

right wing heros the guys involved in this... they lied and robo called 85000 people of targeting black areas saying to vote by test is legal and said they are part of the clinton campaign.

over 5000 call went to vote to that text number.

https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/S.D.N.Y.-20-cv-08668-dckt-000240_000-filed-2022-08-12.pdf

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/you-cant-vote-by-tweet-or-text-dont-get-fooled/

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2023 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ohio-purged-26-000-voters-days-before-abortion-referendum-deadline/ar-AA1jkdXZ?cvid=5c47e6fe650943d1d47de739273e9d9e&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=82

Ohio purged 26,000 voters days before abortion referendum deadline


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Ohio’s Republican secretary of state quietly canceled the voter registrations of more than 26,000 voters in late September, less than two weeks before the deadline to register to vote in next week’s hotly contested abortion referendum in the state.

Voting rights advocates say the process lacked transparency and departed from Frank LaRose’s usual practice of alerting groups before removing registrations from the rolls. And it comes as LaRose campaigns hard against the 7 November constitutional amendment vote – when Ohio voters will decide whether to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution – as well as a vote on a separate measure to legalize marijuana.


“We are disappointed in the secretary of state’s office’s authorization of the voter purge while voting for the November election was already (and still is) under way,” Kayla Griffin, of the voting rights group All Voting is Local, said.

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