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http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/.../08/03/dickerson-voter-impersonator/87993508/
I've only quoted some of the story, click link above to see the level of sheer fail and desparation...
Yet another swing and miss from someone on the right trying to demonstrate a problem that does not exist and desperate to disenfranchise legal voters...
I've only quoted some of the story, click link above to see the level of sheer fail and desparation...
James OKeefe is a professional liar.
He just isnt very good at it.
For the last four years, OKeefe has been on a crusade to convince Americans that voter fraud poses a mortal threat to their democracy.
This week, the 32-year old conservative activist brought his social media circus to Southeast Michigan, where, in a whirlwind day of political theater, he and a female associate attempted to obtain primary ballots while posing consecutively as Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, Wayne State University Law School Dean Jocelyn Benson, and three members of the Free Press editorial board, including yours truly.
I wish I could muster some righteous indignation over this outrage. But the thing is, O'Keefe didn't get very far.
And as it turns out, he never does.
Still, in a YouTube posting a few hours later, the millennial reprobate boasted that he had come this close to passing himself off as a newspaper columnist who is 1) old enough to be his father and 2) a helluva a lot better looking (or, at the very least, somewhat better-groomed.)
OKeefe also claimed that a video in which he surreptitiously documented his ruse demonstrated the need for stricter voter identification laws.
Except that he didnt, and it doesnt.
Yet another swing and miss from someone on the right trying to demonstrate a problem that does not exist and desperate to disenfranchise legal voters...