James O’Keefe Tries to Prove Voter Fraud, Gets Owned Again...

[umbrella39]

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...

James O’Keefe is a professional liar.

He just isn’t very good at it.

For the last four years, O’Keefe 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.)

O’Keefe also claimed that a video in which he surreptitiously documented his ruse demonstrated the need for stricter voter identification laws.

Except that he didn’t, and it doesn’t.

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...

 

[linthat22]

I'd suggest going to blackboxvoting.org for real examples of fraud.

 

[DrDoug]

I think O'Queef needs to go back to that plan of his that involved a boat and a dildo but this time make it a row boat in the middle of the ocean with him in it playing the part of the dildo.

No oars...

 

[Bitek]

What's sad is that this douche probably makes a decent chunk of change just being a professional conservatroll.

As I've said before, the GOP base is a magic money machine, feed it stupid and dollars fly out.

The parade of these clowns is endless...

 

[sandorski]

What's sad is that this douche probably makes a decent chunk of change just being a professional conservatroll.

As I've said before, the GOP base is a magic money machine, feed it stupid and dollars fly out.

The parade of these clowns is endless...

He's likely Funded by a "Think Tank".

 

[woolfe9998]

I don't get it. The GOP has already passed these voter ID's laws to cure this "problem." So why are they out trying to gather evidence to prove the problem exists? If they didn't have such evidence at hand before, why did they pass these laws?

 

[trenchfoot]

Truly, he is only throwing cheap red meat down the darkened cellar stairs for the minions to feast on and be sated from it.

Admitted to or not, anyone else knows for a fact what these Voter ID laws are actually meant to accomplish.

 

[HomerJS]

I don't get it. The GOP has already passed these voter ID's laws to cure this "problem." So why are they out trying to gather evidence to prove the problem exists? If they didn't have such evidence at hand before, why did they pass these laws?

Why? This is why just in case others think its to protect the integrity of the vote...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOT1bRYdK8

 

[Pens1566]

He needs to be launched into the sun.

 

[umbrella39]

He needs to be launched into the sun.

Just heard on the news charges might be coming...

 

[woolfe9998]

Why? This is why just in case others think its to protect the integrity of the vote...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOT1bRYdK8

I was asking a rhetorical question. I know why they passed those laws.

 

[HomerJS]

I was asking a rhetorical question. I know why they passed those laws.

I know. That's for the other usual suspects

 

[glenn1]

Yeah, silly man ought to know that you need to bring some "proof" of the identity you're trying to vote under. Like a utility bill kept in the ultra high security safety of someone's mailbox. The effort required to pick up a 1 oz envelope is surely enough to deter anyone without the proper tools and training from having all they need to vote under your name.

 

[soundforbjt]

Yeah, silly man ought to know that you need to bring some "proof" of the identity you're trying to vote under. Like a utility bill kept in the ultra high security safety of someone's mailbox. The effort required to pick up a 1 oz envelope is surely enough to deter anyone without the proper tools and training from having all they need to vote under your name.

Since it's so easy, perhaps you can link cases of it occurring with such regularity that protection against it warrants the passage of voter ID laws. Surely you have proof, right?

 

[Spungo]

The guy must be a dummy if he thinks that's how voter fraud works. Yes, it's done using a huge conspiracy where millions of people vote twice.

What a non-idiot would realize is that it's much easier to throw out the real paper ballots and replace them with pre-marked paper ballots. Your photo ID thingy does nothing to stop this.

 

[fskimospy]

The guy must be a dummy if he thinks that's how voter fraud works. Yes, it's done using a huge conspiracy where millions of people vote twice.

What a non-idiot would realize is that it's much easier to throw out the real paper ballots and replace them with pre-marked paper ballots. Your photo ID thingy does nothing to stop this.

It's also the one where it's easiest to get caught. If you're going to steal an election by far the best way to do it is through corrupt poll workers. If you don't have those, mail in ballots are the next best way. Going into a polling place to impersonate someone else in order to cast a single extra vote has such a laughably bad risk/reward calculation that you would have to be a complete moron to do it.

 

[zinfamous]

What's sad is that this douche probably makes a decent chunk of change just being a professional conservatroll.

As I've said before, the GOP base is a magic money machine, feed it stupid and dollars fly out.

The parade of these clowns is endless...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/james-okeefe-accidentally-stings-himself

This is actually hilarious, when you realize how incompetent this numbskull correspondence school dropout is with all of his attempted "stings"

 

[dainthomas]

As long as he's on a "crimes that never happen" kick, I'm waiting for the videos of him cutting the tags off mattresses.

 

[Painman]

James O'Keefe is a fucking asshole. His entire schtick is to have his lackeys go to polling places and candidly pretend to be people that they aren't.

As if this practice is widespread... it's only "widespread" because of O'Keefe.

If he weren't right wing, he's be employed by CNN.

 

[thraashman]

I know. That's for the other usual suspects

The thing is, those other usual suspects know too. The difference is they like the idea of disenfranchisement if it might help their team win. Shitty people are ok with other shitty people doing shitty things.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

James O'Keefe is a fucking asshole. His entire schtick is to have his lackeys go to polling places and candidly pretend to be people that they aren't.

As if this practice is widespread... it's only "widespread" because of O'Keefe.

If he weren't right wing, he's be employed by CNN.

That and, unlike actual journalists, he only presents a lopsided, edited and highly prejudicial view. He does not come back to the sources after and find out what occurred when he left. What they knew, suspected or reported. And the people who lap it up don't bother to find out on their own.