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Related: About this forumVoter registration groups in North Carolina and Wisconsin fear they were targeted in undercover ...
Voter registration groups in North Carolina and Wisconsin fear they were targeted in undercover stings by James O'Keefe and other conservative operatives.
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Liberal groups fear election infiltration from OKeefe and allies
This summer, a mystery man named James Fortune began approaching voting rights groups in North Carolina. ... Fortune, who claimed to be the operator of a progressive-minded North Carolina gym called Equality Gym, donated a few thousand dollars to the groups. Then he started asking whether they could illegally register undocumented immigrants to vote.
As the groups became suspicious, Fortune vanishedleaving behind only a blurry picture of himself, no proof that his gym actually existed, and suspicions that he was using an alias. But the wired money came from a Georgia group with ties to a QAnon House candidate and a network of other Republican figures, raising suspicions among the groups that Fortune was working for right-wing undercover prankster James OKeefe or an OKeefe imitator.
Right around the same time that Fortune was attempting to infiltrate progressive North Carolina groups, a so-called documentary film crew called Zeitgeist Pictures began interviewing six liberal groups in Wisconsin for what they claimed was a documentary about voting rights. The groups became suspicious, though, after the filmmakers began asking whether the groups were willing to break the law to illegally register voters.
The film crew disappeared as the groups grew more suspicious when they found no proof, aside from a barebones website, that theres an actual film company called Zeitgeist Pictures. The activists interviewed by the crew claim they were able to identify one of their interviewers as OKeefe associate Christian Hartsock, using pictures of Hartsock online. ... Unlike the Wisconsin operation, the North Carolina scheme hasnt been publicly linked to OKeefe, and Project Veritas spokesman Neil W. McCabe said OKeefes group wont comment on investigations, real or imagined. But on Monday, Project Veritas plans to release a video that OKeefe claims will offer UNDENIABLE VIDEO PROOF OF SYSTEMIC VOTER FRAUD.
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Liberal groups fear election infiltration from OKeefe and allies
This summer, a mystery man named James Fortune began approaching voting rights groups in North Carolina. ... Fortune, who claimed to be the operator of a progressive-minded North Carolina gym called Equality Gym, donated a few thousand dollars to the groups. Then he started asking whether they could illegally register undocumented immigrants to vote.
As the groups became suspicious, Fortune vanishedleaving behind only a blurry picture of himself, no proof that his gym actually existed, and suspicions that he was using an alias. But the wired money came from a Georgia group with ties to a QAnon House candidate and a network of other Republican figures, raising suspicions among the groups that Fortune was working for right-wing undercover prankster James OKeefe or an OKeefe imitator.
Right around the same time that Fortune was attempting to infiltrate progressive North Carolina groups, a so-called documentary film crew called Zeitgeist Pictures began interviewing six liberal groups in Wisconsin for what they claimed was a documentary about voting rights. The groups became suspicious, though, after the filmmakers began asking whether the groups were willing to break the law to illegally register voters.
The film crew disappeared as the groups grew more suspicious when they found no proof, aside from a barebones website, that theres an actual film company called Zeitgeist Pictures. The activists interviewed by the crew claim they were able to identify one of their interviewers as OKeefe associate Christian Hartsock, using pictures of Hartsock online. ... Unlike the Wisconsin operation, the North Carolina scheme hasnt been publicly linked to OKeefe, and Project Veritas spokesman Neil W. McCabe said OKeefes group wont comment on investigations, real or imagined. But on Monday, Project Veritas plans to release a video that OKeefe claims will offer UNDENIABLE VIDEO PROOF OF SYSTEMIC VOTER FRAUD.
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Voter registration groups in North Carolina and Wisconsin fear they were targeted in undercover ... (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Sep 2020
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brewens
(15,359 posts)1. Sure, someone could go around and register thousands, if not millions of illegals, and
not have a bunch ratting them out. Many that they targeted and approached would turn out to be legal and republicans.
blm
(113,829 posts)2. Bad headline implies the groups fear being exposed. Should put guilt on Ihe ploy.
LessAspin
(1,414 posts)3. K & R