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BeckyDem

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Thu Oct 1, 2020, 06:44 PM Oct 2020

Conservative hoaxers face charges over false voter robocalls

By RYAN J. FOLEY
an hour ago

Two notorious conservative operatives were charged Thursday with felonies in connection with false robocalls that aimed to dissuade residents in Detroit and other U.S. cities from voting by mail, Michigan’s attorney general announced.

Jacob Wohl, 22, and Jack Burkman, 54, each face four felony counts in Detroit, including conspiring to intimidate voters in violation of election law and using a computer to commit crimes, Attorney General Dana Nessel said.

The calls falsely warned residents in majority-Black Detroit and urban areas in at least four other states that voting by mail in the Nov. 3 election could subject people to arrest, debt collection and forced vaccination, Nessel said.

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-technology-arrests-michigan-voting-rights-e0d49155dc8f347b1347cf779fd43812?utm_medium=AP_Politics&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter

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Conservative hoaxers face charges over false voter robocalls (Original Post) BeckyDem Oct 2020 OP
Good. dchill Oct 2020 #1
Ah, two more martyrs to stupidity...hopefully it takes this time and they don't slime their way out Thomas Hurt Oct 2020 #2
I was thinking the same. BeckyDem Oct 2020 #3
Lock these assholes up Gothmog Oct 2020 #4
They need to be. BeckyDem Oct 2020 #5

Thomas Hurt

(13,982 posts)
2. Ah, two more martyrs to stupidity...hopefully it takes this time and they don't slime their way out
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 07:11 PM
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