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Posted on 03/21/2023 7:50:13 AM PDT by algore
A Trump-supporting Twitter influencer who is charged with conspiring to deprive citizens of their right to vote in the 2016 presidential election has appeared for trial in federal court.
Douglass Mackey, 33 - known on the internet as 'Ricky Vaughn' - is standing trial over his tweets encouraging Hillary Clinton supporters to cast meaningless votes by text message, instead of casting an actual ballot.
Following the first day of trial on Monday, Mackey was spotted leaving the Brooklyn federal courthouse dressed in a navy suit, white shirt, and pink polka-dot tie, with his father walking at his side.
During his opening remarks, Mackey's attorney Andrew Frisch argued that his memes encouraging Clinton supporters to 'vote from home' by text were simply 'online trash-talking' in the hopes of gaining viral fame.
'Mr. Mackey did not share the memes as some sort of grand plan,' Frisch told the jury, according to the New York Daily News, arguing that the idea of voting by text was patently ridiculous to anyone with basic knowledge of US elections.
According to a criminal complaint, Mackey and unnamed co-conspirators created a number of images purporting to be Clinton campaign ads, with messages such as 'Avoid the Line. Vote from Home. Text 'Hillary' to 59925.'
The phony campaign ads also carried fine print falsely claiming they were 'Paid for by Hillary for President 2016'.
The phone number in the fake ads received least 4,900 text message responses with variations on Clinton's name, including some from people in New York, prosecutors said
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That too.
So…..
Why do people believe they can vote by text? Did people tell them
That when they registered to vote? I mean, it seems ludicrous to believe that official votes would be counted via text messaging overall, but more so
If you never registered to vote.
How many people ended up voting like this and believing it was real??
“The phone number in the fake ads received least 4,900 text message responses with variations on Clinton’s name, including some from people in New York, prosecutors said”
And not one “Trump” text. Goes to show who the stupids side with.
The 1A is a wonderful thing. But the rights it describes are not unlimited.
For example, suppose I find out where you live. And I put an ad in the paper saying that this house is vacant, and be claimed by anyone. Oh, and I put an official Housing and Urban Development seal at the bottom. So you get all sorts of riff-raff at your door.
Do you have cause to take action against me? Or is my ad a 1A protected activity?
If you wish to reply in a civil manner, I’d love to hear your counter-argument. I might even learn something. But if you are planning to just throw out another personal insult, please pass and save us both some time.
When I was still on FascistBook (for Trolling reasons only), I once commented on a post that the leftist poster should be ready to vote on “Wednesday,” trying to throw a little tongue-in-cheek joke her way. I was severely reprimanded by FB and put in FB “jail” for a month, for “election disinformation.”
I can imagine these days I’d been charged with a crime.
I’d like to know how many of the 4900 who voted this way also voted in person.
As much as the media try to spin what was said above, The Great Orator ™ worded his response in such a way that it revealed that there was no way to determine if the vote was cast by a citizen or illegal invader. What's good for the goose/gander.
“The 1A is a wonderful thing”
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Doesn’t look like you feel that way to me.
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“I’d love to hear your counter-argument.”
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I gave it, the 1st Amendment text has no satire disclosure requirement.
As for your strawman, not gonna let you pivot away to a strawman whack a mole of moving goalposts arguments foisted as a debate.
You being a RINO tool isn’t meant as an insult ,
it’s just an observation.
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I’m too old to trade insults. Plus I’ve found that they never advance the cause.
So I’ll just quote someone I have great respect for, the man who founded this site.
“Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks…”
You got correctly rebutted
on the “ “satire disclaimer”
so you moved the goalpoast with your strawman , cuz you lost the first exchange.
Your second argument does not remedy your first loss.
Classic typical bait and switch libtard pivot move.
Leaning right ?
BWA HA ha.
Hardly.
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“Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks…”
“The phony campaign ads also carried fine print falsely claiming they were ‘Paid for by Hillary for President 2016’.”
The red box satire is an overlay on an actual Hillary For President ad. This is nothing more than graffiti.
EC
Ruh Rho
I guess I should have put a
“Satire disclaimer” on that meme ?
Or do I need to go to prison ?
Not insults
Not an attack
Observations.
I seem to recall someone pushing the obviously false and somewhat humorous announcement that one party votes on Tuesday and the other party votes on Wednesday. Don’t recall which side was pushing this...
> Not insults Not an attack Observations. <
You can call a cow a horse, but it’s still a cow.
As a side note, I struggle to understand why you chose the direction you did. You’ve been on Free Republic for quite a while, and I have been here for longer still. So you know folks are going to have disagreements.
Why not take the opportunity to civilly educate? Then everyone wins. Let me give you an example of that. Maybe a year ago I made a comment about NATO. It turns out my comment was dead wrong. Another Freeper came along and civilly explained where I was wrong. I appreciated that.
And by the same token, I try to do the same. I know quite a bit about unions and about quantum mechanics (that’s a very odd combination, I know). Sometimes folks here will say something wildly wrong - crazy wrong - about one of those topics. I choose to be helpful, as others have been helpful to me.
I’ll give you the last word, as ‘Gunsmoke’ will be on soon. I try to catch it when I can.
Sure dude,,,sure.
Cons never give up the con.
Fwi, That’s another observation .
Dems vote Wed, Gop on Tuesday.
” People should know better. If they don’t, they have no business voting anyway.”
Exactly.
Better to tell people that Republicans vote on Tuesday, and Democrats vote on Wednesday.
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