Posted on 04/09/2024 1:11:29 PM PDT by Red Badger
April 9 (UPI) -- New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on Tuesday that two men will pay $1.25 million for robocalls targeting Black New Yorkers before the 2020 general election discouraging them from voting by mail.
Conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were found liable in March 2023 for transmitting false information to more than 5,000 Black voters in the New York area in a threatening manner meant to discourage them from voting by mail.
Some of the claims made by the men, James said, suggested that voting information would be shared with law enforcement, debt collectors and the government.
"The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy, and its belongs to everyone," James said in a statement. "Wohl and Burkman orchestrated a depraved and disinformation-ridden campaign to intimidate Black voters in an attempt to sway the election in favor of their preferred candidate. My office will always defend the right to vote."
In October 2022, Wohl and Burkman each pleaded guilty in Ohio to a single felony charge in connection to making some 67,000 robocalls across the country that targeted minorities and suspected Democratic voters, warning them not to vote by mail.
James' office said one of the recorded calls said: "Did you know that if you vote by mail, your personal information will be part of a public database that will be used by police departments to track down old warrants and be used by credit card companies to collect outstanding debts? The CDC is even pushing to use the records for mail-in voting to track people for mandatory vaccines."
James' office said all of that information was false and against the law.
"This groundbreaking settlement should send an emphatic message to anyone who aims to prevent Black people from exercising their right to vote," Damon Hewitt, executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement. "Voter suppression and voter intimidation are illegal, immoral and anti-democratic."
Free speech
She isn’t concerned about liberal scammers.
Stupid people post stupid BS on FR.
New York needs to join Oregon, Washington and California and form their own communist country. Throw Michigan and a few others in and leave the rest of us alone.
Or it becomes election interference to have a Trump bumper sticker.
An admission?
I believe they admitted to targeting predominantly black neighborhoods. What makes you think they weren’t?
I sense the targeting comes from merely calling urban areas.
I looked around and see nothing to disprove that theory.
Gif off yo lazy ass and vote in a person.
Correct.
These guys were idiots - and yes, they did break the law.
That’s foolish. I see plenty of Trump bumper stickers and signage.
Making excuses for your Democrat pals, yet again, eh, joesDemocratOperative?
“”What makes you think they weren’t?””
What makes you think I said anything like that????
What was the purpose of the question?
The purpose of my question? Good grief - my question was pretty straight forward. Do you not speak English? Or is it because in our world today, there HAS to be a certain connotation to the spoken word?
HOW DID THEY KNOW THEY WERE CALLING BLACKS is a pretty simple question.
Frankly they were stupid. They should have focused on swing states.
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