New Line Of Attack: Voting Integrity Group Uses Sting Videos In FEC Complaint Over ‘Rigged’ Elections
Hillary for America is in the crosshairs.
Advertisement - story continues below
The mainstream media have been mocking Republican Donald Trump’s complaints of a potentially “rigged” election, but this might force them to take notice.
With the release this week of a second undercover video documenting the lengths some Democrat operatives will go to return Hillary Clinton to the White House, one group has taken its complaints to the Federal Election Commission, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
And that means it’s likely to be embarrassing Democrats for a long time to come – no matter what happens on Nov. 8.
In the first video released Monday by conservative guerrilla videographer James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas, an operative for the Democrat-allied group Americans United for Change is shown discussing his group’s tactics at length, including provoking violent confrontations at Trump campaign rallies.
In the second video, released Tuesday, the same operative, Scott Foval — who has since been fired — continued his lengthy and often obscene description of Democrat tactics.
“It’s a very easy thing for Republicans to say, ‘well, they’re busing people in,’” Foval said, in a conversation recorded by a Project Veritas hidden camera. “Well, you know what? We’ve been busing people for 50 years to deal with you f****** a**holes and we’re not going to stop now. We’re just going to find different ways to do it.”
“This complaint is based on information and belief that respondents have engaged in public communications, campaign activity, targeted voter registration drives, and other targeted [get out the vote] activity … at the request, direction, and approval of the Hillary for America campaign committee and the Democratic National Committee,” the complaint states, citing the applicable federal laws.
“Complainant’s information and belief is based on findings from an investigation conducted by Project Veritas Action and their published reports regarding the same, as well as on news sources.”
Now, a couple of things need to be acknowledged right off. First, O’Keefe has a history of pushing the envelope of legality when it comes to getting the dirt on Democrat operations. In 2010, he was convicted of a misdemeanor related to a failed attempt to break into the office of then Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana as part of an investigation into Democrat lawmakers during the congressional battle over Obamacare.
Also, while O’Keefe’s videos have been celebrated by conservatives – and actually blew up the organization formerly known as ACORN with the prostitution sting that launched O’Keefe into celebrity back in 2009 – their impact has been generally limited by a mainstream media that looks the other way, intent on protecting liberal causes.
Like the undercover videos of Planned Parenthood employees discussing the horrifying practice of selling the dismembered body parts of aborted babies, they’ve caused a huge stir on their release, but have generated such a strong liberal counterattack that the lasting results have been hard to document.
But now that the latest O’Keefe videos have spurred an official complaint by the group dedicated to protecting the integrity of the voting system, this exposure of Democrat misdeeds might make for a more lasting impact.
J. Christian Adams, the former federal prosecutor who resigned his Justice Department position in 2009 in a protest over how Attorney General Eric Holder handled a voter intimidation complaint case against New Black Panther Party members in Philadelphia, is now president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
In a statement, he said O’Keefe’s latest video should spur the kind of election law vigilance that’s been missing from the Justice Department since Barack Obama was sworn in to the presidency.
“American voter rolls are corrupted with unacceptable numbers of aliens who are illegally registered to vote,” the statement said.
“Groups should not be coordinating with campaigns and political parties to exploit vulnerabilities in our election system. We hope this matter is fully investigated by the FEC and that if aliens are voting, they are prosecuted by the Justice Department. That would mark a change in DOJ policies of the last 7 years.”
That’s going depend a great deal on who’s going to be sworn in to the presidency on Jan. 20, 2017.
And that depends on an honest vote on Nov. 8 – one that isn’t “rigged” by political operatives or the mainstream media.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Thanks for commenting. Your comments are needed for helping to improve the discussion.