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NH AG Investigating O’Keefe Group for Undercover Vid Showing Them Posing as Dead Voters to Get Ballots
The Blaze
Madeleine Morgenstern
1/12/2012
Thanks to 'Give Us Liberty' (http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/) for the reference to the article. The article was posted 1/13/2012 there, with this lead in:
"THE NH AG NEEDS TO INVESTIGATE HIS CORRUPT BALLOT LAW COMMISSION BEFORE HE STARTS WORRYING ABOUT VIDEOS THAT SHOW FURTHER VOTER FRAUD!"
Excerpts from the article at 'The Blaze':
"The New Hampshire attorney general‘s office is investigating after a video surfaced that appears to show people using the names of deceased individuals to obtain ballots on the day of the state’s presidential primary, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported.
The 10-minute video is from activist filmmaker James O‘Keefe’s Project Veritas, and is meant to expose flaws in New Hampshire’s lax voting regulations by showing poll workers readily handing over ballots in the names of dead individuals still on voter rolls. New Hampshire doesn’t require photo ID to vote as long as the person is registered.
In the hidden camera footage, O‘Keefe’s phony voters approach workers at multiple polling places and receive a total of nine ballots using the names of recently deceased individuals. No fraudulent votes appear to have actually been cast, with the person leaving after receiving each ballot.
New Hampshire state law makes it illegal to use a false name to obtain a ballot. It’s also a crime to make an audio recording of someone without their consent or to “record an election official without permission.”
According to the Union Leader, state Associate Attorney General Richard Head said his office became aware of the effort on Election Day and began investigating immediately.........................
Nashua City Clerk Paul Bergeron is outraged, according to the Nashua Patch, and said he believes the filmmakers should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law..............................
And if the filmmakers crossed state lines to record the video, Bergeron believes they may have committed a federal crime as well.
“They recorded it without election officials’ knowledge, which appears to be a violation of our New Hampshire wiretapping codes, and some of these are out of state residents, so I don’t know if violations of wiretapping or ID theft could hold up in court, but if they crossed state lines to commit these crimes, it may be a federal crime as well,” he said. “This is serious. We won’t tolerate voter fraud, regardless of what the intent might be.”
The Republican mayor of Manchester, Ted Gastas, is also furious, telling the Union Leader, “They should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
View the complete article at:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nh-a...o-get-ballots/
The Blaze
Madeleine Morgenstern
1/12/2012
Thanks to 'Give Us Liberty' (http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/) for the reference to the article. The article was posted 1/13/2012 there, with this lead in:
"THE NH AG NEEDS TO INVESTIGATE HIS CORRUPT BALLOT LAW COMMISSION BEFORE HE STARTS WORRYING ABOUT VIDEOS THAT SHOW FURTHER VOTER FRAUD!"
Excerpts from the article at 'The Blaze':
"The New Hampshire attorney general‘s office is investigating after a video surfaced that appears to show people using the names of deceased individuals to obtain ballots on the day of the state’s presidential primary, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported.
The 10-minute video is from activist filmmaker James O‘Keefe’s Project Veritas, and is meant to expose flaws in New Hampshire’s lax voting regulations by showing poll workers readily handing over ballots in the names of dead individuals still on voter rolls. New Hampshire doesn’t require photo ID to vote as long as the person is registered.
In the hidden camera footage, O‘Keefe’s phony voters approach workers at multiple polling places and receive a total of nine ballots using the names of recently deceased individuals. No fraudulent votes appear to have actually been cast, with the person leaving after receiving each ballot.
New Hampshire state law makes it illegal to use a false name to obtain a ballot. It’s also a crime to make an audio recording of someone without their consent or to “record an election official without permission.”
According to the Union Leader, state Associate Attorney General Richard Head said his office became aware of the effort on Election Day and began investigating immediately.........................
Nashua City Clerk Paul Bergeron is outraged, according to the Nashua Patch, and said he believes the filmmakers should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law..............................
And if the filmmakers crossed state lines to record the video, Bergeron believes they may have committed a federal crime as well.
“They recorded it without election officials’ knowledge, which appears to be a violation of our New Hampshire wiretapping codes, and some of these are out of state residents, so I don’t know if violations of wiretapping or ID theft could hold up in court, but if they crossed state lines to commit these crimes, it may be a federal crime as well,” he said. “This is serious. We won’t tolerate voter fraud, regardless of what the intent might be.”
The Republican mayor of Manchester, Ted Gastas, is also furious, telling the Union Leader, “They should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
View the complete article at:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nh-a...o-get-ballots/