Conservative provocateur O’Keefe baits two organizers into endorsing voter fraud

[angka]

Source: KDVR-TV FOX 31 Denver

For a few weeks, most of the Democratic organizers in Colorado who encountered James O’Keefe recognized and resisted the conservative provocateur’s attempts to bait them into endorsing voter fraud.

But not all of them.

Two days after a number of left-leaning media outlets first warned that O’Keefe has been in Colorado, he is releasing a nearly eight-minute video of edited footage taken over a few weeks of filming here.

It includes hidden-camera interactions with three young Democratic organizers, two of whom are recorded agreeing with O’Keefe’s suggestion that they fill out unmarked ballots in order to help Democratic Sen. Mark Udall hold onto his seat.

Read more: http://kdvr.com/2014/10/22/conservative-provocateur-okeefe-baits-organizers-into-endorsing-voter-fraud/

[sharp_stick]

1. Fuck James O'Keefe

and all who enable this little shit to continue his moronic crusade. That includes any news organization that reports on anything other than the fuckwits last known location.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

8. He can recline in his last known location permanently as far as I'm concerned.

POS POS

[JustAnotherGen]

2. I cannot believe they effin fell for it!

Are you freaking kidding me! They were fucking warned!

[Fred Sanders]

5. His videos are always HIGHLY EDITED and not worth butka...I wish DU would not post crap like

this.......not from any Fox outlet that will distort and lie and cover.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

9. I read of it last night at the Denver Post...

... I thought of posting it here, but figured someone from Colorado would be along to post it. I spend much time in the Denver/Aurora area assisting my 80 year old aunt, my ear specialist is in Englewood and consider it my second home.

[Judi Lynn]

16. Sad. I agree with you. We don't need this. It should do well at a right-wing site. n/t

[bobclark86]

12. Two morons...

well, three (O'Keefe included), but two who should know better. I thought most groups had training for this kind of thing.

[Politicalboi]

3. agreeing with O’Keefe’s suggestion

Is not illegal.

[meegbear]

4. So how come he's not being charged with voter fraud?

[noiretextatique]

6. can we please stop calling these extremists "conservative?"

they are fascist activists and there is nothing remotely "conservative" about them.

[JDPriestly]

7. Are you sure they were really Democrats?

[6000eliot]

10. Do the idiots who report this know that there is a difference between "endorsing voter fraud"

and actual voter fraud? Fucking news media morons!

[Dopers_Greed]

13. They don't care

Whatever will make it look they got the more sensational headline

[hedgehog]

14. I'm not certain the people on his tapes are who he says they are -

Near as I can make out - Works for Progress is a clearinghouse to hire people to work for non-profits and political campaigns. So it's possible that the woman he was talking with may have been hired through Works for Progress, by not by Works for Progress. That's just my guess after playing with Google for a little - I could be totally off-base.

[underpants]

11. Makeup? What happened to the Bin Laden mask?

[CANDO]

15. Why can't the SOB be arrested?

He's committing voter fraud!

[turbinetree]

17. Jail

Did he not with some co-horts try to bug a sitting congresswoman's office or was it a senator to intimidate and was he not allowed leave the state where he was CONVICTED, which means he cannot vote in some states.
Was he not given jail time and a probation that he would not do this kind of crap?
Why hasn't the organizers in Colorado filed charges against this little dirt bag, I mean really why is he not in front of a judge to answer questions of this entrapment that HE is creating, there is a law on the books that says you cannot create a crime to justify a crime

[idahoblue]

18. I don't get it.

Do they have actual ballots? How does that happen? I have worked a lot of elections. No one has a bunch of ballots just sitting around. A voter gets a ballot, marks or punches it, they put it in a locked box.

[seveneyes]

19. Any human devised system can be hacked

All you need are trusted dishonest people.

[Yupster]

20. Colorado is sending a ballot to every voter this election for the first time

whether the person requested one or not.

That will necessarily mean that thousands of ballots will be mailed to dead people or people who moved six months ago or people who have no intention of voting.

The completed ballots can either be mailed in or given to others (vote harvesters) who can deliver them to the election office.

When a ballot is turned in its signature is supposed to be compared to the signature on file. If a witness signs the ballot, no verification is needed.

The Democratic legislature passed the new system as a way to increase voter turmout. Republicans screamed it was an invitation for vote fraud hence O'Keefe's attempt to prove the point.

I was an election judge long ago too but that was at an actual polling place.

These ballots will be all through the mail with the difference that when a person requested a mail ballot he would be unlikely to throw it away or give it to someone else or leave it in the mailbox after he moved six months ago. This system is different. We'll see how it works out.

[erpowers]

21. How Do We Know This Is True

First, as usual with an O'Keefe film it is edited. Everyone should remember wht O'Keefe did with edited video in the ACORN situation. Second, are the supposed Democrats in the video actually Democrats. Once O'Keefe realized he could not trick any Democrats into agreeing to voter fraud he may have resorted to getting some of his Republican friends to pretend to be Democrats.

Now that this story is out how man people, especially those on the right, will care whether the video is actually factual. If Senator Udall goes on the win the election people on the right will be able to tell their supporters that Udall won because of voter fraud. Then they will be able to call into question all of the elections they did not win.