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NO AMOUNT OF PIMP COSTUMES CAN HIDE JAMES O'KEEFE FROM... THE LAW (BUM, BUM, BUMMMMMM) - TPM: "It was one of the few -- if not the only -- coordinated efforts to attempt in-person voter fraud, and it was pulled off by affiliates of conservative activist James O'Keefe at polling places in New Hampshire Tuesday night. All of it part of an attempt to prove the need for voter ID laws that voting rights experts say have a unfair impact on minority voters. Now election law experts tell TPM that O'Keefe's allies could face criminal charges on both the federal and state level for procuring ballots under false names, and that his undercover sting doesn't demonstrate a need for voter ID laws at all. Federal law bans not only the casting of, but the 'procurement' of ballots 'that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held.'" [TPM]
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)but it only seems to implicate his associates, he may not get charged at all.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Any agreement to commit a crime combined with an overt act in furtherance of the crime, constitutes a conspiracy and is chargeable under the same penalty as the crime itself.
If you drive the robber to the bank, as part of the scheme to rob the bank, you are a bank robber.
alfredo
(60,065 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)Anyone who agreed to a scheme to commit a crime, and then performed an intentional act in furtherance of the crime is a conspirator.
This is why you don't go to a gun store and say, "I would like to buy a gun to kill my pesky neighbor." They won't sell you the gun.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Oldtimeralso
(1,935 posts)Even if they were not allowed to vote, they conspired to violate federal law. Isn't he already on probation?
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)He skates every time. IOKIYAR.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)At the very least, I'ld like to see O'Keefe test this theory.
NBachers
(17,001 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,635 posts)n/t
suffragette
(12,232 posts)pg 2, Standard Conditions of Supervision
9) the defendant shall not associate with any persons engaged in criminal activity
FSogol
(45,356 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)Would love this to reach the level of identifying all of his and his associates financial backers are.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)gkhouston
(21,642 posts)handle the overwhelming "voter fraud crisis"?