NH Republican Mayor: 'Arrest and Prosecute' O'Keefe and Fellow 'Voter Fraud' Conspirators!

[Scuba]

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9060

After James O'Keefe's latest video, released yesterday, featured individuals committing voter fraud during Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, two prominent Granite State officials are calling for their arrest and prosecution. Ted Gatsas, the Republican Mayor of Manchester, told the New Hampshire Union Leader, "They should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

Similarly, Nashua City Clerk Paul Bergeron told ThinkProgress by phone that what these individuals did "is a crime, regardless of what the intent might be. What they did was wrong." Bergeron said he hopes the case gets prosecuted because it "appears to be a violation of the state's wiretapping code for one thing, which is a Class B felony in New Hampshire, in addition to a possible violation election fraud."

TPM reports tonight that others are now piling on, furious at O'Keefe and calling for accountability. Moreover, as TPM's Ryan Reilly notes,

O'Keefe's latest fund-raising plea touts that he received $50,000 from an unnamed "extremely generous funder," to create this two-bit "voter fraud" scam, and now he's asking for more to help float further projects and line his own pockets. As his ironically-named Project Veritias has somehow been approved as a tax-exempt, "non-partisan," non-profit 501(c)3, he'll have to disclose who that "generous" funder is eventually though it'll take a while. (Anybody wanna place some guesses what that is in the meantime? There are plenty of suspects here!) In the meantime, O'Keefe previously disclosed on his application for tax-exempt, non-profit status that his salary is scheduled at $120,000/year for heading the propaganda outfit.

Don't miss the comments from Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting who points out one would have to get 2,470 "dead people votes" to impact the Republican primary by even 1%.

[center rising]

1. O'Keefe will walk, wait and see!!

Love to see his ass in jail, but it will probably never happen.

[think]

4. K&R For O'Keefe now pissing off Republicans. Bout time!

[surfdog]

12. And if he does walk

Then the police are effectively giving a green light to Street justice

[rfranklin]

2. I would contribute to a legal fund for O'Keefe...

paying the lawyer fees to have him convicted and incarcerated.

[leftyohiolib]

7. IOKIYAR

[Jackpine Radical]

3. My vote for most likely source goes to………

Bob Parry of Swiftboat & Scott Walker financing fame.

[Scuba]

5. Not a bad guess. I'll go way out on a limb and say it's someone with ties to ALEC.

[Jackpine Radical]

10. Jeez, I never knew you were such a risk-taker in your gambling.

Got any big money riding on bets with Romney?

[randr]

6. If O'Keefe gets away with this latest charade he will have proven the system

is broken. If he is prosecuted for his actions, he will have proven the system is safe.

[Jackpine Radical]

11. Not hardly.

If the "system" weren't broken, he couldn't have gotten away with killing Acorn, & he would be doing time for his stunts in Landrieu's offices.

[HopeHoops]

8. And when is Symantec going to send the cease and desist order on the use of the name?

They've owned it for seven or so years and it dates back to the late 80's when Tolerant changed the name of the company.

[sdfernando]

15. I believe that the Symantec product is called Veritas

not Veritias.

[HopeHoops]

16. It is. I misread it in the OP.

I suspect it is intended to have the same meaning (although not a legitimate spelling).

[Sheepshank]

9. Part of the reason people DON'T commit voter fraud are the penalties.

If they don't prosecute O'Keefe et al, then they have removed some of the incentive to avoid fraud. So it really does nullify his little experiment

[Uncle Joe]

13. They should arrest and prosecute O'Keefe to send a message that voter fraud despite

it being a microscopic size problem won't be tolerated.

Thanks for the thread, Scuba.

[Bluerthanblue]

14. It's been a couple of weeks since this was written. I haven't

heard much about it since.

Here's hoping that the renewed interest means it's picking up steam.

Thanks for posting this.