BUSTED: GOP legislative aide fired for running fake news site that hyped bogus 'voter fraud' stories
Source: RawStory
BRAD REED
19 JAN 2017 AT 07:10 ET
A Republican legislative aide in Maryland has been fired after it was revealed that he ran a fake news website that hyped false stories about voter fraud.
The Washington Post reports that Maryland Del. David E. Vogt III immediately fired legislative aide Cameron Harris after learning that he created an article at the website ChristianTimesNewspaper.com that purportedly revealed that Hillary Clintons campaign was committing massive voter fraud in Ohio.
I was shocked to hear that he could do such a thing, Vogt said after Harriss dismissal. He seemed like a bright young man that was interested in getting involved in politics.
Harriss article fabricated claims that election officials had discovered tens of thousands of fraudulent Clinton votes being stored in an Ohio warehouse. As the New York Times reported earlier this week, that article was shared on Facebook more than 6 million times, despite the fact that it had no basis in reality.
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Whiskeytide
(4,462 posts)... his job?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Botany
(70,581 posts)2 things:
1) Was Russian money behind this fake news about voter fraud?
2) How quickly will Mr. Harris be rehired about another republican operation?
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)&p=DevEx,5032.1
James48
(4,440 posts)SHOCKED I tell you- to learn that there was GAMBLING going on....
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)More fake news stories at their facebook site which I suspect will be taken down soon.
https://www.facebook.com/christiantimesnewspaper/
Not surprising the link about "voter fraud" in NC governor's race no longer works.
http://christiantimesnewspaper.com/breaking-massive-voter-fraud-exposed-in-nc-governors-race/
Botany
(70,581 posts)Christian Times Newspaper's report described the above-displayed photograph as showing "Randall Prince" with his discovery of pre-marked Clinton ballots, but this picture was actually taken in 2015 in Birmingham, England, and simply captures a man unloading a truck of ballot boxes at a polling station. It appears that CTN altered the photograph (removing "Ballot Box" from some of the boxes and reversing the image) in an apparent attempt to make it difficult to find the original picture:
http://www.snopes.com/clinton-votes-found-in-warehouse/