FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, January 27, 2021 Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference Stemming from Voter Disinformation Campaign
Defendant Unlawfully Used Social Media to Deprive Individuals of Their Right to Vote
A Florida man was arrested this morning on charges of conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election to use various social media platforms to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.
Douglass Mackey, aka Ricky Vaughn, 31, of West Palm Beach, was charged by criminal complaint in the Eastern District of New York. He was taken into custody this morning in West Palm Beach and made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart of the Southern District of Florida.
“According to the allegations in the complaint, the defendant exploited a social media platform to infringe one the of most basic and sacred rights guaranteed by the Constitution: the right to vote,” said Nicholas L. McQuaid, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “This complaint underscores the department’s commitment to investigating and prosecuting those who would undermine citizens’ voting rights.”
“There is no place in public discourse for lies and misinformation to defraud citizens of their right to vote,” said Seth D. DuCharme, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “With Mackey’s arrest, we serve notice that those who would subvert the democratic process in this manner cannot rely on the cloak of Internet anonymity to evade responsibility for their crimes. They will be investigated, caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
“Protecting every American citizen’s right to cast a legitimate vote is a key to the success of our republic,” said William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office. “What Mackey allegedly did to interfere with this process – by soliciting voters to cast their ballots via text – amounted to nothing short of vote theft. It is illegal behavior and contributes to the erosion of the public’s trust in our electoral processes. He may have been a powerful social media influencer at the time, but a quick Internet search of his name today will reveal an entirely different story.”
This is FRIGHTENING. THIS IS HAPPENING AS WE SPEAK.
Can someone find the meme? Clearly not election interference. They are on the offensive to find anything that diverts from THEIR election Fraud of 2020.
And law abiding people are now being crushed under their offensive. This is TYRANNY.
But I was told, in 2016, by the FBI, CIA, DHS, DOJ, ATF, NSA, Area 51, and the Coast Guard Reserve, that Russia "hacked" the Hilary Clinton campaign, and the DNC. And that is was very possibly likely that the Trump campaign, probably maybe, partnered with Vladimir Putin himself, to do the hacking.
And then I wasn't told, until after the 2018 elections, and after two and a half years of intense investigation, that they found absolutely nothing, and that it was all bullshit.
And then I didn't find out, until like a week ago, after the 2020 election, that everybody, at every level of government already knew that Trump had nothing to do with "colluding with Russia", and that they knew all accusations were made up by Hilary Clinton, for the sole purpose of influencing the election, by blatantly lying to the American people, about things they knew weren't true!
But, sure, arrest a humble meme maker, because some people are really fucking stupid.