In Brooklyn, of course!
[Epoch Times] Douglass Mackey, also known as ‘Ricky Vaughn,’ was on trial for a charge of allegedly conspiring against people’s right to vote with memes—or generally satirical online images—including one depicting an African American woman standing in front of an "African Americans for Hillary" sign. The meme instructed people to vote by text during the 2016 presidential election.
"On or about and before Election Day 2016, at least 4,900 unique telephone numbers texted ’Hillary’ or some derivative to the 59925 text number, which had been used in multiple deceptive campaign images tweeted by Mackey and his co-conspirators," reads the DOJ’s Friday statement.
Expressing their God-given right to vote by text message.
The Department of Justice (DOJ), based on that meme and records of online discussions between Mackey and his peers, charged Mackey with conspiring against the right to vote. Although a material injury—in this case, people’s right to vote being taken away—is not required to establish the conspiracy charge, the government said during the trial that people’s votes were "vaporized" by Mackey’s "digital flyers."
Authorities arrested Mackey in January 2021 on that allegation,
...the Biden team hitting the ground running... | and a grand jury indicted him within two weeks of his arrest.
A fair and speedy trial....
Mackey will be sentenced on Aug. 16, 2023, and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
That'll teach him not to be satirical!
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