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Conservative Social Media Influencer Douglass Mackey Convicted of Election Interference

Alana Mastrangelo 31 Mar 2023

Conservative social media influencer Douglass Mackey, also known as Ricky Vaughn, was convicted of election interference in the 2016 presidential race after posting a satirical meme on Twitter.

Mackey, who is being accused of trying to “deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote,” was convicted on Friday by a federal jury in Brooklyn of the charge of “Conspiracy Against Rights,” the federal government announced.


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The conservative meme maker is now facing a maximum of 10 years in prison.

“Mackey has been found guilty by a jury of his peers of attempting to deprive individuals from exercising their sacred right to vote for the candidate of their choice in the 2016 Presidential Election,” United States Attorney Breon Peace said on Friday.

“Today’s verdict proves that the defendant’s fraudulent actions crossed a line into criminality and flatly rejects his cynical attempt to use the constitutional right of free speech as a shield for his scheme to subvert the ballot box and suppress the vote,” Peace added.

In 2016, Mackey’s Twitter account under the name Ricky Vaughn had roughly 58,000 followers. He posted satirical memes telling people they could vote for a candidate (apparently Hillary Clinton) via text message.

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BREAKING: NYC jury finds Douglass Mackey GUILTY in first-ever meme trial after making memes that disparaged Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election
The Post Millennial, Mar 31, 2023

Douglass Mackey, also known as Ricky Vaughn on Twitter, has been found guilty on charges of election interference by a federal court in the Eastern District of New York.

The charges stem from a meme Mackey posted on Twitter in 2016, jokingly encouraging supporters of Hillary Clinton to vote by text

The Department of Justice alleged that this constituted election interference, despite being unable to provide evidence that anyone was deceived by the meme. Mackey argued that he was simply trying to create a viral meme, and that other Clinton supporters had posted similar memes encouraging Trump supporters to vote by text without consequence.

An expert witness for the defense withdrew from the trial after being contacted by a reporter from the SPLC.

Federal prosecutors claimed that Mackey worked with fellow meme makers to create the Twitter posts and make them as real as possible.

"This wasn’t about changing votes. This was about vaporizing votes, making them disappear," said Assistant US Attorney Turner Buford.

"The number was real and set up to receive incoming messages," he explained. "The release of these fake campaign ads was timed to flood the internet before Election Day."

Mackey posted the memes on November 1, a week before the election, and Frisch said that the meme’s message was "ludicrous to anyone with a basic knowledge of how presidential elections work," the New York Daily Mail reported.


https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-nyc-jury-finds-douglass-mackey-guilty-in-first-ever-meme-trial-after-making-memes-that-disparaged-hillary-clinton-in-the-2016-election

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BREAKING: Douglass Mackey to APPEAL verdict to US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
A NYC court found him guilty of making memes disparaging Hillary supporters
The Biden Admin wants to jail him for up to 10 years
Legal fund -> http://MemeDefenseFund.com
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Sharing memes is election interference but arresting the opposition's lead candidate is not election interference

5:32 PM · Mar 31, 2023

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NYC jury finds the First Amendment to be null and void.
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Douglass Mackey was just found guilty of a federal crime he was charged with by the DOJ for tweeting the meme on the left during the 2016 election.

The lady on the right has never been arrested for her tweet that also came during the 2016 election.

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This verdict is chilling for speech online. Mackey’s only crime was making a meme that *may* have fooled some Hillary voters. For that crime the Biden DOJ brought charges against him their first week in office and have set a horrifying precedent for the future
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The verdict is in: Douglass Mackey has been found guilty.
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If someone is so f**king completely stupid they think they can vote by text, they deserve to lose their franchise
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Pro-Trump Twitter influencer found guilty of conspiracy against rights over 2016 memes

Brady Knox  |  March 31, 2023  |  07:11 PM


A pro-Trump Twitter influencer was found guilty of election interference for memes shared around the 2016 presidential election.

Douglass Mackey, 33, better known by his online handle Ricky Vaughn, was found guilty of conspiracy against rights in a Brooklyn court for his creation and sharing of memes. Prosecutors argued the memes were intended to "deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote," a press release from the New York Eastern District U.S. Attorney's Office said.  .  .

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There is no constitutional right to vote.  It doesn't exist.  And there was not one single witness to testify that they were denied their right to vote.  Not a single one.  This decision is straight out of a Nazi or Soviet court.
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facebook busted me for posting this...a very short SENTENCE but nonetheless......

this only proves that there are a lot of stupid people on both sides of the aisle



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Pro-Trump Twitter influencer found guilty of conspiracy against rights over 2016 memes

Brady Knox  |  March 31, 2023  |  07:11 PM


A pro-Trump Twitter influencer was found guilty of election interference for memes shared around the 2016 presidential election.

Douglass Mackey, 33, better known by his online handle Ricky Vaughn, was found guilty of conspiracy against rights in a Brooklyn court for his creation and sharing of memes. Prosecutors argued the memes were intended to "deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote," a press release from the New York Eastern District U.S. Attorney's Office said.  .  .

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/twitter-influencer-guilty-election-interference-memes



There is no constitutional right to vote.  It doesn't exist.  And there was not one single witness to testify that they were denied their right to vote.  Not a single one.  This decision is straight out of a Nazi or Soviet court.

To make matters worse, if that's possible, the prosecution could not present one shred of evidence that anyone was harmed by this meme.....that one soul didn't cast his or her vote properly because of it.

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"Today, posting Memes on the internet officially became criminal in The United States of America.". (Carlson video)


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I'm rather surpised that im not behind bars in fifty states by now



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again the complains  could easily have come form both so called  "sides of he aisle" given the length of time of been lampooning these  bozoz


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So a guy posting memes is “criminal election interference” but Maricopa shutting down voting machines in 60% of locations on election day is just a “technical error”?

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To make matters worse, if that's possible, the prosecution could not present one shred of evidence that anyone was harmed by this meme.....that one soul didn't cast his or her vote properly because of it.

In other words, he didn't have standing.
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IMHO, this is an indictment of just how stupid Democrats think their voters are. Nothing more, nothing less.

And without proof that anyone was misled by an obvious joke, this conviction is a travesty.
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Breaking: Doug Mackey officially kicks off his appeal in the Hillary Clinton "meme" case
 
DOUG MACKEY  |  JAN 6, 2024


On Friday, January 5th, my legal team and I officially filed my appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

You can download and read the entire appeal here (see below the break for highlights from the brief):  https://douglassmackey.substack.com/api/v1/file/957fc2b9-98ae-427f-9611-0c70d5fbeea9.pdf

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