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Conservative activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have agreed to pay $1 million to the New York attorney general’s office and others for running a voter suppression campaign targeting Black voters during the 2020 election.
As part of their voter suppression campaign in New York, Wohl and Burkman targeted Black voters in the state through robocalls “falsely claiming that voting by mail would cause the voter to be tracked for outstanding warrants, credit card debt, and mandatory vaccines,” James’ office said. An estimated 5,500 people received the calls.
Wohl and Burkman have previously faced penalties for running similar schemes elsewhere during the 2020 election. In 2022, an Ohio judge ordered the two men to spend 500 hours registering low- and middle-income voters in the Washington, DC, area after authorities in Ohio accused them of running a voter suppression campaign in multiple states.
And in 2021, the Federal Communications Commission proposed a record $5 million fine against them after an investigation found they appeared to have violated US robocalling laws.
Other criminal charges against Wohl and Burkman are pending in Michigan.
This is what the Republican party has been reduced to. When the Republican candidates lose, they claim election fraud. All the while practicing voter fraud themselves.
These hoaxers had previously been accused of recruiting a Michigan college student to claim falsely that Pete Buttigieg had raped him. The year before, they were involved in spreading false sexual assault allegations against Robert S. Mueller III
As part of their voter suppression campaign in New York, Wohl and Burkman targeted Black voters in the state through robocalls “falsely claiming that voting by mail would cause the voter to be tracked for outstanding warrants, credit card debt, and mandatory vaccines,” James’ office said. An estimated 5,500 people received the calls.
Wohl and Burkman have previously faced penalties for running similar schemes elsewhere during the 2020 election. In 2022, an Ohio judge ordered the two men to spend 500 hours registering low- and middle-income voters in the Washington, DC, area after authorities in Ohio accused them of running a voter suppression campaign in multiple states.
And in 2021, the Federal Communications Commission proposed a record $5 million fine against them after an investigation found they appeared to have violated US robocalling laws.
Other criminal charges against Wohl and Burkman are pending in Michigan.
This is what the Republican party has been reduced to. When the Republican candidates lose, they claim election fraud. All the while practicing voter fraud themselves.
These hoaxers had previously been accused of recruiting a Michigan college student to claim falsely that Pete Buttigieg had raped him. The year before, they were involved in spreading false sexual assault allegations against Robert S. Mueller III
