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April 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
WASHINGTON — Voters in the District of Columbia went to the polls last week to choose presidential and local candidates in party primaries.
But at one Northwest D.C. polling precinct, a man from the conservative activist group Project Veritas came armed with a hidden camera as part of an effort to “lampoon the mostly Democratic opposition to ‘voter ID’ laws” around the country, according to The Washington Post.
Project Vertias, led by conservative provocateur filmmaker James O’Keefe, targeted Attorney General Eric Holder’s precinct during the hidden-camera action.
In a video, a man is shown checking into a polling station as “Eric Holder” and asked whether he needed to show identification. When the poll worker tells the man he doesn’t need ID, he says he would feel more comfortable checking in with ID. The man leaves without checking in, saying he’s going to his car to get it.
Holder is 61 years old and an African-American; he bears no resemblance to the young white man who was able to obtain his ballot.
The group produced a similar video during January’s New Hampshire primary as a way to show how vulnerable elections can be without voter verification.
Holder has been skewered by conservative activists for downplaying the risk of voter fraud.
The Justice Department issued a statement about the new Project Veritas video stunt, according to TPM.
“It’s no coincidence that these so-called examples of rampant voter fraud consistently turn out to be manufactured ones,” according to the department.
The question is whether anyone should really care. Yes, if you wanted to, you could risk five years in prison and a $10,000 fine to vote for someone else, but we’re not sure why you would, since a single vote, or even a few votes, will never make a difference. (Okay, almost never.) Could a group of hundreds or thousands of fraudsters be mobilized to go around to different polling stations on election day and vote for one particular candidate or issue, possibly altering the outcome of an election? It would be difficult to organize surreptitiously, but sure, it’s probably doable. But it has never happened.
According to the New Yorker, “it shows just how limited O’Keefe’s talents are, and how un-ambitious is the vision espoused by the right’s new investigative journalists and those who publish them.”
According to the Post:
Under D.C. law, persons found guilty of making “any false representations” as to their eligibility to vote are subject to fines up to $10,000 and up to five years in prison. If the fraud is committed during an election where the presidency or congressional offices are on the ballot, it can also be prosecuted under federal law, which contains the same penalties.
Also on HuffPost:
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