Stop defending this guy. He produced campaign materials that were fraudulently attributed to a candidate for the explicit purpose of tricking American citizens into believing they had already voted. That is a crime even if you call it a meme. You'd have an argument if the false attribution was something self-evidently intended as a wink to the audience proving that it's not serious, like "Paid for by Giant Meteor For President 2020," but the complaint and affidavit has quotes from the accused stating that the intent was to produce believable, fraudulent campaign materials.
The whole point of elections is to trick people into voting a certain way, so I don't particularly care if this guy was trying to get people to vote a certain way (or not at all).
The point of campaigning is to convince people to vote a certain way. That does not mean anything goes. Falsifying the attribution is no different than forging a signature.
Stop defending this guy. He produced campaign materials that were fraudulently attributed to a candidate for the explicit purpose of tricking American citizens into believing they had already voted. That is a crime even if you call it a meme. You'd have an argument if the false attribution was something self-evidently intended as a wink to the audience proving that it's not serious, like "Paid for by Giant Meteor For President 2020," but the complaint and affidavit has quotes from the accused stating that the intent was to produce believable, fraudulent campaign materials.
The whole point of elections is to trick people into voting a certain way, so I don't particularly care if this guy was trying to get people to vote a certain way (or not at all).
The point of campaigning is to convince people to vote a certain way. That does not mean anything goes. Falsifying the attribution is no different than forging a signature.
Sure it is: if you forge a signature the FBI doesn't arrest you.
The only part where I have any objection is the fact that he didn't remove the fine print about the meme being part of the Clinton Campaign.
Other than that, you're fucking retarded if you think you can just text a vote. Also, call up the fucking elections board if you have a question.
Thats not at all what he did, dumbass.
Go play in traffic.