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Widow Unnerved By James O'Keefe Voter Fraud Stunt

Ryan J. Reilly | May 16, 2012, 4:30PM

"If he were my son I would spank him."

That's how the widow of a North Carolina man whose name was presented at a polling station by an activist working with James O'Keefe's Project Veritas responded to a video the group released this week showing an individual using her deceased husband's name.

As Media Matters points out, Michael Bolton, Jr. -- a very much alive son of the widow who spoke to TPM -- is registered to vote at the same address as his recently deceased father. The poll watcher in the extended version of the O'Keefe video asks if he was the junior Bolton to which the Project Veritas operative responds: "That would be correct."

"I don't like the way they just felt that they could use my husband's name and put it out there," the widow told TPM. "It just wasn't right. My husband just died, and then they do that? Why didn't they use somebody from a year ago or five years ago. It was just very insensitive."

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Topics: North Carolina, Project Veritas, Voter Identification, Voter suppression, Voting, voter fraud

Voting Rights Act

The Voting Wars Could Get Bloody

Ryan J. Reilly | March 19, 2012, 4:56AM

The key electoral battle in 2012 might be less about who you cast a ballot for, than about whether you get to cast a ballot at all.

Yes, the voting wars are heating up just in time for the 2012 elections. And between the Justice Department's opposition to voter ID laws in two states and several other state and federal cases brought against such laws by various civil rights organizations, the battles are only just beginning.

The Justice Department has already blocked restrictive voting laws in South Carolina, Florida and Texas, and state suits in response may see the Supreme Court take up a direct challenge to the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act this year.

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Topics: ACLU, Ballots, Eric Holder, James O'Keefe, Justice Department, Project Veritas, South Carolina, Texas, Voting, Voting Rights Act, Wisconsin

James O'Keefe

'Dead' Voter Talking: O'Keefe Voter Fraud Stunt Confused 23-Year-Old For Dead 84-Year-Old

Ryan J. Reilly | January 14, 2012, 2:25PM

Robert William Beaulieu is 23-years-old, lives in Nashua, New Hampshire, and is a registered Democrat. He's also very much not dead.

But you wouldn't have known that if you watched the lastest undercover sting video from James O'Keefe's Project Veritas, which featured a man with an Irish accent attempting to obtain a ballot on behalf of a Robert Beaulieu who lives on Cassandra Lane.

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Topics: James O'Keefe, New Hampshire, Project Veritas, Robert William Beaulieu, Voter Identification, Voting, Voting Rights Act, voter fraud

James O'Keefe

James O'Keefe Says $50K Donation Funded Voter Fraud Stunt

Ryan J. Reilly | January 12, 2012, 1:46PM

An "extremely generous donor" gave $50,000 to James O'Keefe's Project Veritas to fund their voter fraud stunt in New Hampshire on Tuesday, the conservative activist said in a email to supporters.

"Our Voter Fraud investigation is being funded with a gift of $50,000 from an extremely generous donor -- but that covers the cost of just ONE national project," O'Keefe wrote in a fundraising email.

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Topics: James O'Keefe, New Hampshire, Project Veritas, Voter Identification, Voting, Voting Rights Act, voter fraud

James O'Keefe

James O'Keefe's Latest 'Terrorist' Medicaid Sting Goes After Woman For Following Law

Ryan J. Reilly | July 20, 2011, 6:00AM

Stop me if you've heard this one. A man goes into a public assistance office in Charleston, South Carolina in a kilt, tells them he's a member of the Irish Republican Army and asks for help for 25 fellow Irishmen in a hospital who need Medicaid.

A government employee follows the rules and explains the process for filling out a Medicaid paperwork and the qualifications they'd need to meet. She informs them that a federal law intended to protect patient privacy requires her not to divulge any information he's told her.

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Topics: James O'Keefe, Project Veritas

James O'Keefe

James O'Keefe: I've Got Evidence Public Employees Helped Fake Terrorists, Drug Smugglers

Ryan J. Reilly | July 13, 2011, 6:06PM

Conservative Activist James O'Keefe

Conservative provocateur James O'Keefe has his digital alms bowl out. He says his non-profit group "needs $30,000 RIGHT AWAY" to finish his latest sting operation that he claims "dwarfs anything Project Veritas has exposed to date."

His attacks on ACORN, Planned Parenthood, CNN, and NPR had varying degrees of success in taking down their targets or coming up with evidence to back his rhetoric. So who's next on his list? Government employees.

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Topics: James O'Keefe, Project Veritas

James O'Keefe

James O'Keefe's Group Gets Non-Profit Status, Took In Only $2,367 In 2010

Ryan J. Reilly | May 27, 2011, 11:50AM

James O'Keefe

The Internal Revenue Service has granted James O'Keefe's group Project Veritas non-profit status, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reports.

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Topics: James O'Keefe, Project Veritas

James O'Keefe

O'Keefe Hits Up Supporters For Cash, Mingles With D.C. Conservatives

Ryan J. Reilly | April 5, 2011, 8:35AM

James O'Keefe

Conservative provocateur James O'Keefe, who asked supporters for donations a few weeks back to help him and his friends pay off the major credit card debt they racked up when they targeted National Public Radio, is hitting up his email list one again.