Conservative provocateur James O’Keefe, slayer of ACORN, is at it again, this time “exposing” voter fraud in Colorado in a new video released Wednesday.
The only problem? Two days before, Mother Jones published a story quoting Colorado Democrats who said that they had turned O’Keefe and his team away in their undercover bid to show Democrats hankering to falsify some votes in a state with one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.
Last week, according to the Democratic staffers who talked to Mother Jones, a man who said he was an LGBT activist came to a Boulder, Colo., office, asking if he should fill out ballots for other college students who had moved out of the state. (All registered Colorado voters received ballots in the mail this year). But he was told not to because it would be voter fraud, according to Mother Jones.
Then a few days later, the man returned to the office with another man who he introduced as a 45-year-old civics professor. Staffers identified O’Keefe as the “professor,” according to Mother Jones — and O’Keefe had tweeted a picture of himself in make-up.
Only time for 2-3 more election investigations. I went in Disguised as 45yo, this time people may lose their jobs pic.twitter.com/ihuTjpierm
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 20, 2014
Mother Jones spoke with a number of other Democratic staffers and aligned groups who said they had been approached by suspicious characters trying to commit voter fraud. O’Keefe was apparently not happy with the report, and he berated Mother Jones’ Washington editor, David Corn, on Twitter.
I can’t wait to get egg all over your undercover-Polk-award-winning face later this week, and prove, @DavidCornDC, you are a fraud.
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 21, 2014
On Wednesday, National Review Online published O’Keefe’s supposed video expose. In it, O’Keefe and his team purport to show outside liberal activists who didn’t balk when told that the undercover conservatives wanted to commit voter fraud in support of Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO).
There was no sign, though, of any of the incidents reported by Mother Jones where O’Keefe and company failed with their stings, and Corn quickly needled him for it.
Looks like @JamesOKeefeIII went hunting for big game engaged in fraud but found small fish saying stupid/wrong things http://t.co/301eB31zyb
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) October 22, 2014
.@JamesOKeefeIII You tried to get Dem staffers to OK voter fraud YOU proposed & they say they said no. Can you show us that video, please?
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) October 22, 2014
O’Keefe, for his part, seemed to think he had gotten that egg on Corn’s face.
“ if someone throws out the ballot, if you want to fill it out you should do it.” http://t.co/JEVPk8fqly Update your article, @DavidCornDC
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 22, 2014
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