The same Justice Department that threw a pro-Trump memesmith in prison for “election misinformation” is currently nowhere to be found after a left-wing group sent false election information to untold numbers of swing state voters.
In late October, Pennsylvania voters (many of whom hadn’t voted yet) received a text saying “Records show you voted. Find where to vote early by on-demand mail ballot.”(RELATED: Stream Daily Caller’s Original Documentary ‘RIGGED: Death Of The American Voter’)
Shortly after, they received another text reading “Apologies for the previous text, which was sent in error. If you have not voted yet, find out where to vote early by on-demand mail ballot.”
Both messages were signed “-AllVote”
AllVote claimed they did not intend to mislead voters, however others, like meme-maker Douglass Mackey, have been sentenced to jail time for “election interference” over similar incidents.
A spokesperson for AllVote, left-wing transgender activist Charlotte – formerly Charles – Clymer, claimed the message was a mistake.
“We are mortified by this mistake and the confusion it has caused,” Clymer said in a statement.
An AllVote spokesperson told The Washington Free Beacon the text messages only went to progressive voters, however, the Daily Caller confirmed with multiple registered Republicans and independent/unaffiliated voters in Pennsylvania and North Carolina that they had received the texts.
The DOJ has not prosecuted or made a statement on AllVote, though at least one state official raised a red flag. A government official in New Mexico said the texts are “something that the feds really need to look at and crack down on.”
The Caller reached out to the Eastern District of New York U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, but has not heard back at the time of publication. The DOJ declined to comment.
None of the attorneys general in swing states where voters received the texts have publicly commented. Voters in Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Wisconsin all received similar texts from AllVote, according to CNN.
The Caller reached out to their secretary of state offices but has not heard back at the time of publication.
Their silence contrasts sharply to the federal government’s efforts to punish Mackey.
Mackey was arrested by the FBI in Florida in 2021 for allegedly conspiring to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York announced on Jan. 27, 2021, that a “social media influencer” had been charged with “[disseminating] misinformation designed to deprive” people of their constitutionally protected right to vote. (RELATED: Biden DOJ Charges Pro-Trump Twitter Troll Over Posts Ahead Of 2016 Election)
“Mackey has been found guilty by a jury of his peers of attempting to deprive individuals from exercising their sacred right to vote for the candidate of their choice in the 2016 Presidential Election,” stated United States Attorney Breon Peace. https://t.co/JYht3grv2t
— US Attorney EDNY (@EDNYnews) March 31, 2023
Mackey was convicted of “election interference” and sentenced to seven months in prison last year. Mackey, under the account “Ricky Vaughn,” posted a fake ad instructing Hillary supporters to vote by text.
The DOJ “tried very hard and spent millions of dollars” to try to find someone who failed to vote as a result of Mackey’s meme, James Lawrence, a partner with Envisage Law who represented Mackey, told the Caller.
The DOJ’s efforts extended “even to the point of subpoenaing the phone companies, getting the phone numbers that texted the number back in 2016 and going to the house of those people who got follow-up interviews,” Lawrence said.
“So first of all, it’s just a joke,” Mackey told the Caller. “I mean, people, I think my audience is going to find this funny. It’s also provocative in the sense that the other side or journalists could be offended by it and take it the wrong way.”
Mackey’s post included a photo of a black woman in front of an “African-Americans for Hillary” sign. The image included text saying: “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925,” and “Vote for Hillary and be a part of History.”
He subsequently tweeted an ad written in Spanish with an image of a woman typing into her cell phone, according to the DOJ. It included the Clinton Campaign’s logo and the slogan #ImWithHer. (RELATED: Anti-Hillary Election ‘Meme’ Case Could Open The Floodgates To More Gov’t Censorship, Legal Experts Warn)
Mackey got the images from 4chan, he told the Caller, and testified that he did not believe anyone would fall for them, according to his opening brief.
While Mackey stands alone in his prosecution, he does not appear to be the only person to suggest people could vote by phone.
On Nov. 8, 2016, left-wing influencer Kristina Wong posted a video with Trump signs in the background and posted the following message:
Hey 🇺🇸Trump Supporters🇺🇸! Skip poll lines at #Election2016 and TEXT in your vote! Text votes are legit. Or vote tomorrow on Super Wednesday! pic.twitter.com/ES34HV0yad
— Kristina Wong 🍆 (@mskristinawong) November 8, 2016
Wong was not charged, and her post is still online. Jimmy Kimmel recently made a similar joke where he advised Trump supporters to “vote late,” leading many to note the political nature of Mackey’s charges.
Charles Clymer sent out his texts to thousands of actual voters.
Jimmy Kimmel told his joke to an audience of millions.
The joke meme I sent out didn’t even reach more than 100 people until Buzzfeed and Wired reported on it. https://t.co/uAMI9saL2i
— Douglass Mackey (@DougMackeyCase) October 31, 2024
The Biden Administration sent Douglass Mackey to prison for making this exact joke. I’m dead serious when I say if Trump wins he should have Jimmy Kimmel arrested and jailed. Force these scumbags to live by their own rules. https://t.co/SMHtwwBlAQ
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 31, 2024
What’s striking to me is that Jimmy Kimmel has clearly never heard of Douglas Mackey or what the DOJ did to him. He’s completely unaware because mainstream media never reported it.
Kimmel will wake up likely still unaware and unbothered by the justice department https://t.co/EqXmXmqKOj
— Corey Inganamort 🪚🌴🪚 (@TheBirdWords) October 31, 2024
AllVote maintains their texts were an accident, but Mackey argued that if his prosecution went to the lengths they did to prove his intent, they should apply the same standard to AllVote’s case.
“Let me point out that the DOJ subpoenaed all my bank accounts, all my financial records, my employment history, my rent history, and all my direct messages to see if I had a criminal intent,” Mackey told the Caller.
“So this guy, Charles Clymer, he says that it was just an innocent mistake. ‘We did a typo,’ whatever. Well, by the same standard, the DOJ should be subpoenaing all his emails, all of his communications, his entire super PAC, all the records and internal communication to see if he had a criminal intent when he posted the meme by the same standard of justice, right?”
AllVote is accused of having Democratic funding sources. While the group appears to go to great lengths to conceal their funding, a Free Beacon investigation found their legal disclaimer was hosted by Rapid Resist Action, a group founded in 2017 by former Obama administration official Yoni Landau.
Rapid Resist Action counts among its donors Democratic billionaire Reid Hoffman, who donated $484,000 to them through his nonprofit American Future Republic in 2022, the Free Beacon found. (Stream the Daily Caller’s Documentary Rigged HERE)
“The evidence indicates that AllVote, is tied to a group called Rapid Resist Action, whose largest donor is Democrat megadonor Reid Hoffman,” the Capital Research Center’s Parker Thayer told the Caller. “Any group backed by Hoffman, who is notorious for funding left-wing political skullduggery and dirty tricks, should not be afforded the benefit of the doubt when it comes to allegations of voter suppression and misinformation.”
Hoffman, a known associate of deceased convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into pro-Democratic party and anti-Trump organizations throughout the years.
He’s previously been linked to left-wing disinformation campaigns, most notably a 2018 effort to help Democrat Doug Jones defeat Republican Roy Moore in the race for Alabama’s open US Senate seat.
“AllVote’s misleading text messages are another sign of the Left’s total desperation as election day looms. This cycle has seen left-leaning groups use underhanded tactics at an unprecedented level,” Thayer told the Caller.
“Groups have sent threatening mailers implying they will send people’s voting history to their neighbors, created websites advertising the ability people to stalk an ex-boyfriend’s voting history, and secretly filtered digital voter registration ads so that they’re not shown to swing state residents who enjoy things like NASCAR, the PGA Tour, and Duck Dynasty. AllVote’s text messages are just the cherry on top.”
While federal law enforcement has not targeted AllVote, Biden-Harris’s DOJ weaponized a KKK-era law to target Mackey.
Mackey was charged under the Conspiracy Against Rights statute, according to the DOJ. The statute is a Reconstruction-era law designed to protect the voting rights of recently enfranchised black voters, the Daily Caller previously reported.
Under the Biden-Harris administration, it has been weaponized against pro-life protesters, former President Trump, and now Douglass Mackey. (RELATED: Biden-Harris DOJ Weaponizes Hundred-Year-Old Anti-KKK Law Against Conservatives)
Six pro-life Christians now face 11 years in prison over this “conspiracy against civil rights”
Yes, you read the right. The Biden DOJ is trying to imprison them for 11 for this: pic.twitter.com/KKVYoLEi5d
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 30, 2024
“It’s been used in Douglass’s case to go after speech online – speech online that didn’t cause a single person not to vote in the 2016 election, as far as what the government put on as evidence,” he said.
Mackey’s legal team argued the statute does not criminalize “political misinformation,” noting it is an entirely new method of prosecution, according to court documents. Lawrence agreed and emphasized the law has never been used to prosecute people for “engaging in pure speech” – until Mackey’s case. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Data Confirms Conservative Fears Biden Weaponized Justice System)
The government’s key witness in the trial was an online troll known as “Microchip” who pleaded guilty to violating the conspiracy charge, according to legal documents. He initially denied there was a “grand plan” to prevent people from voting and informed the FBI his own tweets were jokes.
Direct violation of 18 U.S. Code § 241 – Conspiracy against rights
Far greater than Doug Mackey posting memes on X
Which one was charged? https://t.co/8jtwB0r7bu
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 24, 2024
“He told [the FBI], there’s no grand conspiracy,” Mackey said. “It was just shit posting. He told them that it was just trying to cause chaos that caused the media to freak out, the Democrats to freak out. They kept interviewing him and twisted, essentially twisted his arm so that he would testify at my trial, and he just said exactly what they wanted him to say.”
“The Department of Justice breathes new life into a statute that’s been on the books for close to 150 years to prosecute Douglass Mackey and then they call that our democracy,” Lawrence told the Caller.