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brooklynite

(94,517 posts)
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 07:40 PM Nov 2022

Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman must spend 500 hours registering voters

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Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A judge on Tuesday ordered Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, two right-wing conspiracy theorists behind robocalls that sought to intimidate Black voters here out of casting mail-in ballots in the 2020 presidential election, to spend 500 hours registering voters in low-income neighborhoods in the Washington, D.C., area.

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge John Sutula placed each on two years of probation, fined each $2,500 and ordered them to wear GPS ankle monitors with home confinement beginning at 8 p.m. each day for the first six months of their probation.

Sutula, 71, said that most of the civil rights advances in the United States have occurred in his lifetime. He compared the men’s effort to those who used violence to suppress southern Black voters in the 1960s.

“I think it’s a despicable thing that you guys have done,” he said.



Read more: https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2022/11/jacob-wohl-jack-burkman-must-spend-500-hours-registering-voters-as-penance-for-phony-robocalls-targeting-black-voters-in-cleveland.html
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Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman must spend 500 hours registering voters (Original Post) brooklynite Nov 2022 OP
i like this . AllaN01Bear Nov 2022 #1
Kudos to this judge Denver Guy Nov 2022 #2
duplicate thread of muriel_volestrangler Nov 2022 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Thunderbeast Nov 2022 #4
They better be closely monitored, like delinquent children Blue Owl Nov 2022 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Thunderbeast Nov 2022 #6
i don't trust these dorks near a voter registratiom rampartc Nov 2022 #7
Locking as a duplicate Yonnie3 Nov 2022 #8

AllaN01Bear

(18,191 posts)
1. i like this .
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 07:47 PM
Nov 2022

Denver Guy

(1 post)
2. Kudos to this judge
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 07:49 PM
Nov 2022

for both the sentence and the verbal dressing down.

Hopefully one or both will stick with these vermin, but unfortunately my hopes aren't set very high.

Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Blue Owl

(50,355 posts)
5. They better be closely monitored, like delinquent children
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 08:00 PM
Nov 2022

Response to Thunderbeast (Reply #4)

rampartc

(5,407 posts)
7. i don't trust these dorks near a voter registratiom
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 08:01 PM
Nov 2022

i'm sure they will game this.

Yonnie3

(17,434 posts)
8. Locking as a duplicate
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 08:01 PM
Nov 2022

Continue discussion at the earlier post https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143000681

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