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Douglass Mackey,31,who the feds say went by the Twitter name Ricky Vaughan,was a prominent anti-Semite,racist and Trump-booster online before the 2016 election,the Huffington Post reported.
Mackey was followed by tens of thousands on Twitter and used his online platform to promote lies in the months leading up to the election in an effort to confuse voters.
Between September and November 2016,Mackey conspired with others to fool social media users into casting their ballots online for Hillary Clinton,a law enforcement source said.
The goal was to suppress the actual vote for Clinton in an effort to get Trump elected,federal authorities said.
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“Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” he tweeted on November 1 along with a photo of a black woman standing in front of an “African Americans for Hillary” sign.
The Tweet had fine print at the bottom that read,“Must be 18 or older to vote. One vote per person. Must be a legal citizen of the United States. Voting by text not available in Guam,Puerto Rico,Alaska or Hawaii. Paid for by Hillary for President 2016.“
The scheme worked on more than a few potential Clinton voters,with 4900 texting her name to the phone number Mackey put online,the feds said.