"Investigators slam O’Keefe’s latest ‘political disinformation’"

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Investigators slam O’Keefe’s latest ‘political disinformation’

By Zachary Roth at MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/james-okeefe-political-disinformation

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A Texas judge has slapped down an effort by the controversial conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe to put obstacles in the way of a major voter registration drive in the state.

The judge dismissed a complaint that arose from an incendiary video made by O’Keefe’s organization, which purported to show illegal activity by Battleground Texas, a Democratic group that’s working to register Texans to vote. The judge acted after investigators derided the video as “little more than a canard and political disinformation.”

The news is a win for those looking to expand access to the ballot in the Lone Star State—and for state Sen. Wendy Davis, a Democratic candidate for governor there.

In the video, released in February to much fanfare on the right, a Battleground Texas organizer is surreptitiously recorded telling colleagues that the group has held onto phone numbers from voter registration forms that it gathered, and intends to contact people later this year to urge them to vote. O’Keefe claims in the video that this violates Texas election law, which bars registrars from recording phone numbers from voter registration forms. After the video provoked outrage among Texas Republicans, a court assigned two special prosecutors to probe the allegations against Battleground Texas.




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[Gothmog]

1. O'Keefe has become a joke

Battleground did a great job of debunking O'Keefe's claims a while back http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024569551 This report cites the same attorney general opinions issued by Greg Abbott that were cited by the attorneys for Battleground.

O'Keefe is a liar and a fraud. I love the fact that the right's favorite idiot attorney, Christian Adams, was so stupid that he believed that Battleground broke the law http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2014/02/19/new-okeefe-video-battleground-texas-violates-election-law-to-help-wendy-davis/ Christian Adams is an idiot who would never have been hired by the DOJ without illegal assistance from bushies. Christian Adams is a joke and has never been right on any issue.