The US state of New York has filed a request to join a court case against two conspiracy theorists who flooded the state with robotic telephone messages warning African-Americans that personal information from mailed ballots would be shared with police and other government agencies, state Attorney General Letitia James said on Thursday
WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 06th May, 2021) The US state of New York has filed a request to join a court case against two conspiracy theorists who flooded the state with robotic telephone messages warning African-Americans that personal information from mailed ballots would be shared with police and other government agencies, state Attorney General Letitia James said on Thursday.
"Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, while hiding behind their sham organization "Project 1599," violated state and Federal laws by orchestrating robocalls to threaten and harass Black communities through disinformation, including claims that mail-in voters would have their personal information disseminated to law enforcement, debt collectors, and the government," James said in a press release.
The campaign reached about 5,500 voters in New Yorker state in an attempt to interfere with efforts to administer the 2020 elections during the COVID-19 crisis and protect citizens from voter intimidation and harassment, the release said.
New York seeks to join an existing lawsuit filed by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights on behalf of voters and the National Coalition on Black Civic Protection against Wohl, Burkman, Project 1599 and Burkman's lobbying firm J. M. Burkman & Associates, the release added.
The lawsuit seeks to prohibit the defendants from future voter intimidation campaigns, and to impose fines of up to $500 for each violation of New York State laws protecting citizens from discrimination, according to the release.
