Conservative activist releases hidden-camera video appearing to show bad voting advice
James O'Keefe is at it again with a hidden-camera video calling into question the integrity of North Carolina elections for the second time in as many years. And state Republicans are asking the state Board of Elections to investigate.
Thursday, the conservative, gotcha-videographer and best-selling author put out a video appearing to show mostly Democratic campaign workers in Charlotte giving bad, and allegedly illegal advice, to a woman who claimed to be an illegal immigrant.
She was a plant. She told the campaign workers that she was undocumented but somehow managed to get registered to vote. On the video, she asks them what do and about six workers tell her she can vote if she's registered.
You can't vote if you're not a U.S. Citizen and, according to North Carolina law, you can't advise a non-citizen to vote. O'Keefe says the campaign workers violated that law, a Class I felony.
One of the candidates with a campaign worker featured in the video called it trickery. The only Republican in the O'Keefe video, Chris Hailey who's running for Mecklenburg County Sheriff, says his staff and volunteers shouldn't have to know election law in that kind of detail and says it should be a question for election workers.
"How can an illegal immigrant be a registered voter in North Carolina?" Hailey wondered. "We want our workers to promote the candidate, not whether they should vote or not."
O'Keefe took a different view. "I think it's the responsibility of campaign managers to follow the law and not commit felonies."
