Charlie Kirk Exposes Voter Fraud! (Laughs Ensue)

/ August 12, 2018

BY HANK REICHMAN

Charlie Kirk is the twenty-something founder of the right-wing “student group” Turning Point USA, sponsor of the notorious Professor Watchlist.  Kirk’s group is so nutso that even the Charles Koch Foundation and the Young America’s Foundation have turned against it.  Sarah Ruger, director of Free Speech Initiatives for the Charles Koch Institute, labeled the Professor Watchlist “McCarthyism 2.0,”adding that it “keeps [her] up at night.”  The Young America’s Foundation blasted Turning Point for its “lack of integrity, honesty, experience, and judgment,” charging the group with falsifying the numbers of its members and activities, fabricating results to cover up failed efforts, recruiting “racists and Nazi sympathizers,” and engaging in other “unethical activity.”  Nevertheless, wealthy reactionaries still flock to the group and its allegedly charismatic leader.  From July 2016 through June 2017 Turning Point raised more than $8.2 million, up from $4.3 million in the previous fiscal year.  There are three possible explanations for that: these donors don’t know what they’re doing; they don’t care what they’re doing; or they actually support Kirk’s odious behavior. It could be all three, of course.

Now, in his tireless search for publicity at whatever cost, Kirk has discovered that Democrat Danny O’Connor fared so well in Tuesday’s Ohio-12 special election only because of outrageous voter fraud, including the participation in the voting of, shall I say, “excessively senior” voters.  Here’s his tweet:

[In case Kirk deletes this, here’s the text: “Voter fraud is real: 170 Voters in Ohio race ‘Over 116 Years Old,’ World’s Oldest Person Is 115.”]

Pretty scary!  Sounds like the tired “dead people at the polls” scam may be alive and well in Ohio!  Well, not quite.  Because another Twitter user, one “Sean C. Imbroglio, from Franklin County” (that’s where Columbus is; part of the county, the most Democratic, is in the 12th District), decided to do a little, well, fact-checking and produced this wonderful Twitter thread:

Soon, of course, some other bozo repeated Kirk’s inane charge but upped the ante by also claiming that “Some Blue precincts had more votes cast than registered voters.”  Imbroglio had a response to that one too:

All this isn’t really that important, of course.  After all, these types are going to claim voter fraud whether it exists or not, because their real concern is voter suppression.  But it’s still fun to see Charlie Kirk once again exposed as the real shameless lying fraud in all this.

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