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Fell for satire … should have read the replies.

To be again, you'd have had to have been right at least once before.

It was only two paragraphs. Do you need a couple days to get through it?

Chrissey hates information, apparently.

Don't you just hate bleeding heart, liberal judges who hold the government to its burden of proof?

The parties do not dispute either (1) that Mackey posted the memes or (2) that his doing so independently would not be a crime under Section 241. Section 241 criminalizes only conspiracies between “two or more persons.” As a result, the mere fact that Mackey posted the memes, even assuming that he did so with the intent to injure other citizens in the exercise of their right to vote, is not enough, standing alone, to prove a violation of Section 241. The government was obligated to show that Mackey knowingly entered into an agreement with other people to pursue that objective. See United States v. Scott, 979 F.3d 986, 990 (2d Cir. 2020).

This the government failed to do. Its primary evidence of agreement, apart from the memes themselves, consisted of exchanges among the participants in several private Twitter message groups—exchanges the government argued showed the intent of the participants to interfere with others’ exercise of their right to vote. Yet the government failed to offer sufficient evidence that Mackey even viewed—let alone participated in—any of these exchanges. And in the absence of such evidence, the government’s remaining circumstantial evidence cannot alone establish Mackey’s knowing agreement. Accordingly, the jury’s verdict and the resulting judgment of conviction must be set aside.

This freak has a screw loose and is a danger to himself and others.

Humor?