(Article by Steve Watson republished from Modernity.news)

Jimmy Kimmel: "If you want to vote for Trump, vote late. Vote very late. Do your voting on Thursday or maybe Friday." pic.twitter.com/Il1Ch6S0eE

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 31, 2024

It prompted some to point out that a Trump supporter got sentenced to prison for a very similar action.

There’s a guy in jail for telling this joke. https://t.co/FwdsR6h4Hx

— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) October 31, 2024

Trump supporter Douglass Mackey, also known as “Ricky Vaughn,” was handed a seven month sentence for sharing the memes that claimed Democrats could vote for Hillary by text in 2016.

Douglass Mackey, the man “on trial for memes,” was sentenced to seven months in prison Wednesday for his efforts to trick Hillary Clinton voters into staying home on Election Day in 2016. @NikaSchoonover https://t.co/0u8YsjmGdG

— Courthouse News (@CourthouseNews) October 18, 2023

Prosecutors claimed that Mackey was also a member of private direct-message groups on Twitter, in which he discussed ways of spreading material “intended variously to provoke, mislead, and, in some cases, deceive voters in the 2016 presidential election.”

No evidence was presented showing that anyone had been duped by the messages.

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