The Curious Case of Douglass Mackey

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So…Douglass Mackey, 31, from Delray Beach, Florida was arrested by the FBI for his use of Twitter during the run up to the 2016 presidential election.

His crime?

He created a meme that said, “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” and asked people to vote for Hillary using a hashtag on Twitter or Facebook or by texting to a certain phone number. That, according to the FBI constituted election interference and a violation of a federal law that makes it illegal for people to threaten or intimidate others from exercising any right secured to them by the Constitution, such as the right to vote.

To be clear here, Mackey threatened nobody. Mackey intimidated nobody. By the rule of law under which Mackey has been charged, he did nothing wrong, and yet, he was arrested and if found guilty he faces up to 10 years in a federal prison.

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