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Can you please explain which portion of his messages encouraging voters to "vote by SMS" constitute satire?

You seem unfamiliar as to how memes work. Have you never seen people post "Vote early, vote often"? It's the same as that.

it turns out "it's just memes, bro" is a poor defense against Conspiracy Against Rights charges.

> Have you never seen people post "Vote early, vote often"? It's the same as that.

If you are aware of an instance of someone being convicted by a jury of their peers of Conspiracy Against Rights for sharing "vote early, vote often," be sure to let us know.

It's possible that Popehat's Law of Goats applies here. Even if Mackey was totally joking about what he was doing, he was still engaged in voter suppression.

Then apply it equally and lock up anyone that has ever tweeted "vote early, vote often" or "Party X votes Tuesday, Party Y votes Wednesday" (when the election is on Tuesday). Of course, with all these politically motivated prosecutions it only goes one way.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/former-us-congressman-a...

That is factually incorrect: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/31/far-right-influence...