President Barack Obama (D) laughs after reading the latest insane conspiracy email about him. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom">Barack Obama</a>/Flickr
Wondering how the far-right might handle an Obama victory on election night? Here’s a clue, in the form of a fundraising pitch from something called the American Conservative PAC. It features “busloads” of Somalis and Facebook postings from North Carolinians, so you know it’s legit:
From Ohio to Nevada (and who knows where else), voting machines are selecting “Obama” when early voters cast their vote for Romney — and it happens repeatedly when voters catch the error before submitting their ballot and try again only to wind up with Obama, again.
A North Carolina Democrat bragged on Facebook about voting four times already and planning to vote a fifth time tomorrow.Early voting Somalis — with their TRANSLATORS — are arriving at polling stations by the busloads courtesy of Obama supporters. (Now, we don’t know about you, but we don’t know any U.S. CITIZENS that do not either speak or read English well-enough to vote…)
In Florida, conservative voters are receiving bogus letters falsely informing them that he or she will be unable to vote in this election due to miscellaneous (and non-existent) voter registration issues.And if all that wasn’t bad enough, the Obama-bots even have the help of an international body condemning our states trying to stand up to the infiltration of our polling booths!
Of course, giving a PAC money on election day wouldn’t really accomplish very much. And American Conservative PAC hasn’t really raised very much money—according to FEC filings, it has raised just $8,100 this cycle. But these conspiracies have gained traction on the far right. The Somali voter concern—notwithstanding that Somali-Americans are obviously allowed to vote—was parroted most notably by prominent anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller, who notably helped jumpstart the career of Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.). The Facebook post in question was a joke, but that hasn’t prevented the man who posted it from receiving death threats. People are terrible.