CONCORD, NH - The president of Project Veritas Action has been subpoenaed by the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office and ordered surrender video that undercover journalists captured purporting to show vote fraud, foreigners vandalizing political materials, and other election irregularities.
James O'Keefe, who is giving a speech on the Seacoast this morning, was in Concord on March 17, 2016, calling on the NH AG to investigate the fraud and irregularities captured by journalists that the nonprofit embedded in the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign in New Hampshire before the first-in-the-nation primary, as well as elections officials recorded giving varying advice about New Hampshire's same-day registration and domicile laws on the day of the election.
O'Keefe noted that instead of handing over the org's journalistic materials after being requested to by the NH AG in three letters, he would be dropping off a copy of the raw video to Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-Exeter, and requesting she order Attorney General Joseph Foster, who she appointed, to investigate the fraud.
"We have given election law violations, on a silver platter, to the state," he said.
Project Veritas Action, since the vote on Feb. 9, 2016, has released three video compilations of alleged illegal activities.
One included Bernie Sanders campaign staffers allegedly encouraging voter fraud and admitting to voter fraud by registering to vote from a campaign office. Another video recorded campaign poll workers allegedly encouraging voter fraud, completely misinterpreting the state's same-day voter registration law, and giving varying information to same-day voters. A third video reportedly shows three members of the Australian Labor Party, who were working for Sanders, pulling up Trump and Hillary Clinton signs around the Granite State and admitting that they were paid to come to the United States by taxpayers in that country to help Sanders win the primary, a Federal Elections Commission violation that caused headlines in the Australian and the UK press. Federal law prohibits foreign nationals and foreign political parties from contributing money, resources, or anything of value to a campaign organization in the United States.
During the press conference, O'Keefe stated that the org had embeds in Clinton's campaign and "thousands of hours of footage" of her campaign aides and future videos would be released. He said that they have investigators in all 50 states looking at laws and trying to track down fraud. O'Keefe added, however, that New Hampshire's same-day registration and domicile law, which essentially allows anyone to come to the state on the day of the election, claim they are domiciled here, vote, and then leave the next day, "was deeply problematic" and a process that is only allowed in New Hampshire.
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After the press conference at the Legislative Office Building in Concord, O'Keefe crossed the street and dropped off the hard drive disk, with all the raw video footage, at Hassan's office. The org also posted all of the raw video on YouTube.
After leaving the governor's office, O'Keefe was handed the subpoena by Investigator Richard Tracy.
O'Keefe asked Tracy if he had subpoenaed any of the people who were recorded reportedly breaking the law.
"That may happen," Tracy said. "Wherever the investigation leads us, that's where we'll go."
O'Keefe asked if he was involved in going after him four years ago, when his org exposed how easy it was for dead people to vote, after undercover journalists were able to request a dead person's ballot during the 2012 presidential election in New Hampshire because their identification was not checked.
Tracy said, "I wasn't involved in that," and then added, "We appreciate your cooperation and hopefully everything is on the video and we can work with it."
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