Headlines From The Future II

Voting ‘Tips’ Creator Arrested For Election Interference

Scott Davis, a local car mechanic and election warden in Toledo, OH was arrested last week after posting a set of ‘tips’ for the upcoming Presidential Election. Federal agents raided the 57 year old’s home in the wee hours of the morning for violating the Voting Rights Act and intimidating/discouraging would-be voters from casting ballots in the election.

The ‘tips’ included bringing a registered ID to the polling station and several references to ‘citizenship’ as a pre-requisite to vote. FBI Special Agent Dong Wang, the arresting officer, made several comments about the raid and Davis’s crimes. “In 2024, before a consequential election, we must remain vigilant to threats to our most sacred tradition. If we do not uphold the right to vote, we will soon one day lose that core, foundational sacrament of our democracy.”

A severe, far right back-lash has bludgeoned their way through social media, stating that Davis’s post was not an illegal act and that non-citizens do not have the right to vote in any election. Voting Right’s scholar and Civil Rights attorney Sheila Jackson-Brown-Carter had this to say in response “In this day in age [sic], we cannot be telling folks who can be voting and who can’t. Undocumented citizens do not vote in our elections, we have hundreds of studies to prove it. But when you post on social media like this man did, you risk creating a hostile environment for the voting population. Mr. Davis might as well as have brought a gun to the polling station and we will not stand for it.”

Many harken back to the landmark case of United States v. Mackey where evil-internet-racist-troll, Douglass Mackey, was found guilty of conspiracy against rights for posting a shocking bit of disinformation related to at-home voting via text message, which suppressed voter turnout and some theorize, lost Hillary Clinton the 2016 election.

Davis, a lifelong Democrat, says he did not intend any harm in his post. He is awaiting trial in a Toledo jail.