James O'Keefe Caught In Embarrassing Mistake

FACT CHECK: ‘Non-Citizen’ Voter In James O’Keefe’s Voter Fraud Video Is Actually A Citizen

Conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe released a new video today supposedly exposing voter fraud in North Carolina by highlighting non-citizens like Zbigniew Gorzkowski who have voted in recent elections.

The problem: Gorzkowski is an American citizen. In fact, if O’Keefe had done a simple Nexis search for “Zbigniew Gorzkowski”, he would have found a single article from the News & Observer in 2008 noting that Gorzkowski and his wife are naturalized citizens:

Customers flock through the red door of Zbigniew “Ziggy” and wife Halina Gorzkowski’s European grocery and flower shop to buy one of the 12 varieties they sell. The pierogis and 400 eastern European food items and flowers are also punching the naturalized citizen couple’s ticket for their version of the American Dream.

ThinkProgress spoke with Gorzkowski this morning. He verified that this information was indeed correct and he had been an American citizen since the late 1980s. Therefore, his votes in the 2008 and 2010 elections were not only perfectly legal, but encouraged as a civic duty.

In other words, the one instance in the video where O’Keefe purports to show that a non-citizen had actually voted, in fact shows that a citizen voted.

The episode does speak to a larger underlying problem with most accusations of voter fraud. It’s what I call the “Scooby Doo routine”. People like O’Keefe make wild voter fraud accusations like non-citizens voting, only to discover a much simpler explanation for the situation.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/0 ... -carolina/

Ooopsie... Another hit-piece/outrage-of-the-day, voter-fraud routine gone awry...

rofllol

So?
Just because a filmaker gets one wrong doesn't make the voter fraud in West Virginia or Florida a lie. You are referring to anecdotal evidence, the Florida Sec'y of State is saying hundreds of thousands of voter ID's are incorrect.

You mean the Florida Secretary of State that is a GOP goon? OK..

Yeah, that's really relevant to a hit-piece about North Carolina...

Yes, your outrage of the day is a simple mistake by a young man, like when Obama used to sell drugs or Mitt ran a free campus hair care salon.

I am talking about thousands of incorrect records that could decide an election.

Yeah, it's a good that that "young man" didn't go on one of his gotcha/witch-hunts at a Planned Parenthood clinic and "make a mistake", because FauxNews and all the Rightie blogs would be crapping all over themselves...

Yeah, what's another fake hit-piece/documentary among zealots... I'm getting dizzy from all the spinning... rofllol

LadyJazzer wrote:
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... I'm getting dizzy from all the spinning...

Then stop doing it.

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote:

LadyJazzer wrote:
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... I'm getting dizzy from all the spinning...

Then stop doing it.

Yeah, so the little Hitler-Youth squad-leader got busted... (And there's still a warrant out for his arrest in New Hampshire...)

I love it... spin, spin, spin...