Current Events > Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman ordered to spend 500 hours registering voters

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A judge on Tuesday ordered Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, two right-wing conspiracy theorists behind robocalls that sought to intimidate Black voters here out of casting mail-in ballots in the 2020 presidential election, to spend 500 hours registering voters in low-income neighborhoods in the Washington, D.C., area.

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge John Sutula placed each on two years of probation, fined each $2,500 and ordered them to wear GPS ankle monitors with home confinement beginning at 8 p.m. each day for the first six months of their probation.

Sutula, 71, said that most of the civil rights advances in the United States have occurred in his lifetime. He compared the mens effort to those who used violence to suppress southern Black voters in the 1960s.

I think its a despicable thing that you guys have done, he said.

Wohl, 24, and Burkman, 56, attended the hearing via Zoom along with their attorneys. When given the chance to address their charges in court for the first time since they were charged, each man was brief.

I just really want to express my absolute regret and shame over all of this, Wohl said.

Burkman did not share any thoughts of his own.

I would just echo Mr. Wohls sentiment, Burkman said. I think the same.

Well that's certainly an interesting penalty. I think they definitely should have had prison time as well, though, given the fact that this was a major voter suppression effort that violated multiple federal laws.

$2500 fine is so weak considering these ghouls should be in prison. But having to spend 500 hours registering low-income voters is just desserts for their crimes here

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Or will there be vigilante justice?

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I have a conspiracy theory.

They're going to get people arrested for committing voter fraud because they're deliberately going to do a shit job.

This just seems set up to allow them to continue their abuse.

Why would you put them in charge of something they tried to stop?

The judge is a fucking moron with this nursery rhyme sentencing bullshit.

Sentence them to jail and be done with it lol

Strider102 posted...

I have a conspiracy theory.

They're going to get people arrested for committing voter fraud because they're deliberately going to do a shit job.

Ding. It's like making a failed bank robber have to be in charge of the storage boxes at banks that people store expensive and legal documents in.

Jacob Wohl is constantly in the news because he's trying to treat politics like a video game. This is the same guy that attempted to set Robert Mueller up in a fake sex scandal. It's ridiculous how this dude just routinely fails to meet any real punishment for his crimes.