Far-right huckster Jacob Wohl has been accused of launching a robocall scheme aimed at voter suppression.
Michigan investigators are looking into reports of a call that gave voters fraudulent information about mail-in voting.
The voice on the call said the caller works for “Project 1599, a civil rights organization founded by Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl.”
The caller tells listeners that mail-in ballot information can be “used by police departments to track down old warrants,” “used by credit card companies to collect outstanding debts,” and that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might use it to “track people for mandatory vaccines.” The caller adds, “Don’t be BS’d into giving your private information to the man.”
The call was also played in Pennsylvania, according to tweets from people who said they received the call.
Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s secretary of state, tweeted the audio but said that “the source of the call is still unknown.”
The number that sent the call in Pennsylvania was Burkman’s Northern Virginia number.
“We have no connection to any such robocalls,” Burkman wrote in an email to the Daily Beast. He claimed the call came from “a liberal group trying to embarrass us.”
He added, “No one in their right mind would put their own cell on a robocall.”
Project 1599 is an organization founded by Wohl and Burkman.
The pair have been implicated in a number of other botched schemes, including trying to smear former special counsel Robert Mueller and former Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg with fake allegations of sexual assault.
The pair have also admitted to using robocalls in the past. Wohl provided the Daily Beast with a robocall in 2019 that he said would go out to thousands in Delaware and Pennsylvania. The call offered a cash reward to anyone who could prove that then-Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden had used a racial slur.
