Patrick Moran, son of and Field Director for Congressman Jim Moran (D-Va.), supported the idea to use voter fraud to win the election, according to a video released Wednesday morning by Project Veritas.
The undercover reporter posed as an enthusiastic voter who wanted to dabble in voter fraud because he was afraid to lose the election. Moran was skeptical, at first, and hesitant about the reporter’s suggestions but later caved and began suggesting tips to help him succeed in his fraud.
Moran emphasized that voter fraud needed to be well-executed in order to avoid potential problems with the law. He suggested faking utility bills to prove residency since bank statements would be too hard to fake.
“You’d have to forge it,” he repeated and agreed that Microsoft Word would probably work to fix up the fake bills but he advised that the undercover reporter get a good tech guy and call up the people whose bills he was planning to fake in order to make sure that they weren’t going to vote themselves.
The evidence is especially precarious for the campaign given that Rep. Moran, along with Congressmen Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), had just delivered a letter to Eric Holder Tuesday morning requesting a voter fraud investigation of Pinpoint, a company contracted by the the Republican Party of Virginia to register voters.
Pinpoint is under the parent company of Strategic Allied Consulting, which is currently facing charges of more than 100 counts of voter fraud.
The Congressmen wrote that they want the justice department to, “determine if a pattern of voting registration irregularities related to Strategic Allied Consulting are connected and constitute a broader conspiracy of voter registration fraud.”
Accounts of voter fraud within Moran’s own campaign can only serve to undermine the weight of that letter.
“This is the most damning evidence to date of the scope of voter fraud in this country,” said James O’Keefe, the head of Project Veritas, in the letter releasing the video. “Patrick Moran is not only the son of an 11-term Congressman, but is also the Field Director on his father’s re-election campaign.”
Moran should be the first person to oppose voter fraud, but instead he actively encouraged the undercover reporter to forge documents and pose as a pollster to disenfranchise voters in Virginia, Washington D.C. and Maryland, O’Keefe said.
Project Veritas was started in 2010 by O’Keefe as a platform for a team of investigative reporters who go undercover and videotape in order to, “investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct.”
O’Keefe’s work was launched into the national spotlight with his 2009 video that caught workers from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) discussing how to hide prostitution activity and avoid taxes.
Since then O’Keefe, and his organization, have been accused of selectively editing and framing videos despite the fact that Project Veritas makes it a point to show only raw, unedited and complete footage.
How ever you look at it, it is difficult to spin a video that clearly shows a Moran that is, at the very least, considering and encouraging participation in voter fraud.
His father, Rep. Moran, will have some difficult cleaning up to do.
Check out the video below:
