Its a common theme used online in posts and memes for years, about voting dates moved, vote by sending text, vote by calling a number, voting places moved, all fake.<p>He wasn't even the only one to do this joke online, a quick twitter search showed both sides promoting the same fake scenarios. This was also popular genre of meme on facebook.<p>The case also proved nobody was affected by the joke, and the his joke was censored by twitter. Also twitter didnt remove others jokes using the same voting meme style.<p>So we have a joke, nobody fell for, nobody should fall for, and somehow, only the Government didn't realize it was a historical common joke....<p>Saying he was trying to disenfranchise the public, is a real stretch. Jokes with this same genre have been around since the turn of the century.<p>His account was just a meme account, just like the bee or onion. Saying his post was taken as fact semes unlikely.<p>They had to use a KKK law about voter intimidation to persecute him, and they referenced his conservative postings and anti-Hillary viewpoint as proof he was a "bad dude".