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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Far-right group Project Veritas admits it had ‘no evidence’ of voter fraud in Pennsylvania

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A man in a blue suit and tie looks serious
Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe attends the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas, on 9 July 2021. Photograph: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

The far-right political agitator James O’Keefe and the Project Veritas organization he once led have admitted that they had “no evidence” backing up widely spread claims of voter fraud at a Pennsylvania post office during the 2020 presidential election won by Joe Biden.

O’Keefe and Project Veritas made that admission on Monday after settling a lawsuit filed against them by Robert Weisenbach, the postmaster of Erie, Pennsylvania, in state court, concluding one of the more prominent legal battles spurred by Republican lies that Donald Trump was defrauded out of another term in the White House.

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