Video Admission Of Double Voting Leads To Charge Against NH Man

CONCORD, NH — Undercover journalists at Project Veritas interviewing an elderly New Hampshire man admitting to voting in two states appears to have led to a charge against him by the New Hampshire Department of Justice on April 19, 2019. Robert A. Bell of Atkinson was arrested on a single count of voting in more than one state prohibited, a felony, yesterday, at the Atkinson Police Department. Bell, according to the NH DOJ, cast votes in both Atkinson and Palm Coast, FL, during the 2018 general election.

Bell knowingly checked in at the checklist in Atkinson and cast a ballot here after having already cast a ballot in the same election in Florida, alleged Nicholas Chong Yen, an assistant attorney general, election law unit, with the NH DOJ.

Bell, a Republican, was interviewed by Project Veritas, a group of investigative journalists that have spent years tracking and uncovering voter fraud and election law violations in the United States with provocative undercover videos. In the latest video to come out of New Hampshire, Bell was interviewed outside of his Atkinson home. During that interview, Bell was recorded admitting to voting twice. Bell’s ex-wife was also interviewed in Florida where she stated that he no longer lived at the address and shouldn't be voting in the Sunshine State.

Florida has a residency requirement for voting, the video noted.

James O’Keefe, the founder of the organization, was in New Hampshire last week as the keynote speaker of the 603 Alliance event, “Liberty trumps Socialism,” and spoke about the video. He was also served with a subpoena from the NH DOJ to appear before a grand jury in Hillsborough County on May 17, to “testify to what you know relating to an investigation by the grand jury into the operations of Project Veritas.”

O’Keefe noted on the Project Veritas website and during his 603 Alliance speech that as a journalist working to uncover corruption, he and the org would not be cooperating with any attempts to criminalize investigative reporting. He surmised that the subpoena could be related to undercover videos of Bernie Sanders campaign workers admitting to registering to vote from a campaign office address in Manchester where no one lives during the 2016 presidential primary.

O’Keefe was previously subpoenaed by the NH AG’s Office in 2016, after revealing political mischief by foreigners – members of the Australian Labor Party – assisting Sanders, and in 2012, for recording election workers in Nashua, showing how easy it was to register to vote in another person’s name or even as dead people that were still registered, without identification.

The Sanders campaign was later fined by the Federal Elections Commission.

Bell will be arraigned in Rockingham County Superior Court on May 3.

Editor's note: This post was derived from info supplied by the New Hampshire Department of Justice. It does not indicate a conviction. This link explains the name removal request process for New Hampshire’s Patch police reports.