Douglass Mackey, aka "Ricky Vaughn," was charged by the federal government with one count of conspiracy to interfere with the right to vote in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241 for using social media ...

Back in 2016, a man named Douglass Mackey, tweeting under the name “Ricky Vaughn,” repeatedly directed messages to Black voters encouraging them to vote by text for Hillary Clinton.

Douglass Mackey, a 33-year-old who went by the name Ricky Vaughn on Twitter, distributed images on social media in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election that encouraged people to ...