A social media joke playing on widespread (and typically false) rumors of voter fraud went a little too far when North Carolina Facebook user Robert Dougherty posted a prank message saying that he’d voted for Hillary Clinton multiple times using his friends’ identities:

Dougherty’s jape produced the usual hyperbolic hand-wringing from factually-challenged political sites such as the Gateway Pundit:

Hillary supporter Robert Dougherty from Jacksonville, North Carolina bragged on Facebook today about how he committed voter fraud. Robert boasted on how he voted for some of his Facebook friends using their identities, and tells them not to worry about voting, because he’s already done it for them. And he’s bragging about it on Facebook. Robert boasts about how they give you a sticker every time you vote.

He says he will continue to vote all next week!



But as the Jacksonville Daily News reported, Dougherty had voted only once, and his Facebook posts were just a spoof of North Carolina’s lack of ID requirements for voters at polling places: