In Mr. McAnally's gleeful, cartoon impersonations, shaped under the go-for-it direction of Ed Stern, they are simply and hilariously gross (a word Mrs. Mannerly would probably frown on).
"Republicans have to have some reason to do this because it doesn't sound good to say, 'We don't want Latinos or African-Americans voting.' " But Republicans counter that detecting and proving voter impersonation is tricky under current law precisely because few states require photo identification.
The only kind of fraud such ID laws prevent is impersonation: a person registered under a false name or claiming to be someone else on the voter rolls.
The role, which caused local authorities to arrest him under ordinances forbidding impersonation of the Deity, drew nationwide attention.
In their brief to the Court of Appeals, Manhattan prosecutors cited Golb's "relentless impersonation and harassment," sending emails under aliases to museum administrators, academics and reporters, and eventually impersonating his father's critics online.
The State Department had asked the New York police to try to find Rodney Sterling Wyman — the only name the State Department had for our man — and place him under arrest for having impersonated a naval officer, since the impersonation had occurred in New York as well as in Washington.
Of the government-reported abusive content that Twitter did remove, the company reports the largest proportion was related to harassment and "hateful conduct" — stating that: "The majority was removed for "violating rules under these areas: harassment (37%), hateful conduct (35%), and impersonation (13%)".
Under the planned crackdown, investigators found guilty of hacking or impersonation to obtain private information will be banned from holding a licence.
A highlight of the patchy movie was O'Neil's broad pantomime impersonation of Bette Davis, and in another amusing sequence she and Secombe, while under the spell of a stage hypnotist, perform Verdi's "Miserere" duet with Secombe singing soprano and O'Neil baritone.
However, voting in areas under their influence was marred by murder, intimidation and even mass impersonation.
