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Matei Brancoveanu/500px/Getty Images(NEW YORK)  Douglass Mackey, the social media influencer known as "Ricky Vaughn," was sentenced Wednesday to seven months in prison for falsely assuring supporters of Hillary Clinton they could cast their vote in the 2016 presidential election through text messages or social media posts. Mackey was prosecuted under the Ku Klux Klan Act that was enacted during the Reconstruction era in response to efforts by the KKK to prevent recently emancepated Blacks from voting. Ahead of Mackey s sentencing, U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly denied Mackey s attempt to set aside the verdict or be granted a new trial. Mackey was 26 years old in 2015 when he began posting on Twitter under the pseudonym "Ricky Vaughn," amassing 51,000 followers on Twitter and ranking among the "most influential voices" posting about the 2016 presidential election, according to a list compiled by M.I.T. Federal prosecutors in New York said Mackey was

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