Woman dons a burka and poses as Huma Abedin in an attempt to vote as Clinton's aide and expose voter fraud

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A woman donned a 'full burka' and posed as longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin at a New York City polling station in an attempt to prove the ease with which voter fraud is committed.

The video, created by Project Veritas, was posted on YouTube just one day before the elections showing the 'undercover' woman being given an affidavit paper ballot to vote under Abedin's name.

It is unclear when the clip was filmed, but a federal judge ruled on Friday night that the New York City Board of Elections must provide affidavit ballots to all voters whose names do not appear on the registration rolls.

While the poll worker handed the Abedin impostor an affidavit ballot as mandated by the order, what the video did not make clear was that paper ballots are verified against BOE records before they are counted.

A woman donned a 'full burka' and posed as longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin at a New York City polling station in an attempt to prove the ease with which voter fraud is committed

The imposter is greeted by an election official who says that her 'name is not in the book'

At the polling station, the woman was eventually told by one official: 'Your name is not in the book...but that doesn't mean you can't vote by paper ballot. You just can't vote by machine'

Project Veritas released videos in October suggesting Democrats hired people to incite violence at Donald Trump's rallies. One Democratic operative was fired as a result, and another stepped down.

But James O'Keefe, the conservative behind Project Veritas, a group that claims to 'investigate and expose corruption', has also been repeatedly slammed for being a 'hoax artist' for his heavily edited videos.

The video posted on Monday showed a woman who claimed to be a journalist heading to a polling station in New York City and giving her name as 'Huma Abedin'.

The video was edited to include footage from a holiday party in 2015, where Alan Schulkin, Commissioner of the BOE, also suggested voter fraud was widespread

In edited footage interspersed throughout the three-minute clip, a woman's voice can be heard talking to Alan Schulkin, Commissioner of the Board of Elections, at a holiday party in 2015, claiming that voter fraud would be easy to accomplish with the help of a burka. 

Federal judge Nicholas Garaufis (pictured) signed a hand-written notice that requires the BOE in New York to actively disperse its new affidavit ballot policy

While the YouTube video title claims the woman wore a 'full burka', her face is shown at the beginning of the video in a hijab, and Abedin does not wear any religious garments.

Back at the polling station, the woman was eventually told by one official: 'Your name is not in the book. For some reason, it's not here, but that doesn't mean you can't vote by paper ballot. You just can't vote by machine.'

The impostor then asked: 'Okay, so I can vote today?'

The poll worker responded: 'By paper, yes.' 

When she was finally handed a paper vote, the impostor pulled back and said she would return after making a call to her husband, Anthony, in a reference to the disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, Abedin's real-life husband.

When Abedin's impostor was finally handed a paper vote, she pulled back and said she would return after making a call (pictured, Abedin)

In the video footage from the holiday party, Sculkin also talked about voter fraud and verified the woman's claims, saying: 'Your vote isn't really counting because they can go in there with a burka on and you don't know if they are a voter.'

Edited together, the video suggested voter fraud is rampant and easy to accomplish.

While voter fraud certainly exists, the 'experiment' was misleading, because paper ballots are then vetted against BOE records before they are actually counted.

On Friday, federal judge Nicholas Garaufis signed a hand-written notice that requires the BOE in New York to actively disperse its new affidavit ballot policy to poll workers.

The order read: 'If you believe you are registered to vote, and your name does not appear in the poll book, you are entitled to an affidavit ballot. Your vote may be counted.'

So while the poll worker handed the Abedin impostor an affidavit ballot, it did not mean it would be automatically accepted, since paper ballots are verified against BOE records first.

The new ruling also gave the following directive to poll workers: 'You must also advise the individual that he or she receive notice as to the status of whether the ballot was counted.' 

Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested the presidential election is being fixed against him by Clinton supporters, the media and even polling place workers.  

Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested the presidential election is being fixed against him by Clinton supporters, the media and even polling place workers

Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School, found just 31 incidents of voter impersonation between 2000 and August 2014, among more than a billion ballots cast in elections at both the local and national levels. 

Christopher Ashby, an attorney and veteran campaign operative who is listed on the Republican National Lawyers Association, debunked claims of a rigged election through a firestorm of tweets.

He explained the system of checks in place, like ID requirements and election officials who are required by law to consist of both Republicans and Democrats, to prevent voter fraud.

Ashby also said the voting machines are tested and then sealed, adding: 'Voting machines are equipped with multiple interconnected counters that make it impossible to add or remove votes secretly.

After the election, the count and recount is conducted through a public process, with officials keeping detailed records, which are open to inspection, he wrote.

Acknowledging human error and a 'small fraction' of attempted cheating, the attorney wrote: 'To rig an election, you would need technological capabilities that might exist only in Mission Impossible movies….'

He added: 'So any candidate who implies that his/her followers need to take the law into their own hands on E Day is horribly manipulating them.'

'Watching doesn’t mean loitering menacingly in and around a polling place. That’s not poll watching, that’s voter intimidation,' he wrote.

He issued a call to action, writing: 'Republican leaders and lawyers should speak out against this fantastical nonsense.'