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diva77

(7,664 posts)
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 05:22 AM Jan 2019

If online polls can be rigged, how about EXIT polls???

...seems highly plausible...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/20/citizens-for-donald-trump-exit-poll-roger-stone-rigged-election-claim

Oliver Laughland and Sam Thielman in New York

Thu 20 Oct 2016 17.40 EDT
Last modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018 14.04 EST

Trump loyalists plan own exit poll amid claims of 'rigged' election

Effort led by Trump confidante and conspiracy theorist Roger Stone targets cities with large minority populations, a tactic experts say could intimidate voters


Donald Trump loyalists will attempt to conduct their own crowd-funded exit polling on election day, ostensibly due to fears that electronic voting machines in certain areas may have been “rigged”, the Guardian has learned.

But the effort, led by Trump’s notorious informal adviser Roger Stone, will focus on 600 different precincts in nine Democrat-leaning cities with large minority populations, a tactic branded highly irregular by experts, who suggested that organizers could potentially use the polling as a way to intimidate voters.
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Stone told the Guardian that around 1,300 volunteers from the controversial Citizens for Trump grassroots coalition would conduct exit polling in Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Fort Lauderdale, Charlotte, Richmond and Fayetteville – all locations in pivotal swing states.

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Michael Cohen: I Rigged Online Polls for Trump

Ex-fixer confirms WSJ bombshell report: Scheme with Liberty University’s IT director was carried out ‘at the direction and for the sole benefit’ of the president.

Jamie Ross
01.17.19

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cohen-hired-it-firm-to-rig-online-polls-for-trump-says-report

Michael Cohen hired an IT firm to rig online polls in favor of Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 election and instructed the company to create the @WomenForCohen Twitter account to laud how sexually attractive he is, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Trump’s then-attorney—who has since spectacularly fallen out with the president—promised to pay $50,000 to the small tech firm run by a Liberty University staffer to help distort online polls on CNBC and the Drudge Report.

Cohen has confirmed the bombshell report to CNN, and claimed it was carried out “at the direction and for the sole benefit of Donald J. Trump.”
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If online polls can be rigged, how about EXIT polls??? (Original Post) diva77 Jan 2019 OP
There's no reason to trust the security of polling companies uponit7771 Jan 2019 #1
Exactly. Are they accountable to anyone? Are they regulated? diva77 Jan 2019 #4
Ohio 2004 malaise Jan 2019 #2
I know he was Rove's IT guy and arranged to have 2004 election results shunted thru Rethug diva77 Jan 2019 #3

diva77

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3. I know he was Rove's IT guy and arranged to have 2004 election results shunted thru Rethug
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 05:56 AM
Jan 2019

server in Ohio, but I was unaware of his involvement with exit polls -- makes sense he'd have to know what the polls would say so he could make the results line up...however...Oops, exit polls didn't line up with election results...uh oh...

https://www.electionmathematics.org/em-exitpolls/OH/2004Election/Ohio-Exit-Polls-2004.pdf

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