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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf 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
But the effort, led by Trumps 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.
Donald Trump says he will accept US election result 'if I win'
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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 Universitys 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
Trumps then-attorneywho has since spectacularly fallen out with the presidentpromised 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.
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)diva77
(7,664 posts)malaise
(269,215 posts)Ask Mike Connell,- oh wait he died in a plane crash
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/12/3/810428/-
diva77
(7,664 posts)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