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applegrove

(118,677 posts)
Wed Apr 10, 2019, 04:51 PM Apr 2019

Israeli Firm Boasts of Lowering Turnout

Israeli Firm Boasts of Lowering Turnout

April 10, 2019 at 3:53 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 64 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/04/10/israeli-firm-boasts-of-lowering-turnout/

"SNIP....

Haaretz: “An Israeli public relations company headed by a settler leader boasted Wednesday that it was behind the Likud initiative to place 1,200 hidden cameras in Arab polling stations on Election Day. The firm added that it was to thank for the historically low turnout among Arab voters.”

From the company’s statement: “Thanks to us placing observers in every polling station we managed to lower the voter turnout to under 50 percent, the lowest in recent years!”

.....SNIP"

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DFW

(54,403 posts)
3. Lemme guess.............
Wed Apr 10, 2019, 05:43 PM
Apr 2019

They work with/for

the RNC
Fox "News"
Mitch McConnell
Sheldon Adelson
Charles and David Koch
Karl Rove
Rick Scott
any of about 25 Republican governors currently in office.

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