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CajunBlazer

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4. Voter suppression is not election fraud
Wed Nov 30, 2016, 01:38 PM
Nov 2016

Voter suppression, whether it be legal - created by state law, or illegal - voter intimidation, etc., is voter suppression. By definition it is not fraud. Stating voter suppression is election fraud is not accurate, it is confusing, and it is certainly not helpful. If you want the the masses to understand what voter fraud and election fraud are, you don't push that kind of narrative.

Since voting machines are not connected to the internet, they are very difficult to hack or manipulate. If there were an attempt to hack them, someone knowledgeable would have access each machine. In addition, most voting machines are actually vote counters which tally paper ballots, which if counted manually, would reveal the manipulation of the machines. If caught, someone is going to spend a lot of time in jail.

Most states and locations have sufficient safeguards in place to make it difficult if not impossible for individuals to vote improperly. Organizing such an effort on a massive scale would be impossible.

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