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Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts)
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 01:58 AM Nov 2016

Don't Be Fooled By All the Dumb Election Myths Going Around the Internet

Mother Jones

Myth: Lines will be long on Tuesday, so wait a day to vote

The lines may indeed be long, but you can't vote after polls close on Tuesday. No exceptions.



Myth: The voting machines are controlled by George Soros

More than 3,000 Redditors have upvoted "Operation Stop Soros," alleging that 16 states are using machines owned by billionaire George Soros to sway the vote for Clinton. It's popped up on conservative news sites too, including the Daily Caller. There's no substance to back this up; this BuzzFeed article debunks the Soros-controlled voting machines conspiracy.

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Don't Be Fooled By All the Dumb Election Myths Going Around the Internet (Original Post) Algernon Moncrieff Nov 2016 OP
It's like selling High School Freshman the pass to the "pool" on the roof. Dummies. TrekLuver Nov 2016 #1
Mythed opportunity Beartracks Nov 2016 #2
 

TrekLuver

(2,573 posts)
1. It's like selling High School Freshman the pass to the "pool" on the roof. Dummies.
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 02:02 AM
Nov 2016

Oh The Daily Caller, that's where I go to shoot fish in a barrel.

Beartracks

(12,814 posts)
2. Mythed opportunity
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 02:19 AM
Nov 2016

Funny how that many people could imagine machines being controlled by some wealthy corporate-type person, but ONLY if that person is a Democrat; it could NEVER possibly happen on their side!

A confederacy of cognitive dissonant dunces.

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