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A comment on Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump. Parent comment

Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by jacquesm on Sunday October 16, 2016 @04:01AM (#12717561)
At least one presidential election has been decided by a margin so close that a few hundred votes made the difference. That's not so massive a scale that it couldn't happen.
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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by Tom1971 on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:45PM (#12719486)
Yes. And far more than hanging chads, that election was primarily decided by thousands of potential voters being incorrectly purged from the voting lists.
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