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THE RIGHT-WING TECHNOCRATIC DREAM OF STOPPING NONEXISTENT VOTER FRAUD

When you’re a right-wing actor who’s good with computers, you may be confident
that you’re the one who can prove the existence of something that doesn’t exist.

Analysis by Philip Bump
National columnist
May 30, 2024 at 10:24 a.m. EDT

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There is a reason that numbers nerds tend to like elections and sports: Each
involves competition that can be tracked in intimate detail through data.
There’s a human element, sure, voters voting and athletes athleting. But those
activities aggregate into scads of data emerging over decades — data that can be
pored over, reformed, dug through and assembled.


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