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Sounds like they ran negative campaign ads? Hardly voter suppression and trivializes it by trying to equate the two.

Well, I wish I was able to fit the entire title in the submission. If anything, I feel that the bribery aspect is more damning.

>"You can spend $10 million on an election. Or we can send one of our guys in to go offer the leader of the opposition a bribe, you know, three weeks before polling. It's a very good way to win an election.”

IANAL, is this enough to prosecute?

It seems like enough to get a warrant.

I wonder if that's what happened to Bernie Sanders. Immediately after his defeat in the primary he bought yet another house, his third. The timing is just too suspicious to be coincidental.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/bernie-sanders-summe...

From the article: "Jane told Seven Days that they had recently sold a house in Maine that had belonged to her family since the 1900s, and used the proceeds to purchase the new property, which is located in North Hero (population 803, as of the 2010 census)."

Why would he have bought a house when he was planning on moving to the White House?

I doubt it. He's the most principled seeming american politican and he sold another house for this one.

I would think that he bought the house not for a new excess of money, but time.

He "sold another house" yet showed no such activity in that year's tax return?

I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop regarding how Peter Thiel became Trump's biggest fan and to what extent Palantir was involved with CA.

What gets me is that when there was a really blatant attempt at voter suppression last US election using Facebook ads falsely warning North Dakota hunters they'd lose their hunting licenses if they voted, by the official North Dakota Democratic state affiliate no less, only a few really right-wing outlets called that voter suppression. Hell, I don't think most of the mainstream news outlets even covered it.

Wow, that is so astonishingly scummy [1]

[1] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/nov...

It did get covered but it materialized, got called, out and disappeared in the span of like a few days.

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