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This isn't someone slashing your tires overnight when you are parked on a street.

It involves thousands of people directly and an extreme amount of information collecting and statistics analysis.

Not thousands of random people picked off the street, though. It involves thousands of people that overwhelmingly share a seething hatred of one of the two candidates.

> This isn't someone slashing your tires overnight when you are parked on a street.

Happens only in the ghettos tbh

I think you missed the point to a pretty extreme degree here.

This is about the likelihood of something occurring with no evidence left behind.

Not necessarily no evidence left behind, just no "smoking guns" that can be trivially discovered by private citizens without power of subpoena or warrant.

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