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Russians Tried to Suppress Minority Turnout, Spread Lies About Voter Fraud [View all]
ARI BERMAN
FEB. 16, 2018 2:24 PM
Russian nationals tried to suppress minority turnout in the 2016 election and spread false claims about voter fraud in an effort to harm Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and help Donald Trump, according to an indictment announced today by the Justice Department.
The indictment says that a St. Petersburg-based company called Internet Research Agency LLC began in the second half of 2016 to "encourage U.S. minority groups not to vote in the 2016 U.S. presidential election or to vote for a third-party U.S. presidential candidate" ...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/russians-tried-to-suppress-minority-turnout-spread-lies-about-voter-fraud/
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