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A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts--an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year. Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s investigative reporting for Rolling Stone and BBC television plus new reporting by Palast for the…

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I’m passionately interested in how things work, even on a global scale. And Palast shows that in such a way that it’s not boring, and he backs up everything he says, sometimes with documents, sometimes with actual receipts.

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