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edhopper

(33,587 posts) Fri Oct 6, 2017, 05:15 PM Oct 2017

By the rules of our elections

La La Land won the best picture Oscar and there is nothing that can be done about it.

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By the rules of our elections (Original Post) edhopper Oct 2017 OP

Difference Between Fraud & A Mistake SoCalMusicLover Oct 2017 #1

SoCalMusicLover

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1. Difference Between Fraud & A Mistake

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Fri Oct 6, 2017, 05:26 PM

Oct 2017

I agree that any fraudulent election should be overturned.

A valid comparison would be if someone rigged the votes so that La La Land had won, and it was later discovered they actually had not, that results were altered.

This is a Coup D'Etat

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