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Sick trolls fess up to making fake polls that helped Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan: ‘Far too easy’

Wedgewood Polls, a sham polling firm, publicly confessed to pumping out fake polls after it was caught fabricating data by election nerds at FiftyPlusOne, which had been poised to publish an investigation.

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