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Horror as another suspect polling firm vanishes amid scrutiny: 'Major scandal'

The election forecasting community was rattled this week by reporting that Wedgewood Polls, a recent upstart firm, had been fabricating most or all of its data . Now another polling firm is in experts' crosshairs — but they seem to have deleted their entire internet presence before anything could be proven. FiftyPlusOne, a polling analysis site,…

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