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A data science professor calls for an election recount! "Bullet ballots" are problematic.

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Did a data science professor call for an election recount?

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YouTube channel Thom Hartmann Program published a video featuring Stephen Spoonamore who says there's a possibility that the 2024 and the 2020 elections were hacked. There is no evidence of widespread fraud during the 2020 election, according to PBS. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/exhaustive-fact-check-finds-little-evidence-of-voter-fraud-but-2020s-big-lie-lives-on

According to PolitiFact, "election fraud claims shifted after Trump’s victory, but baseless theories persisted," with no proof of any fraud. https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/election-fraud-claims-shifted-after-trumps-victory-but-baseless-theories-persisted/
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