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So it's people being paid to knock on doors for trump. Lying about knocking on doors to still get paid.
At least this time the fraud is fucking trump and Musk.
Although it's likely this shit will be used to claim trump had "more voters than votes" but they'll claim Dems cheated no matter what
Excuse my ignorance here, but what is the data that they're collecting being used for? We see polls every day suggesting that Trump and Kamala are closer in votes than anyone on Lemmy would like, but now I wonder who exactly is being grifted. Is this Trump being lied to and paying for a service he isn't receiving, or is this data being falsified to make Trump look more popular than he is, lending weight and legitimacy to his claims of widespread voter fraud?
I'd love, for once, for Trump's own philosophies to be biting him, but based on the past, I'm worried this is just another tool in the misinformation arsenal.
This isn't about gathering data so much as it is encouraging Trump supporters to get out and vote, is my read.
Some polls are bullshit, but polling aggregators still use them.
So if you look at respectable independent polling, it doesn't matter at all.
If you blindly follow aggregators, then it would effect the overall numbers.
But from the article it's grifting from Musk's PAC, they're the ones paying for the canvassing that's not happening
Well, the question here is - if they know the canvassers numbers are bunk, would they still try to use them? It'd be a way of creating more respectable fake polls, I suppose.
This is the worrying bit. It will get debunked but they'll still make the claim and their faithful will believe it, and that will be a justification for messing up with the vote counting and the certification processes post election.