"They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it."
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
February 4, 2021
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
... it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.
They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.
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