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2016 Postmortem

MadDAsHell

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8. This is fantastic. I don't see people giving up private contact information for electors though...

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Mon Nov 28, 2016, 03:27 PM

Nov 2016

especially since some of them have apparently already been receiving threats. Maybe there could be a secure website where electors could submit their information to be contacted.

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This is fantastic. I don't see people giving up private contact information for electors though... MadDAsHell Nov 2016 #8

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