Did the Republicans violate election laws in 2014 midterms? Twitter offers clues

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Did the Republicans violate election laws in 2014 midterms? Twitter offers clues

By Husna Haq at the Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Buzz/2014/1117/Did-the-Republicans-violate-election-laws-in-2014-midterms-Twitter-offers-clues?cmpid=addthis_reddit

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That's according to a report by CNN's Chris Moody, "How the GOP used Twitter to stretch election laws," that suggests that Republicans and Republican-oriented super PACs and advocacy groups used Twitter accounts to share internal polling data ahead of the midterm elections, "a practice that raises questions about whether they violated campaign finance laws that prohibit coordination," writes CNN.

The strategy appears to be something out of a spy movie.

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Anonymous Twitter accounts, including @TruthTrain14 and @brunogianelli44, named after the fictional character in "The West Wing" who pushed for the use of "soft money" in campaign funding, were set up in the months leading up to November's midterm elections. Enigmatic messages were periodically tweeted; inscrutable to most, they conveyed internal polling data, which could signal to outside groups where to devote campaign resources.


For example, one tweet read: "@truthtrain14 FL-44/42-44/44-35/35-42/41-49/47-10/22/14-26"




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[SamKnause]

1. The question should be;

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How many times has the Republican party violated election laws and why does the Supreme Court allow it to continue ????

[Prophet 451]

2. This SCOTUS?

This SCOTUS is just waiting for a chance to declare any and all campaign financing laws "unconstitutional".

[SamKnause]

3. Proof that the justice system

in the U.S. is broken.

[Prophet 451]

4. No argument

There's a lot that needs changing and lifetime tenure for SCOTUS judges is one of them. It was intended to insulate judges from politics but all it's done is given lifetime tenure to whatever madman the GOP can get through.