How Marine Le Pen is facing wipe out in French election after computer blunder

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  1. Jim Nash

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    https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....h-election-votes-computer-Emmanuel-Macron/amp

    French authorities have sent double voting slips to France's largely pro-European, leftwing expat community. They have no intention of investigating until after the election, and the fraudulent double votes will not be discounted.

    What a monumental fit up job. They'll quite brazenly do anything to stop her, including obvious and provable election fraud.
     
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    That's bad, gosh they have no way of detecting duplicate votes? Hah and our leftists scream about supposed Russian interference here.. That if true is blatant and beyond scandalous
     
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    Not everything is conspiracy.. Anyway, from your source:

    "Voting twice is a crime, but police will only find out if they run a check on the individual through their computer systems.

    The punishment can be up to two years in prison and a fine of about £13,500."

    I doubt many people are going to jump at the chance to be convicted of voter fraud.
     
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    Good info to but let's be frank if the opposition wins.. How much investigation do you think will happen?
     
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    Hey, if you thought it could stop Trump you'd do it right? ;). This cat's out of the bag and there's no way they're going to extradite several score of foreign French from overseas. Madam Le Pen's only hope is that there are French Nationalists overseas as well to counter the vote.
     
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    No, I wouldn't risk a big fine or prison sentence to try and stop Trump.

    This story does sound like the kind of nonsense we had to endure during the last election, though. So many accusations, so much paranoia. It's annoying, to say the least.
     
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    Giving left-wingers two votes provides certain societal benefits. :applause:
    But then, I'm a glass-half-full kind of guy.
     
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    Epic fraud. In any case, the next leftie government of France is not expected to last anyway due to internal economic woes.
     
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    About as many that were conducted in the past eight years in America.
     
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    They will if they think there's next to zero chance of being prosecuted. They'll know they received the double ballots for a reason.
     
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    Even if elected Le Pen can change nothing in France. Look traitor Trump. All western 'elections' are cheating and lie.
     
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    He's certainly underwhelming right now. Probably the campaign rhetoric was all bullsh.t. Did we really expect much different?
     
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    They are largeley pro european, but saying they are from left wing is not true. Representant of the french of the foreign are often from the UMP parti which now is named LR.

    Today, their is a lot of candidates who are against EU, but most of them have zero chances to get to the second round. For the four most popular candidate, two speak about leaving the EU. The first is the far right candidate M Le Pen, the second is JL Melenchon. However Melenchon want to re negociate the european treaties, and if the negociation fails, leaving EU. But both have few chances to be elected.
     

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