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Elon Musk backed reality star Spencer Pratt’s suggestions on Thursday that the mail-in voting system “could be” rife with widespread fraud after Pratt recently failed to advance to a runoff in the Los Angeles mayor’s race when mail-in ballots counted after Election Day swung the race in his opponents’ favor.
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Musk reposted a 10-minute video message from Pratt discussing the “Red Mirage” phenomenon when early election results tend to favor Republicans, only to swing in favor of Democrats when mail-in ballots are counted, since Democrats historically vote by mail in larger proportions than Republicans.
“California has legalized election fraud,” Musk wrote in reposting the video.
Pratt held second-place, and was more than 40,000 votes ahead of LA City Council member Nithya Raman, a Democrat, in the days after Election Day, but she leaped ahead of him when mail-in ballots…
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