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I haven\u2019t heard any discussion of one of the more obvious points concerning this year\u2019s election results. So, I\u2019ll take it up. That point is simple. A large number of voters were missing at the polls this year because they died during the COVID pandemic. Around 3\/4 of a million of those who died were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":39974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8249,8260,41,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2022-election","category-covid","category-politics","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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