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On 19 April 2016, social media users began sharing links to what appeared to be a Huffington Post article titled The Fix Is In: Sanders Supporters in New York See Votes Switched to Hillary, which reported that persons casting ballots for Bernie Sanders in the New York state Democratic primary election were seeing their votes recorded for rival candidate Hillary Clinton: The hoax article appears to legitimately originate with the Huffington Post: However, closer inspection showed that the article in question did not originate with the leigitmate Huffington Post web site; rather, it was a hoax published by an impostor site that mimicked HuffPo's familiar look: Additionally, a tiny gray hyperlink titled Disclaimer at the very bottom of article led to a page that acknowledged the site's counterfeit nature and identified the site's content as fiction: This report was aggregated by the similarly unreliable web site United Media Publishing, which cited the counterfeit Huffington Post site as a source. This hoaxc article popped up as New York's primary was already riddled with confusion. A lawsuit was filed on behalf of voters claiming they were disenfranchised from participating in the election, and, according to reports, approximately 125,000 Democraticvoters were purged in Kings County alone.
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