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One of the many online pranks in the 2016 election season was a purported image of an Oregon ballot shared via Twitter (but since removed), a photograph that seemingly showed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton listed twice but no entry for Republican nominee Donald Trump. The tweet by John Lussier included several hashtags commonly used by Trump supporters, to induce them to retweet it (which they did, thousands of times). Lussier soon tweeted again to announce that his previous tweet had been a hoax: He also said in a separate statement that the his tweet used a digitally manipulated image of a real ballot:
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