… Though most pollsters adhere to sound methodological practices, the dependence of political journalism – and campaigns, independent political organizations, and so on – on polls opens a door for the unsavory. Fake polls have started to proliferate online. Their goal is to influence online political betting markets, so that their purveyors can make a quick buck at the expense of those they’ve tricked.
This Article argues that these actions – the creation and promulgation of fake polls to influence betting markets – is a classic case of either commodities fraud, or wire fraud, or both, or conspiracy to commit either. CONT.
Tyler Yeargain, Missouri Law Review
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