Archive for the ‘Hoax’ Category

Invalid votes do not cause an election to be invalid

Monday, November 17th, 2008

OBS: This is an automatic Google translation from the original post in Portuguese
It is being spread on the Internet a hoax, an urban legend, this time on the outcome of Brazilian municipal elections and the vote invalid. Says the email:

An example for Brazil
Bom Jesus de Itabapoana - RJ: 89.23% of votes in [...]

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The hoax on Krista Marie and her daughter Natalie

Friday, May 16th, 2008

I received an email on a baby called “Natalie”, who supposedly has brain cancer and would urgently be needing financial help.
The email has a picture of her and a text in Portuguese that would translate like that in English:
Please do not delete it, you don’t need to read this, just forward it
Warm-hearted people wouldn’t delete [...]

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