Progressive Francesca Hong was seen as a front-runner in the primary to be the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin governor, but went on to lose.
Median Strategies, which billed itself as a trustworthy, non-partisan polling company, projected that Ms Hong had a more than 20-point lead over moderate David Crowley.
However, on Aug 11, she narrowly lost to Mr Crowley, handing establishment Democrats a win following a wave of victories by Left-wing candidates.
Median Strategies has now admitted the polling data were faked and part of a “short-term social experiment”, following a report by The Los Angeles Times.
This isn’t about free speech. This is about selling information. Someone paid for this poll, and they didn’t get what they paid for, which is relatively accurate information (polls are never 100% accurate, but 20% would be a crazy margin of error). That’s what the fraud is. Like if someone paid you to photograph a dog show, but instead of the dogs, you only took photos of the humans in attendance.