“Methods included the dissemination of misinformation or propaganda, training one side in campaigning techniques, making threats against a particular candidate, threatening to withdraw foreign aid, and bank-rolling a particular candidate among others. In 59% of the cases examined, the candidate that had received US ‘assistance’ emerged victorious, though Levin estimated that the average effect of ‘partisan electoral interventions’ only swayed the vote by an average of 3%.”
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