BIZARRE VOTE THEORY EMERGES Billionaire George Soros linked to fake US election ‘vote rigging’ plot to help Hillary Clinton win race to the White House

Scam theory has keyboard warriors in a flap over nonsense allegations that businessman is helping tamper with voting machines

• Neal Baker

• 7 Nov 2016, 0:07Updated: 7 Nov 2016, 3:22

THIS is the billionaire businessman at the centre of a conspiracy theory accusing him of RIGGING the US election in favour of Hillary Clinton.

George Soros is known as "The Man Who Broke The Bank of England" after pocketing a cool £800million during the 1992 Black Wednesday banking crash.

Most recently he cleverly invested in gold just before the Brexit vote triggered its value to rocket.

But now a roundly debunked conspiracy theory suggesting he held secret talks with the Clinton campaign to fix voting machines has sent keyboard warriors into a fit.

The Daily Star reports the rumour first emerged when a fake Wikileaks email between Hillary Clinton's team and UK company Smartmatic was shared on social media.

it alleged to show secret talks being held over "pre-programming of machines" and featured intriguing code phrases like "the dogs are loose".

The Hungarian-American billionaire was dragged into the fray as the dodgy email said a meeting would take place with him to facilitate vote rigging.

It was from this thin-air claim that a huge conspiracy theory began sweeping the internet.

More than 120,000 people have signed a petition calling for voting machines "owned by George Soros" to be removed before Tuesday's

Smartmatic has been quick to put a lid on the spurious claims.

In a statement it said: "George Soros does not have and has never had any ownership stake in Smartmatic.

“Smartmatic will not be deploying its technology in any U.S. county for the upcoming 2016 U.S. Presidential elections.”

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2129559/george-soros-us-election-vote-rigging-plot-to-help-hillary-clinton-win-race-to-the-white-house/