Want to know where your state sides on the Apple vs FBI debate? Check its voting record

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by Sindy Cator on March 22, 2016 at 9:33 pm

While the FBI and Apple case is on hiatus until April 5, the public debate rages on about whether Apple should assist the FBI in unlocking the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone. Turns out, it’s pretty easy to find out if your state supports Apple or the FBI: just look at its voting results from the 2012 presidential election. When you lay the two maps on top of one another, there is little variation between republican-supporting ‘red states’ and democrat-supporting ‘blue states.’ What little variation there is mostly comes from swing states, like Iowa, Missouri and Indiana — states that don’t have…