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Electrons are charged and thus interact with electromagnetic fields (light), so they don’t fit the requirement for “dark” matter. Huge amounts of unaccounted for matter being in the form of electrons would also skew the charge balance of the universe locally and globally into the negative, which conflicts with observations that the universe has a neutral net charge.


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