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LiberalLovinLug

(14,173 posts)
1. Whew
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 07:08 PM
Oct 2016

So other than
voting machine hacking,
voter suppression laws like reduced hours and having fewer polling stations especially in high Democrat areas,
gerrymandering,
and calls from Trumplorables to intimidate voters at poll booths

everything is fine.

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)
2. For many of of us, this does not seem to ring true. We just
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 07:17 PM
Oct 2016

read about more voter suppression in Indiana. There were numerous voting irregularities during the primary. I won't rehash the laundry list. Our system is rigged.by both parties and big money is a controlling and corrupting influence.

We are complaining g about the GOP suppressing votes one moment and refuting the other sides assertions that the election is rigged the next.

Foggyhill

(1,060 posts)
4. Right equivalence equivalence... and we wonder why everything
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 07:31 PM
Oct 2016

Is going to pot
So tell me how caucuses are not "rigged" and p'ease bring on direct of the rest or through innuendo, yoûre using the same rhetorical device than Trump

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)
5. No false equivalency. I'll ask. Do you think that republican lawmakers are rigging electionsthrough
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 07:46 PM
Oct 2016

voter suppression ?

Foggyhill

(1,060 posts)
6. You were talking about the primaries, don"t deflect
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 08:04 PM
Oct 2016

That"a where the fade equivalence is

Something wrong , GOP suppression, on one side compared to something that's not

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)
7. No, I don't. The general election will be held in one month.
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 08:13 PM
Oct 2016

The article does not differentiate between types of elections.

I'll look back at Gore v Bush as a case for the G.E.
rigging.
BTW, since you brought it up (the primaries) 50% of Americans think the our presidential nomination process is rigged and 2/3 think the process needs to be changed.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0XO0ZR

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
3. I saw that - but it missed the point
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 07:24 PM
Oct 2016

Trump and company are not claiming the election is rigged in the sense that is addressed in that post.

They are saying it's rigged in the sense that the media is in the tank for Hillary and is therefore covering the election in a way that gives her an unfair advantage.

Although, they do throw in a bit of "voter fraud" with that theory.

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