Rolling Stone - This Election Is Being Rigged – But Not by Hillary Clinton

[TomCADem]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/this-election-is-being-rigged-but-not-by-hillary-clinton-w448638

Bias is elevating a process story about emails to the same level as a candidate bragging about sexual assault, and a dozen women coming forward to say it wasn't just idle "locker-room talk." It's the networks devoting three times as much airtime to Clinton's emails than all of the issues at stake in this election combined. It's the fact that the media have spent the final week of an incredibly important election talking about some emails that we know nothing about, other than Hillary Clinton didn't send or receive them. Why is that even news?

The proof is in the pudding: PolitiFact looked at 500 claims made by Clinton and Trump, and rated 51 percent of Trump's claims either "false" or "pants on fire," whereas only 13 percent of Clinton's statements earned those ratings. And yet, a Washington Post/ABC News poll released this week found Trump leading Clinton on who is "honest and trustworthy" by eight percentage points.

Meanwhile, red-state legislators are working hard to suppress the Democratic vote. You want an under-reported email scandal? According to a Reuters report, private emails show Republican officials in North Carolina "lobbied members of at least 17 county election boards to keep early-voting sites open for shorter hours on weekends and in evenings – times that usually see disproportionately high turnout by Democratic voters. ... The officials also urged county election boards to open fewer sites for residents to cast ballots during early." One Republican official recalled what happened when he balked at the plan: "I became a villain ... I got accused of being a traitor and everything else by the Republican Party."

The same thing's been happening in Florida, Ohio and elsewhere. Hell, election officials in Macon-Bibb County, Georgia, tried to move a polling place in a black community to a sheriff's office. Real subtle, guys. And if we really want to talk about rigged elections, all of this was made possible, or at least much easier, by the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act, a long-standing goal of a chief justice appointed by a president who won a half-million fewer votes than his opponent in 2000. Unsurprisingly, early voting in black communities has been sluggish this year, compared with earlier cycles.

[regnaD kciN]

1. Rolling Stones? What tune are they using?

[scscholar]

4. I can't get no satisfaction (ntxt)

[Cha]

2. Yep Rolling Stone gets it good! Thank you!

[voteearlyvoteoften]

5. True that