Elections are ‘not going to be rigged,’ Ohio’s secretary of state says

As Mook was speaking, the campaign sent out an announcement that first lady Michelle Obama would be speaking in Phoenix on Thursday. Sen. Ohio? Florida? Iowa? Arizona?

He let loose again Monday at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin. So it’s more believable than usual that a small percentage of the electorate isn’t being honest – perhaps because they aren’t being honest with themselves. Trying to twist the results in a bunch of different precincts run by different authorities would be monstrously hard. He says he is a victim of conspiracies, portrays himself as a martyr to the cause of the right wing, and is stoking anger in advance of what may be a defeat on November 8. Mebane added. “That’s not gonna happen”. Ashby walks through the checks and balances in place, highlighting the fact that the election is broadly distributed across states, counties and precincts and that the actual mechanics of running the election are executed by ordinary citizens.

The spokeswoman for Colorado’s Republican secretary of state offered a strong rebuttal to Donald Trump’s claims that there is voter fraud occurring in what Trump has called a “rigged” election.

“I think we should probably take Trump at his word that he is going to continue the torrent of personal abuse in this debate”, David Birdsell, Dean of the Austin Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, said at a session by the New York Foreign Press Centre on Monday on what to expect in the final debate.

Back in June, the head of the pro-Clinton superPAC Priorities USA Action, Guy Cecil, said, “We must not just defeat Trump”.

Trump has been escalating dark warnings that the election will be rigged in Clinton’s favor, which Mook said is a sign that Trump “knows he’s losing and he’s trying to blame that on the system”.

Republicans have already experienced the paralyzing effect of Trump stirring up questions about a president’s legitimacy. It works very well.

Donald Trump is denying allegations of sexual assault and calls them a “coordinated and vicious attack” from the media and Hillary Clinton campaign.

Multiple other secretaries of state have likewise asserted that the elections in their states will not be rigged. “Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson, considered the alternative to Clinton or Trump, is not catching fire in the Sunshine State”. If it’s not Wikileaks, then the conspiracy theorists would have you believe that it will likely be revelation about Hillary Clinton’s health or her husband that will provide a surprise in the next few weeks and a boost for Trump in the polls. “No one will find credible charges of election fraud if it looks like a blowout in advance”.

Organization. By all accounts, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party have a large advantage in field operations over the Trump campaign and the Republican Party.

It’s true that some states will be close.

Democrats need to pick up roughly 30 seats to win House control and five seats – or four if they retain the White House – for a majority in the Senate.

The courts have also largely found there is little documented evidence of voter fraud.

Pence said voters have a clear choice in this election. Specifically: 31 incidents out of 1 billion votes cast.

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic contender for the United States presidency, has started to reap multiple years of efforts made by her party to target voters and register them.

“Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day”.

Trump’s pronouncements imply that the voting system is rigged on a massive scale against his candidacy.

Furthermore, as election lawyer Chris Ashby pointed out on CNN Monday afternoon (after an epic tweetstorm over the weekend), individual instances of voter fraud aren’t exactly “rigging” anyway.

One reason that Clinton aides are particularly high on Arizona: Mormon voters. Supporters say such laws are needed to combat voter fraud, while critics argue the laws disproportionately affect minorities and the poor who may face challenges obtaining a government-issued photo ID. She leads by 5.5 points in a head-to-head race, according to RealClearPolitics, and by 6.3 points in the four-way.

Other types of fraud are possible, such as voting machines being intentionally manipulated to report false results. “You have observers from the parties”, Joyce told The Enterprise.

Meanwhile, Trump’s supporters are taking his “rigged” system rhetoric and accusations of lying by the media to their implied conclusion: revolt.