posted October 22, 2016 08:59 AM
Thanks Novabronte!We know there are poor souls who are desolated by Trump's refusal to accept the results of the coming election...before election day..November 8th. How un-Democratic of Trump, The Destroyer of American Democracy!
I didn't hear any of them whining when Algore challenged the results of the election...AFTER THE ELECTION OF 2000.
But, there's been talk about election rigging for many years. The large dead vote turning out for JFK in Chicago and helping elect him. More people voting in some districts than there were residents in the voting district.
But, here's the establishment Globalist leftist, Barack, talking about vote rigging in 2008. Obama seems to subscribe to the election theory that "it doesn't matter whom you vote for, as long as we get to COUNT the votes".
Obama Warned of Rigged Elections Back in 2008
Daniel Pickert
At a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton on Thursday in Miami Gardens, Fla., President Obama condemned Donald Trump’s “rigged election” claims, describing these remarks as “dangerous.”
“When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people’s minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines our democracy,” he said.
“When you suggest rigging or fraud without a shred of evidence, when last night at the debate, Trump becomes the first major party nominee in American history to suggest that he will not concede despite losing…that is not a joking matter,” Obama added.
Trump said at the third presidential debate that he would keep the United States “in suspense” as to whether he would accept the election results. Later, at a campaign rally, he promised in a jesting manner that he would accept the results “if I win” as the crowd roared.
But despite condemning Trump for suggesting an election can be rigged, here is a clip of then-candidate Barack Obama in 2008 warning about voter fraud and suggesting Republicans could try to sway the election in their favor.
“Well, I tell you what it helps in Ohio, that we got Democrats in charge of the machines,” Obama said regarding the threat of election-rigging.
He continued, “Whenever people are in power, they have this tendency to try to tilt things in their direction. That’s why we’ve got to have, I believe, a voting rights division in the Justice Department that is nonpartisan, and that is serious about investigating cases of voter fraud.”
“That’s why we need paper trails on these new electronic machines so that you actually have something that you can hang on to after you’ve punched that letter—make sure it hasn’t been hacked into,” he added, admitting that even Democrats have "monkeyed around" with election results:
"I want to be honest, it’s not as if it’s just Republicans who have monkeyed around with elections in the past. Sometimes, Democrats have, too."
http://www.mrctv.org/blog/obama-speaks-rigged-elections-2008