Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Why Election Officials Say Rigging a National Election is Unlikely

Donald Trump continued to insist Monday that there is "large scale voter fraud" happening in the 2016 presidential election. At a rally in Wisconsin, he claimed that undocumented immigrants and deceased voters might cast votes that tilt the election.

The "rigged" assertion is one that his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, delicately addressed Monday in a way that would take the threat of election rigging seriously without repeating Trump's baseless claims, encouraging voters in Ohio to "do all you can to respectfully participate in the process and ensure the outcome" is one "we can all be proud of."

But it's not the message Pence and other Trump supporters were sending out after several days that saw the GOP nominee loudly proclaim that the election is being "rigged" against him. Their message has been that it's the media that is tipping the scales against Trump. 

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