Quote (excellence @ 20 Oct 2016 17:43)
2000 election: Al Gore (D) - Refuses to concede election until 'it is ensured all votes, by that I mean votes that will get me into a winning tally, are counted, cuz for my voters, they got screwed over. Ignore all the other ones that didn't get counted for W they had their shot at voting'
2000 interview: Senator-elect (C)linton (D) - The Electoral College is anachronistic cuz its 200 years old and "I hope no one is ever in doubt again about whether their vote counts."
2002 fundraiser: Senator (C)linton (D) - 'Bush was selected not elected"
2004 election: John Kerry (D) - thinks Bush rigged Ohio, has nightmares about this for years. Democrats hold out until 2005 to officialyl confirm a W re-election.
2016 primaries: Bernie Sanders (I running for D) - "the system is rigged"
2016 election: Democrats - "There is no such thing as rigging elections"
Pretty fair points.
The Supreme Court selected our president in 2000. If there would have been a Liberal majority on the court, they probably would have ruled that it was constitutional in that case to use different counting standards in different counties, and Gore likely had more votes in Florida. That's not rigging, though, that's a partisan SCOTUS decision. All of that aside, he had more popular votes, and that's undisputed.
The 2016 primaries were "rigged", even though Hillary Clinton did indeed receive more votes. Wikileaks proved collusion between the Clinton campaign and the DNC, but whether that affected the end result of the election is unknown (HRC very likely would have won, but the principle of it all still should matter to us).
There is such a thing as "rigging" an election, but do you think it is going to happen across all or most of the 50 states, including Red states with Red Governors election officers, this election in order to prevent Trump from going to the White House?
What if Clinton beats Trump by 10 million votes and 7 to 8% of the popular vote? Do you think it would be rigged enough to say it changed the outcome of the election?
Just a point of order, the media being on the side of Clinton doesn't mean the election is rigged. An election being rigged means voter fraud on massive scales, vote manipulation, or something along those lines. My guess is that Trump is going to lose by a big enough margin that not even rigging in some counties of some states (which I doubt will even happen) will be enough to change the outcome