Voting booths, 1966. Credit: Clackamas County Historical Society.

To rig an election, you would need (1) technological capabilities that exist only in Mission Impossible movies, plus (2) the cooperation of the Republicans and Democrats who are serving as the polling place’s election officials, plus (3) the blind eyes of the partisan pollwatchers who are standing over their shoulders, plus (4) the cooperation of another set of Republicans and Democrats — the officials at the post-elections canvass, plus (5) the blind eyes of the canvass watchers, too. 

FYI the election is not rigged
↩︎ Extra Newsfeed
Oct 17, 2016

I can’t see the fever swamp, alt-reality media universe on the right learning the lessons of this. Can you see Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham saying, ‘OK, sorry, we screwed up’?

Trump's conspiracy-theorist, group-thinking supporters are unlikely to accept defeat in November.
↩︎ Politico
Oct 17, 2016

America has been "influencing" election results around the world for centuries.

It's true! A brief list, with some recent examples:

Honduras, where a failure by Hillary Clinton's State Department to condemn a violent coup d'état legitimized it.

Iran, where the US launched its own coup in 1953 against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq.

Haiti, where the US regularly installs puppet governments and otherwise intervenes in elections.

Chile, where the CIA admitted to kidnapping a top general for refusing to prevent Salvador Allende from taking power.

Indonesia, where the US, with the UK and Australia, was found complicit in the mass killing of communists after the Community Party was offered proportional representation in the parliament.

Oct 17, 2016

The old American virtues have already been eaten away by cosmopolitans and intellectuals; the old competitive capitalism has been gradually undermined by socialistic and communistic schemers; the old national security and independence have been destroyed by treasonous plots, having as their most powerful agents not merely outsiders and foreigners as of old but major statesmen who are at the very centers of American power. 

Richard Hofstadter on the "paranoid style of American politics," from 1964.
↩︎ Harper's
Oct 17, 2016
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