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What happens if neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton receive enough electoral votes for an outright win? After all, it's possible, but unlikely. The Atlantic concocted a lengthy potential scenario for the election of 1980, in which an independent upstart snags a significant portion of the electoral votes, and the case is sent to the House of Representatives under a little-used statute, where it becomes a legitimate Constitutional crisis.
Oct 28, 2016You know it’s happening but it’s almost impossible to prove. It’s all over the place.
↩︎ The Wall Street Journal
Dead people "voting" has been an American election year bugbear since the 1870s, and yet there's zero evidence to show it has ever fraudulently happened. When it does happen, it's usually a clerical error.
Oct 17, 2016To 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.
↩︎ Extra Newsfeed
Oct 17, 2016The election proved to be the longest, closest, most hostile, and most controversial—up to that time—in the history of the United States.
↩︎ The Miller Center at the University of Virginia
Oct 17, 2016I 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’?
↩︎ Politico
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, 2016The 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.
↩︎ Harper's
