I've never understood former felons' permanent voting disenfranchisement at all, or how it can pass constitutional muster. Once a person has served his (or her) debt to society, they should be able rejoin said society and cast their vote like every other citizen who is of age and who has registered to do so.Felons can be temporarily or permanently banned from voting. — Bitter Crank
. After each census, reapportionment takes place. In order to achieve 1 man/1 vote, legislative districts have to be redrawn, and some states lose, or gain, congressional representation. The party that controls the legislature after the census is in a position to redraw legislative boundaries as it sees fit, except that egregious gerrymandering is liable to result in court challenges. — Bitter Crank
So, are elections rigged, or not? I agree with Trump on this issue: Elections are most definitely rigged. — Bitter Crank
Just out of curiosity... where did this business of "dog whistle" start. — Bitter Crank
Donald Trump thinks the elections are rigged, and he is (accidentally) right — Bitter Crank
The Democrats have done more to deny their own voters a voice by what they did to Bernie.Ironic. Trump claims the elections are rigged (against him) but it is the fact that they are rigged (to sustain a two party system) that has allowed someone so despised as he to have any chance at all of winning the presidency. As many of his voters will be voting against the other (also widely despised) candidate as for his candidacy. It's doubly ironic that most of the rigging is on the conservative side in working to deny likely Democrat voters their suffrage. But this is like Trump's complaints against the media - what he rails against is very often what has got him where he is. — Baden
If you have a good idea as to how to make sure voters are authenticated so that they can't vote more than once, then I'm all ears. I don't see what the big fuss is about in making people identify themselves before voting. Why participate at all if there is no faith in the system? — Harry Hindu
You forget one thing: in politics anything goes. If I can make my opponent even worse than he/she actually is, why not do it?This just proves my point about Hillary: despite decades of scrutiny from the right, all they have to hit her with is fabricated scandals and non-issues. If this person is such a terrible politician and statesman (as the right has been bleating for years), why do conservatives need to constantly lie, distort, and dissemble in order to attack her? Wouldn't her actual words and deeds suffice? — Arkady
It's amusing/depressing that Trump is happy to accept polling results when they break his way, and yet doubts them or rejects them outright when they start trending away from him (the "taxicab fallacy"). It's also ironic that one hears the never-ending drumbeat from the right about how "the media" is against Trump, and yet Fox News has been basically nothing but a free source of good press for him (at least in the general election). Fox News, you will recall, is the most-highly-rated cable news station! It takes some cognitive gymnastics to claim that the media is out to get you when the highest-rated cable news station is in the tank for you.Donald Trump thinks the elections are rigged, and he is (accidentally) right. So who is doing the rigging? — Bitter Crank
So you're saying that in politics people will not use all weapons they have against each other, including propaganda and unfair ones?Ask the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP) and Watergate-disgraced president Richard M. Nixon how well that approach worked. — Bitter Crank
So you're saying that in politics people will not use all weapons they have against each other, including propaganda and unfair ones? — Agustino
Propaganda, I expect, but it shouldn't be presented as "fact". "Unfair" is a bit vague. What is fair and foul? What Nixon & company did was not merely "unfair", it was illegal. What was worse, is that he persisted in his illegality by attempting to cover up the crime. — Bitter Crank
Is it illegal to send covert US foreign policy details via an insecure server to someone's gmail account, who doesn't even have security clearance? — tom
Don't worry: Trump's rational and highly-educated team of poll watchers will ensure a fair election takes place. I can't imagine that causing any problems.According to Pew according to Trump "millions of people are registered to vote who should not be" and also according to trump "Hillary's people are telling people to beat other people up" (not entirely clear what he meant). — VagabondSpectre
I have a tiny bit of experience in high security stuff. — swstephe
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