How Media should counter Donald Trump's "RIGGED" Lie

[bucolic_frolic]

[Jarqui]

1. I worry about this rhetoric - not just because of potential violence

but some of the Senate races could go weird on these machines and then the GOP say "the fix isn't in. You told us elections can't be rigged!"

This is the most messed up election ever (except Florida in 2000 ...)

[Festivito]

2. Good, but, it's not a voter fraud problem, it's the ELECTION FRAUD!

What is wrong with these people at the M$M?

[yuiyoshida]

3. For sure When Hillary Wins, He will scream and shout that he's had the

Election stolen from him and will probably incite Violence in the forms of Riots, looting, and trashing of public property. I am pretty much expecting it, and wonder if the cops will Allow it or try and actually arrest people involved.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. All this noise about rigging elections

is coming from one loudmouth

make me nervous he could be the one doing the rigging

Why has be concentrated so much on Pennsylvania ... it would only
benefit him if several other states fell into place and they are not there

[Overseas]

5. Actually, if corporate media covered GOP voter suppression more, including CrossCheck,

That might help the public see that it's Trump's party, the GOP, doing the rigging.

If corporate media discussed the GOP's tool CrossCheck, in which they drop voters with same first & last names off the voter rolls and don't go on to Level 2 cross checking of middle names and Level 3 Social Security, that would help the public understand which party has been actively engineering the vote results in their favor.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-gops-stealth-war-against-voters-w435890

On its surface, Crosscheck seems quite reasonable. Twenty-eight participating states share their voter lists and, in the name of dispassionate, race-blind Big Data, seek to ensure the rolls are up to date. To make sure the system finds suspect voters, Crosscheck supposedly matches first, middle and last name, plus birth date, and provides the last four digits of a Social Security number for additional verification.
In reality, however, there have been signs that the program doesn't operate as advertised. Some states have dropped out of Crosscheck, citing problems with its methodology, as Oregon's secretary of state recently explained: "We left [Crosscheck] because the data we received was unreliable."

In our effort to report on the program, we contacted every state for their Crosscheck list. But because voting twice is a felony, state after state told us their lists of suspects were part of a criminal investigation and, as such, confidential. Then we got a break. A clerk in Virginia sent us its Crosscheck list of suspects, which a letter from the state later said was done "in error."

The Virginia list was a revelation. In all, 342,556 names were listed as apparently registered to vote in both Virginia and another state as of January 2014. Thirteen percent of the people on the Crosscheck list, already flagged as inactive voters, were almost immediately removed, meaning a stunning 41,637 names were "canceled" from voter rolls, most of them just before Election Day.