The term 'rigged' has been given different meanings based on who uses it. Bernie Sanders said, “What has upset me, and what I think is – I wouldn’t use the word rigged, because we knew what the words were – but what is really dumb is that you have closed primaries, like in New York state, where three million people who are Democrats or Republicans could not participate, where you have situation where over 400 superdelegates came on board Clinton’s campaign before anybody else was in the race, eight months before the first vote was cast. That’s not rigged. I think it’s just a dumb process which has certainly disadvantaged our campaign.”
The system is rigged--or 'dumb' as Bernie said--in a sense; however, it is very unlikely it could be rigged in the conspiracy theorist way Trump implies it to be. Trump's rigged election conspiracy has many factors, including the media's negative portrayal of him, candidates running against him who are actually working for Hillary, dead voters, "phony" polling, andmore. President Obama and others explain that, "the decentralized nature of our state-by-state system makes the coordinated hijacking of a national election all but impossible. Such a feat would require coordination and conspiracy on a truly massive scale— with so many participants that many would surely be caught in the act" (Mello-Stark, 2016).
Vox. Mello-Stark. Nov 1, 2016. The election can't be 'rigged'--but the voting system has plenty of problems
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