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Questioning If An Election Will Be 'Rigged' Strikes At The Heart Of Democracy (NPR)
NPR ^ | August 7, 2016 | DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN

Posted on 08/07/2016 8:20:36 AM PDT by Drango

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To: Drango

Election fraud perpetrators should be stood against the wall and shot

there is no greater crime against the Republic


21 posted on 08/07/2016 8:40:56 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: Drango
On Dec. 13, 2000, ...Al Gore did one of the most important things that keeps American democracy working: he conceded.

Sorry. this is is far as I got. Algore could have done "one of the most important things that keeps American democracy working": by not trying to steal the election.

22 posted on 08/07/2016 8:41:03 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Former Proud Canadian

They were quoting a WaPo “poll” (Zero Credibility) and their own FOX “poll” which also has zero credibility with me since they started pimping for Clintoon while she goes into her “Where’s Waldo?” mode. FOX used to be on at my house all the time. Now, all I can take is 15 or 20 minutes before I have to turn them off. FOX is the new MSN. (As though we really needed a second MSN).


23 posted on 08/07/2016 8:41:22 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: Drango

Even if the system wasn’t 100% rigged, the plutocracy that runs the world will be telling the president what to do. Just like it did with Bush. Well in his case he was a willing partner. Conservative, republican. democrat, capitalist, communist. It hardly makes a difference. Just names.


24 posted on 08/07/2016 8:41:51 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Nuke Saudi Arabia now)
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To: Drango

Democrats are the party of vote fraud. Yes, they stole the 1960 presidential election, but Nixon decided that it would be harmful to the country to make an issue of it when he couldn’t succeed in overturning the fraud in Cook County, IL.

If NPR truly cared about “the heart of democracy” it would work to end vote fraud rather than whining about Trump’s comments.


25 posted on 08/07/2016 8:44:05 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Democrats are the kings of fraud, but the GOPe does it too when it comes to defeating conservatives, e.g., the recent Mississippi Senate race.

It’s a big gov’t thing — plunder the taxpayers and divide the spoils.


26 posted on 08/07/2016 8:46:08 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Drango

AlGore conceded, yes how many times? Seems he took back the first concession.


27 posted on 08/07/2016 8:47:43 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: Drango

Albore spent weeks challenging and undermining the democratic (small ‘d’) results of the election. It is only when he reached the very end of the legal road with the Supreme Court that he “accepted” the results of the election. So much for caring about citizen respect for democracy. Albore turned it into a Supreme Court decision that he thought he could win, but he lost.


28 posted on 08/07/2016 8:47:50 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Drango

To start with we’re not a democracy.


29 posted on 08/07/2016 8:48:55 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Drango

What the Progressives forget is that America is a representative republic, not a democracy. They know how to rig mob elections.


30 posted on 08/07/2016 8:50:09 AM PDT by buckalfa (Yes I am concerned, therefore I must be a concern troll or at least a negative nellie.)
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To: Drango

I was a democrat for years. I know how they do voter fraud.


31 posted on 08/07/2016 8:50:31 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Tired of 'fake outrage' deployed by democrats and their MSM gimp platoon?" - Kurt Schlichter)
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To: Drango
Odd that she mentions Gore and McCain's concessions, but doesn't mention Nixon's in 1960 after a flurry of pro-Kennedy ballot box stuffing in Chicago.

Trump better have observers in every precinct, watching the transport of every ballot box and the counting of every ballot. And make plans for when the Dems in big cities try to stop them. Election day is not the day to scramble to find lawyers, guns and money when the Dems send in the Black Panthers to deal with anyone interfering with them stealing an election.

32 posted on 08/07/2016 8:51:32 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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To: ealgeone

We’re becoming a dictatorship.


33 posted on 08/07/2016 8:53:22 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MUDDOG

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We need less democracy and less gov’t, and protection of individual rights and property so that the mob can’t confiscate our goods and liberty.
>

Something like a...oh, what do they call it?

Ah! A Constitutional Republic. That’s it.

Maybe we can send the suggestion to the State\Fed for consideration.


34 posted on 08/07/2016 8:53:48 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Drango

The one salient point in this article:

“If the polls in November look like they do now, then I don’t see much of an issue,” Hetherington said. “No one will find credible charges of election fraud if it looks like a blowout in advance.”

Thus the narrative begins. Sanders was just a test subject for the real offensive. No reasonable person could question the results that were decided by the media and government months prior to the election.

Reasonable people don’t believe in collusion between the virginal press, the righteous politicians, and the rational academics. Reasonable people don’t question the ethics of crony businesses. Reasonable people don’t consider the fidelity of the holy banks. Reasonable people don’t ponder the motives of the pristine charitable organizations and NGOs. Reasonable people don’t listen to or read propaganda without understanding the subtext.


35 posted on 08/07/2016 8:53:59 AM PDT by antidisestablishment (If those who defend our freedom do not know liberty, none of us will have either.)
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To: Drango

Simply....no


36 posted on 08/07/2016 8:54:01 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: Drango

Funny, since the released emails from the DNC show that the leadership of the Democrat party RIGGED THE SYSTEM for Hitlery against Bernie.

Add to that the FACT that the entire idea of SUPERDELEGATES in the Democrat party was CREATED after 1972 in ORDER to RIG the system in favor of the party elites’ choice.

A child could see that.... but of course the media doesn’t have the brains of a child.


37 posted on 08/07/2016 8:56:21 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Drango
I was thinking that we could probably weaponize Danielle Kurtzleben by smuggling her into an encampment of sex-starved jihadi ISIS fighters.

Wonder how many would die by throwing up their stomach linings before the rest escaped?

38 posted on 08/07/2016 8:56:34 AM PDT by kiryandil (Hillary Clinton is not sophisticated enough to understand the Bill of Rights, either.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Odd that she mentions Gore and McCain's concessions, but doesn't mention Nixon's in 1960 after a flurry of pro-Kennedy ballot box stuffing in Chicago.

The Left's entire Media strategy is about "Leaving Mitt Out".

Lying by omission is still lying. I actually consider it MORE egregious.

39 posted on 08/07/2016 8:58:25 AM PDT by kiryandil (Hillary Clinton is not sophisticated enough to understand the Bill of Rights, either.)
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To: i_robot73

Bingo!

It’s the transformation of the US into a democracy that has allowed all this stuff to happen.

Democracy is unlimited majority rule. No rights for individuals, no limitation on gov’t power.

That’s why I cringe to see people bemoaning threats to democracy.


40 posted on 08/07/2016 9:02:20 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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