Talk of ‘rigged’ election is slippery slope to violence

The Sacramento Bee ^ | October 18th, 2016 | The Editorial Board

[Mad Dawgg]

Moynihan was a decent guy sadly his seat in the Senate was taken by the Hildebeast.

[Flick Lives]

People are catching on. Even the people that read this newspaper. The comments at the site are running 100% against their propagandistic editorial.

[AndyTheBear]

Here is how it works:

* A government is needed to keep the peace and defend us...
* So we have a government, but it might be run by people who are incompetent or corrupt and power mad...
* So we have elections. The elections could be corrupted...
* So we have a free press to report corruption and keep the government honest with sunlight, but the press could be corrupted...
* So we have freedom of information and the right to speech and peacefully assemble to air our differences....but the government could ignore, crack down on, and press could marginalize us...
* So we have the right to keep and bear arms...and this is not where anybody wants to go.

But how far down the path they want to go is not up to us regular citizens. But indeed it is a very dangerous thing for the press not to do its job and clean up the elections.

[Stand W]

Talk of ‘rigged’ election is slippery slope to violence

Correction: Institutionalized vote rigging is a superslide to violence.

[virgil]

Voter fraud, GOP offices fire bombed, democrat agents provocateurs. Authorities do nothing. But poll watchers may provoke violence. I think something is wrong if there isn’t violence under those circumstances.

[ballplayer]

You mean the violence fomented by Hillary Clinton by paying mentally ill people,homeless people to start riots at Trump events that you and the rest of the country won’t cover?

[trebb]

Voter fraud is exceedingly rare, as researchers have found over and over. One study, done two years ago by a Loyola Law School professor who specializes in election administration, found just 31 credible claims in more than 1 billion ballots cast over the past 16 years. Because polling places are managed at the local level, “rigging” a national election is nearly impossible. That’s a truth Americans need to hear.

Ironic how they care so much about the truth as far as voter fraud/rigged elections go that they totally ignore that a lot has gone on to prove voter fraud/election rigging....

[norwaypinesavage]

Are these idiots not even aware they are on the editorial board of a NEWSPAPER, for God’s sake? EXPOSING corruption eliminates the violence, it doesn’t CAUSE it. It’s the rigging of elections that causes violence, not the exposing of it. Exposing corruption is what a newspaper is supposed to do.

[Maverick68]

If anyone were to STEAL an election and the powers that be refuse to act, isn’t it our RIGHT to address an attempted coup with violence? Just asking....

[jmaroneps37]

Oh thanks mister media NOW we see violence against Trump supporters is Trump’s fault and we should just forget about O’Keefe video number 2, “Keep walking folks, nothing to see here, move along now.” ha ha ha GFY

[jmaroneps37]

Oh thanks mister media NOW we see violence against Trump supporters is Trump’s fault and we should just forget about O’Keefe video number 2, “Keep walking folks, nothing to see here, move along now.” ha ha ha GFY

[Brooklyn Attitude]

If you look at the Loyola paper referenced in the article you will find that the author uses a VERY narrow definition of Voter Fraud. He only looked at instances where one person pretended to be someone else. From a practical standpoint there are many other types of fraud that individually or together can change the outcome of an election including:

- Stuffing ballot boxes
- Hacking electronic voting machines
- Registering large numbers of illegal voters
- Failing to remove dead/ineligible voters from the roles.
- Suppressing the military vote.

In addition there are also non-traditional methods of rigging an election including:

- Media bias unfairly slandering one candidate while giving another a free pass.
- Burying credible stories of illegal or unethical behavior by a candidate.
- Govt criminally prosecuting or failing to prosecute a candidate because of their party affiliation.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

According to the Bee talking about voter fraud undermines the validity of elections and leads to violence but they have no problem with unsubstantiated allegations of Voter SUPPRESSION made by DemocRATS.

[Caipirabob]

There doesn't have to be any violence provided we all agree that people who participate in voter fraud should be physically damaged beyond recovery. 😜

[polymuser]

Rigged election (by Democrats) — non issue.
Talking about it — bad bad bad!
Our free press has rotted from within, the news media apple barrel is now just pig slop.

[sergeantdave]

Translation: The traitors in the propaganda press are scared sh*tless.

[VRW Conspirator]

Very nice summary.