[EL] If elections can be rigged...

[Benjamin Barr]

Why do you suppose democratic operatives have bragged
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDc8PVCvfKs> about having bussed people
for 50 years to engage in voter fraud?

Forward,

Benjamin Barr

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Schultz, David A. <dschultz at hamline.edu>
wrote:

> If elections can be rigged, either party can do it.  The secretary of
> state (or commonwealth) is the chief election officer in each state and
> they would have the ability to manipulate the election system to the
> benefit of their favored candidate.  Of the 50 states, 27 are Republican.
> Among the 11 swing states that are Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Nevada,
> New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina,  Pennsylvania, Virginia, and
> Wisconsin, only four, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and
> Wisconsin, are controlled by Democrats.  Republicans control nearly
> two-thirds of the secretaries of state in the critical swing states and
> presumably would not have an incentive to rig the election in favor of
> Clinton.
>
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