Who talks about rigged elections?

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

Interesting and worrisome:

The first major test of Trump’s inflammatory language about a stolen election will come on Election Day itself. Trump has been encouraging his supporters, who are heavily white and non-urban, to “go around and watch other polling places.” He has specifically told his supporters to watch polling places in urban areas; the racial subtext isn’t exactly subtle.

“I hear these horror shows, and we have to make sure that this election is not stolen from us and is not taken away from us,” he said at one rally in Pennsylvania. “And everybody knows what I’m talking about.”

Basically, Trump is encouraging his voters, already anxious about a possibly “rigged” election, to go out to polling places full of non-Trump voters and serve as amateur election police. These people can’t go into polling places, legally speaking. But they can congregate around polling places, showing up and harassing voters waiting in line.

It’s a situation you can easily imagine escalating out of control.

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    http://www.vox.com/world/2016/10/26/13412050/donald-trump-rigged-elections-violence
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