2006-09-19 05:05:47 · 8 answers · asked by YahooAnswers 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
there are to many people involved to rig an election
2006-09-19 05:11:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
None. It would take a huge massive group of people to
rig an election. Both party watches closely & the media even closer. Local might get away with one every 50 years but the
national elections have been watched for generations.
Whiners want to believe there are rigged elections but they just
lost & can not accept it. Money helps people win or come close - i.e. John Kennedy & John Kerry, but Richard Nixon proved money will not always prevail (he had none). It is a shame that our youth are being taught to blame "riggings" as to why their
canidate loses.
2006-09-19 12:51:28 · answer #2 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In terms of outright vote tampering and fraud? Not likely many, though electronic voting machines that don't leave a paper trail and are easy to tamper with won't help. In terms of elections being decided before they happen? All the time. It's called gerrymandering.
Say your party has enough power to re-draw voting districts. You have information regarding the make-up of districts - which areas traditionally vote which way. You take that information and use it to re-draw districts, concentrating your voting pockets as much as possible while splitting your opponents up into as many tiny chunks across different districts. This practice is why there is barely a contest for many legislative seats. It's pretty much quasi-legal vote rigging
Check gerrymandering on wikipedia for a better description.
2006-09-19 12:23:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe from the first election that George W. Bush was involved in, that it was fixed and rigged. Why did the state where his brother was governor have all the discrepancies? And why didn't any reporter find that suspicious? You know why? Because it was fixed! And by watching Bush and his administration try to control everything, doesn't it all fit in.
2006-09-19 19:00:14 · answer #4 · answered by manyolito 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people have been using lever machines with no paper trail for years and they haven't complained, the only rigging done is that somehow dead people in heavy Democrat districts keep managing to vote Democrat. I wonder how that can be, since they're dead and all......
2006-09-19 14:39:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definately the last 2 presidential elections. The first in FL & the second in Ohio. The next one probably, too, since FL has voting machines with no paper trail.
2006-09-19 12:15:07 · answer #6 · answered by shermynewstart 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Only the ones the Demorats won.
2006-09-19 13:54:02 · answer #7 · answered by Spirit Walker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 predident elections
2006-09-19 12:20:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋