Don’t Believe Those Who Say This Election Can Be Rigged

I'm pretty much staying away from the election. My thoughts lean towards how are we going to move forward after the election.  One way is by accepting the results.

I'm not sure why, but Trump wants us to believe that there is or is going to be widespread voter fraud and/or that "the election is rigged". This claim is nonsense. There are even those who were for  Bernie Sanders who think the primaries were rigged against him. This is also nonsense.

The fact of the matter is, despite what you've been told, you're vote kind of doesn't count. Elections are generally determined by hundreds of thousands or millions of votes. That means there would have to be hundreds of thousand or millions of individual cases of voter fraud to change the course of an election. It's just not a numerical possibility with the protections we have in place.

I have a great site you can go to if you still think voter fraud is a "thing".  The truth is most cases of documented voter fraud aren't even about repeat voting, but dumb stuff like voting in the wrong precinct.

I'd like to think that after this election we could all shake hands, say "good fight" and move forward. For some reason Trump is setting us up for discord, and for what reason I don't know. It's certainly not for the health of the nation.

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