In the award-winning TV drama, comedy and unintended horror show, “Rigged: The Election Everyone is Hate-Watching,” the excitement continues with California’s Democratic primary election on Tuesday, June 7. As we wait with bated breath, let’s count down some of the most memorable allegations of election fraud from this campaign season — from headline-making Arizona and New York, to one humble yet fierce Chicago woman, to, well, whatever it was that happened at the Nevada convention.
Yes, indeed, folks, this election has been an eventful one. Cries of “Voter suppression” from the liberal-liberal media may, in fact, be well-founded. Yet, this all somehow reeks, not of foul play or literal bull shit, but of needless, factional division caused by an inattention to the bureaucratic incompetence, and the political system that legitimizes it, that have undermined the election process for everyone.
So, I ask you this, fellow, free-thinking citizen of the greatest democracy in the world: What is behind all the discrepancies and allegations? Is it voter fraud? Or, perhaps, a combination of technical issues, bad decision-making, high pressure and cynical scrutiny in an emotionally-charged election, and a voting system with holes that have yet to be addressed by thorough legislative action? Or, voter fraud?
6. Iowa
Iowa is one of several states that has a caucus. (For those of you who don't know, I am referring not to an adorable desert succulent, but rather to a long and complicated process by which delegates are chosen.) However, the Iowa Democratic caucus was more child’s play than anything. Six deadlocked precincts had to decide by coin toss (yeah, you read that right) which delegates would go on to the county conventions, with the chances of winning all of the coin tosses being 64 to one.
And hard-hearted Hillary, our beloved champion, the Chosen One, leader of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm, miraculously won all six.
The gods have spoken.
5. Kentucky
Across 31 counties, phones rang off the hook as 76 reports of election fraud poured in — broken voting machines, campaign materials within 100 miles of a polling place, votes mysteriously disappearing — with most of the munchkin fingers pointing at the Wicked Witch of the West herself. (Clinton must have bewitched those faulty machines or something.) In a primary race tighter than John Oliver’s anus, the results came in at Clinton: 46.8 percent and Sanders: 46.3 percent, with each winning an equal number of delegates, so, wait, what was the fuss about again?
4. Illinois
Chicagoans were out for blood. In a routine audit, 29 votes for Sanders were apparently erased, while 49 votes for Clinton were added to match the hand-counted tally with machine-counted votes. Kind of like when you’re almost a 34D, if you just stuff some extra toilet paper into the cups of your bra. It’s basically a perfect fit, and nobody’ll ever know.
Watch below to see the complaint in real-time (starts at about 24:00), as this brave woman puts on her best “I’d-like-to-speak-to-the-manager” voice to protest this grave injustice.
3. Nevada
Like Iowa, Nevada’s got a caucus. (And an actual cactus or two, as well. It’s Nevada.) But, the 16-hour convention ended in an uproar when a motion to recount delegates became dust in the wind. At around the 4:00 mark of this video, Sanders supporters are basically busting veins to get their voices heard.
It would appear that Nevada State Democratic Chair Roberta Lange, under the influence of about six energy drinks and the 40-odd motivational cat posters that litter her bedroom walls, must have deluded herself into thinking she alone could run the entire show. "Voters? What voters?"
2. New York, “the (Brooklyn voter) purge”
It was as if a potent vanishing spell had been cast in Brooklyn: 126,000 names disappeared from the voting rolls without a trace. Most of the names belonged to people who moved out of Brooklyn or, well, died, but for the several thousand eligible Brooklyn Democrats, it must have been quite a shock to discover that, to the Board of Elections, they did not actually exist.
Of course, chaos continued to ensue across New York City – fire, destruction, a huge monster-gorilla found on top of the Empire State, again. Some of the complaints filed are briefed here in NYC comptroller Scott Stringer’s letter to the Board of Elections (proudly printed on 100 percent recycled paper):
- Voters claim their registration was inaccurately changed, never updated, or disappeared completely.
- Voters being sent notices of the primary being in September, not April.
- A suspicious spider-like figure spotted swinging from buildings on 47th St.
- Understaffed polling places and inadequate worker training.
Due to this primary's high rating on a scale ranging from Whiny-Berniecrat-Millennial-Bull to Oh-Shit-It's-Legit, the New York Attorney General opened an investigation into the affair.
1. Arizona: "Mistakes were made."
The Arizona primary was such an unmitigated disaster that M. Night Shyamalan wants to make a movie about it. It was the high point. The voter suppression to suppress all voter suppressions, the climax of all this excitement made Iowa and Nevada look like mere foreplay. The video below says it all.
So, what in the name of ‘Murrica happened here? Let’s start with Maricopa County. Using data from the 2012 primary, county recorder Helen Purcell made the decision to cut the number of polling locations from 200 to 60, which explains why the poll lines more closely resembled women’s bathroom lines at a nightclub than anything else.
Voter complaints from all over the state were unleashed through the floodgates, as well. “I’m a registered Democrat but was forced to cast a provisional ballot that wasn’t counted!” “I live in one of the many low-income areas that got their polling location closed down!” “Purcell was able to cut them because of a 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act that got rid of requiring state officials to acquire preclearance before changing voting procedures!”
Silly, routine stuff like that.
*These are ordered on a subjective scale of “least” to “most” legit.


























