“I do believe that there are elements that will try to rig the election on varying degrees of scale and this will certainly affect the outcome in varying degrees,” said Peter Goldberg, an RNC committeeman from Alaska.

“It is a grave concern on a number of fronts,” said Arizona RNC Committeewoman Lori Klein Corbin....Corbin said she agreed with Trump’s warning earlier this month that Democrats may be intentionally allowing undocumented immigrants into the country to vote in the election – though they are no substantiated claims that this is occurring. “This is happening all over the U.S. and we don't even know how many illegals are here presently that will take advantage of these loopholes,” she said.

One thing most RNC members could agree on was their belief that the national media are in league with Democrats in attempting to manipulate voters.

“It depends on what you mean by ‘rigged.’ Our nominee is experiencing an unprecedented onslaught by most of the media in the country,” said Miriam Hellreich, an RNC committeewoman from Hawaii. “Fox News seems to be the only news outlet reporting on the cloud of deception, distraction and disregard for the truth when it comes to Hillary Clinton's record and her fitness for the Presidency.”

“Should Hillary get ‘elected’ she is immediately delegitimized,” said California RNC Committeeman Shawn Steel in an email. “The 1% of Wall Street Bankers, Clinton Machine and [mainstream media] including your employer, Politico, is part of a massive Left Wing Conspiracy to rig this election.”

These charges do not reflect reality.

News 21, a national investigative reporting project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, found 150 alleged cases of double voting, 56 cases of noncitizens voting, and 10 cases of voter impersonation across all elections from 2000 to 2011. Many of these allegations never led to charges, while others were acquitted or dismissed.

Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School and an expert on voter fraud, found an even smaller number: 31 credible incidents out of more than 1 billion votes cast from 2000 to 2014.

Put it in another way: More people are struck by lightning or attacked by sharks than are accused of voter fraud.

cbelt3 wrote:
Elections ARE being rigged. To deny poor urban voters the right to vote. Or threaten them that if they vote they will be put in jail. One of those arrogant billboards was right outside my office in 2014. Bastiches.

All the 'vote the graveyard' references are back to the bad old political machine days of the 1930's through 1960's. That crap has been stopped many decades ago. Most of the people who benefited from that sort of nonsense are long dead.