Great article by Victoria Collier on occupying rigged elections. Counting the ways:
Corporate personhood and the legal determination that money equals speech.
Corporate campaign financing and lobbying; billions to buy our elected representatives.
Corporate restriction of candidate access to the media and to participation in vital debates.
Corporate media exit polling, which often alters results to manufacture a false "red shift" of rightward-moving electoral outcomes.
Manipulation of electoral structures and mechanisms
Partisan redistricting, which re-draws electoral district maps that favor a particular party.
Voter ID laws that disenfranchise young, poor and minority voters.
Fraudulent purging of voter rolls, including "caging" - removing a voter from the rolls or discarding their vote based on the return of direct mail to their listed address, a practice found to be used fraudulently and with racial bias, making it illegal under the Voting Rights Act.
Disenfranchisement of felons, many poor, black or Hispanic, and convicted on drug offenses.
The centralized rigging of computerized voting machines.
Courtesy of Black Box Voting
Election workers hand-count paper ballots in Switzerland.
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