Rigging Democracy

• Designating who can vote (suffrage) is one mechanism used to influence election outcomes. (click here for more)
• Registration laws influence election outcomes. (click here for more)
• Ban people from the ballot. (see here for one example)
• Party selection of who can run for elected office is a way to influence election outcomes. (click here for more)
• Mechanisms to remove/prevent people from the electoral process. (click here for an example)
• Ballot access laws influence election outcomes. (click here for more)
• Disqualify political opponents from appearing on ballots. (click here and here more)
• 'Gerrynandering' is a familiar term to those who follow election laws. It is the practice of designating voting boundries geographically to influence election outcomes. (click here for more)
• Joseph Stalin said some version of "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes." (click here for more)
• Various fraudulant measures can be used in elections to gain advantage. (click here for more) A compilation of alleged/suspect 2020 election fraud is here.
• Prevent elections or buy votes. (click here for examples)
• Even if successfully elected, office holders can be removed from office by those who lost. Regime change actions similar to those used against other countries in the past (see here) are now employed domestically. The actions against Donald Trump are good examles of rejecting the will of voters and currupting democracy. (see here and here more)

Also see: How to…Rig Your Rigged Elections

Return to Democracy

How democracy is rigged.

Warnings on democracy.

Democracies fail.

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