My thoughts on the whole 'rigged election' thing:
I'm an Arizona native, but I currently attend college out of state. For my own convenience, I chose to register in the state that I currently live in, which involved mailing in a form with a photocopy of my passport along with some basic personal information. Easy stuff.
Now, there's actually no way to verify your registration besides going online, but because I have access to a computer and the internet, I could do that. What it showed (when they finally updated the database a month later) was that my registration date was over two weeks later than it was supposed to be, and they disputed the fact that I sent in a form of photo ID. I had to call up the county recorder office, talk to several bureaucrat grunts before I managed to get a supervisor on the phone, and it took an additional week before they updated my registration. The registration date they corrected it to was still incorrect, but it was before the deadline, so I didn't care.
So this morning, I go to my student center to cast my vote, and the guy doing the check-in is not able to find me on the database. After fiddling around with my ID and my registration info for about ten minutes, he sends me over to the provisional ballot desk, where another employee looks me up in the system. She makes several phone calls, runs around the polling area for a couple minutes, and then finally gets me set up with an RFID card to cast my vote. The whole entire process was supposed to take less than 15 minutes (I was second in line at the door) but it ended up lasting the better part of an hour.
Now the reason I'm recounting this story is because if I was some poor black person, working for minimum wage full-time in food service, there is no way that I would have been able to cast my vote. I wouldn't have had the free time to chase down the county recorder office and make sure my registration was correct, I wouldn't have had home internet access to check my registration status every day, I wouldn't have had a smartphone to show the person at the provisional desk that my registration was valid, and I sure as hell wouldn't have been able to stand around there for an entire hour with only a small window of time to vote before my 10-hour work shift.
In other words, all of the actually-existent barriers to voting affect exactly the type of people who would never vote for Annoying Orange in their life. It is not a coincidence that the worst voting turnout rates occur among poor minorities, and it's not because they don't have a perspective on the issues. There is no conspiracy to stop people from voting for Annoying Orange, but rather there's a system in place that actually prevents people from voting against him. What all the evidence points to, including my own personal experiences, is that all the 'rigged elections' talk is just the death throes of a doomed campaign that can't accept the fact that the American public won't elect a tribal, bigoted piece of stuff that has no clue how to be the president. Annoying Orange's constituency will bitch and whine to the very end about how fictitious fraudsters are ruining his chances, but that's just the ethos of his entire campaign - blaming scapegoats for every single problem.
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