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Except for a few people who had to quit their jobs and clear favoritism from the DNC chief which is supposed to be neutral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_

Except for a few people who had to quit their jobs and clear favoritism from the DNC chief which is supposed to be neutral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Committee_email_leak#Debbie_Wasserman_Schultz.27s_emails https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Commi...

ceejayoz 10y ago
Which is, again, not evidence that anything got rigged. The RNC had a similar anti-Trump preference. There's similarly no evidence they rigged anything against him.
- dpweb 10y ago
  There is proof that the RNC did not rig the elections against Trump, he won. That's impossible if it was rigged. While there may not be proof that the DNC rigged it against Sanders, that doesn't prove it wasn't rigged. It only proves that no evidence has come to light that it was rigged.
  - ceejayoz 10y ago
    > That's impossible if it was rigged. That's simply false. The accusations against the DNC of "rigging" primarily revolve around bias (revealed in the email dumps), not actual electoral fraud. The RNC was almost certainly biased in a similar (likely more intense) manner against Trump. It's also entirely possible to rig an election unsuccessfully.
  - krapp 10y ago
    >There is proof that the RNC did not rig the elections against Trump, he won. That's impossible if it was rigged. And yet Trump has accused the RNC process of being rigged many times. Strange how the current narrative seems to be that only the DNC is exceptionally corrupt, to the point of rigging an election, and possibly having Seth Rich killed as if the Democratic party was literally a crime syndicate. There really isn't proof of anything, either way, other than "rigged elections" being the current political accusation du jour.
  - 7Z7 10y ago
    >It only proves that no evidence has come to light that it was rigged. That is all that anyone is really arguing here, contrary to this assertion: >..just when Wikileaks released info that the DNC primaries were rigged
- aljones 10y ago
  It is disappointing to see simple statements of facts down voted.
  - zzalpha 10y ago
    I wouldn't get too hung up on it. I've found, on HN, downvote abuse usually gets reversed over time.
    - Practicality 10y ago
      Agreed. Looks like it already has.

ceejayoz 10y ago

Which is, again, not evidence that anything got rigged. The RNC had a similar anti-Trump preference. There's similarly no evidence they rigged anything against him.

dpweb 10y ago
There is proof that the RNC did not rig the elections against Trump, he won. That's impossible if it was rigged. While there may not be proof that the DNC rigged it against Sanders, that doesn't prove it wasn't rigged. It only proves that no evidence has come to light that it was rigged.
- ceejayoz 10y ago
  > That's impossible if it was rigged. That's simply false. The accusations against the DNC of "rigging" primarily revolve around bias (revealed in the email dumps), not actual electoral fraud. The RNC was almost certainly biased in a similar (likely more intense) manner against Trump. It's also entirely possible to rig an election unsuccessfully.
- krapp 10y ago
  >There is proof that the RNC did not rig the elections against Trump, he won. That's impossible if it was rigged. And yet Trump has accused the RNC process of being rigged many times. Strange how the current narrative seems to be that only the DNC is exceptionally corrupt, to the point of rigging an election, and possibly having Seth Rich killed as if the Democratic party was literally a crime syndicate. There really isn't proof of anything, either way, other than "rigged elections" being the current political accusation du jour.
- 7Z7 10y ago
  >It only proves that no evidence has come to light that it was rigged. That is all that anyone is really arguing here, contrary to this assertion: >..just when Wikileaks released info that the DNC primaries were rigged
aljones 10y ago
It is disappointing to see simple statements of facts down voted.
- zzalpha 10y ago
  I wouldn't get too hung up on it. I've found, on HN, downvote abuse usually gets reversed over time.
  - Practicality 10y ago
    Agreed. Looks like it already has.