Or, more likely, Trump sounding off about election rigging puts potential election riggers on notice and lets them know if try it they'll be caught in a recount

Or, more likely, Trump sounding off about election rigging puts potential election riggers on notice and lets them know if try it they'll be caught in a recount. That hasn't stopped claims of up to three million illegal immigrants voting in the presidential election [1]. We know of course there's some illegal immigrant voting (no voter ID laws in some states + lots of illegal immigrants in those states + some very big motivation to vote = yes, of course they'll vote). We just don't know how much. Is it closer to 3 million illegal immigrant votes, or closer to only 30,000 votes? Trump warning about rigging won't prevent illegal immigrants from going to the polls organically. However, it does put a damper on any potential plans the DNC might've had to have voters drive to critical districts and place votes there, as they've supposedly done in the past [2]. That said, I have a hard time believing the DNC could mobilize enough voters to really change the polls, even targeting key swing counties in key battleground states. Far more likely are rigged machines, like those encountered in early reports in Texas [3]. Of course, anything is possible - Trump could've done some rigging himself! But normally it would be counterproductive to seed the idea in everyone's minds that an election is rigged if you intend to rig it. Just because you won doesn't mean the meme goes away. You just create problems for yourself after you steal the election. Far better to play it like Hillary Clinton and calmly dismiss any talk of rigging: "Oh, posh, there won't be any rigging. Don't be silly!" Also, as Clinton so aptly pointed out in the third debate, Trump has a tendency to accuse anything he might not win of being rigged (like the Emmys). This is more a general strategy of his than anything else. It's analogous to how ball players and coaches yell at referees that their play calling is atrocious and one-sided, in the hope of influencing things to go their way. In this case, Trump was likely whipping up his base + aiming to discourage any possible / prospective plans to rig things on the other side. [1] http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/24630-vote-fraud-monitoring-group-says-three-million-noncitizens-voted-in-presidential-election http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/24630-... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDc8PVCvfKs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDc8PVCvfKs [3] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-25/texas-rigged-first-reports-voting-machines-switching-votes-hillary-texas http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-25/texas-rigged-first-...