Election Rigging: Safeguarding the Vote
How do politicians and their supporters manipulate polls?
The Real Story · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
Donald Trump says the US presidential election is rigged. To what extent are his complaints justified and just how do politicians and their supporters manipulate the results of elections in their favour? In this week’s Newshour Extra, Owen Bennett Jones and his guests consider the ways elections around the world can be tampered with and the means by which this these manipulations can be minimised.
Photo: Polling station in British General Election Credit: Getty Images