While the United States keeps a watchful eye on electoral fraud all over the world, it appears to take a much more benign view of ballot rigging here at home.
Every election is fixed to ensure that interlopers are kept out.
There are four prominent candidates running for the presidency. The Commission on Presidential Debates has ruled that to get into the debates a candidate must be able to enjoy at least 15 percent support in the polls. Fifteen percent is well beyond the reach of any politician who lacks the financial resources to buy saturation media coverage the way Ross Perot did in 1992. Moreover, the reliance on opinion polls is absurd. The purpose of any opinion poll is not to elicit information but to pressure people into falling into line.