It’s amusing how, when the subject of rigged elections comes up, some people equate “fraud” with “voter fraud”. Wrong. There’s another kind of fraud: Count fraud. If you have count fraud, you don’t even need voter fraud.

Trump is at least partly right about that: There’s no particular reason to believe that the election isn’t rigged, by count fraud. In fact, that’s an understatement: Look at the Harper’s Magazine issues immediately after each of George W. Bush’s elections. There were mountains of evidence of large-scale count fraud.

I’m not talking about voter-intimidation, hanging-chads, or the Supreme Court forbidding a count. I’m referring to evidence of court-fraud. There was plenty of such evidence. That should be enough to put subsequent elections (like the upcoming one) in doubt.

Of course, in general, it might not be possible to get proof of count fraud because: how would you know if the count results aren’t verifiable? The mere fact of an unverifiable vote-count is, by itself, enough to make the election illegitimate. So:

1. Boycott the illegitimate elections.
2. Demand verifiable vote-counting, with gigantic (legal) street demonstrations and marches.

Let all the foreign TV news show our empty boycotted polling-places and gigantic pro-democracy demonstrations all across the country.