Rigged elections have been the norm here in Mexico. The only time the rigging has failed has been when the incumbents have been so outrageously corrupt as to stir a revolution, either at the ballot box or in the streets.

In the last 2 elections in the US, the political machinery has learned a thing or two and has found ways to rig certain critical states to swing close elections. This is what happened here. Despite clear evidence of illegal activity on the part of the party in power, the electoral commission, several of who are up for appointment to positions on the supreme court, found that this did not ‘influence’ the election. So a close election was swung to re-elect the incumbents. This is the new style of fraud. Using MBA’s and analytical computer software the fraud is applied with a scalpel rather than a hammer.