'Daily Show' Points Out How U.S. Elections Are Rigged
The Daily Show host Trevor Noah discussed on Monday’s show how Donald Trump might be on to something with his claims that the U.S. election process is rigged. Noah said, “The more you look at it, the more you see that Donald Trump is right: Elections in America are rigged.”
As examples of how elections are rigged, Noah pointed out that in North Carolina, the federal court ruled new voting laws had intentionally been designed to discriminate against minorities saying, “The new provisions target African-Americans with almost surgical precision.” Noah joked, “They figured out which types of ID Black people were less likely to have and then they made those mandatory for voting because they knew white people were more likely to have those ID’s — like drivers licenses or Panera gift cards.”
Noah also brought up the topic of gerrymandering, the adjustment of voting district boundaries in order to effect the outcome of the election. In 2010 Republicans won the majority of state houses and redrew the voting maps. This helped in 2012, when 33 more Republicans got elected to the House, even though Democrat candidates received 1.1 million more votes. It was also shown how Democrats in Illinois used gerrymandering to maintain a traditionally Hispanic Democratic district’s stranglehold in the area.
And while there will always be concerns about election rigging, the show turned to a quote by Trump to put it all in perspective: “You have been hearing me say it is a rigged system, but now I don’t say it any more because I won, OK. So now I don’t care.”
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