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The Real Story: Election Rigging: Safeguarding the Vote

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Election Rigging: Safeguarding the Vote

28/10/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - The Real Story, Election Rigging: Safeguarding the Vote

How do politicians and their supporters manipulate polls?

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

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