Election Legitimacy Quotes
He had won the previous election but the old ruler and dictator, Robert Mugabe, refused to relinquish power. After massive economic boycotts that hurt the nation badly, Tsvangirai and Mugabe agreed to a power sharing model where Tsvangirai would be the prime minister but Mugabe would be president with the military, police, and justice departments reporting directly to the President, so Tsvangirai ended up as no more than a figure head. He and his followers reasoned that at the next election Mugabe would be ousted. But Mugabe with the police and military did not allow Tsvangirai to campaign in the rural areas where Mugabe had most of his voting strength. And then on the day of the election, Mugabe’s henchmen disenfranchised over 1 million voters in the cities where Tsvangirai had his voting strength. So Tsvangirai could not improve in the country side and his vote count in the cities was much less than previously, so Mugabe claimed to have won the election.
The Republican Presidential Candidate in the Election of 2016, Donal;d Trump, when with only a few weeks to go before Election Day, and the polls indicated that he was substantially behind, began to give speeches like this one that included many statements that the Election was rigged against him. He presented no evidence at all, and even could not specify who was doing the rigging or how they were doing it. However, many of his followers, who tend to believe many political conspiracy theories, started to make plans for continual action after the election if Trump[ loses. For some unstable followers—all candidates for President have some—they were already planning methods of resisting if Hillary Clinton should win. To make matters worse Trump had encouraged his supporters to take extra legal action to prevent Hillary Clinton from destroying the country as they ave known it. He also announced that he would not necessarily accept the election results if Clinton won. He even threatened to have her jailed when he won the Presidency. Chertoff, a fellow Republican, was very familiar with unstable people and their oft times dangerous behavior to “protect” them, their family and the nation from some conspiracy or another. Chertoff (See Quotation 643701) and many other Republican leaders tried to persuade Clinton to refrain from such demography, but Trump was one of those people who tended not to listen to advisors or colleagues. He continued on his dangerous rhetorical path.
