'Rigging' US election easier said than done, experts say

Republican candidate Donald Trump has made the insistent claim that the US presidential elections are being "rigged," but experts say massive voter fraud is highly unlikely in a system as decentralized as the United States. "There are a lot of safeguards in place that would preclude that from happening, from federal laws to local and state laws as well," said Jo-Renee Formicola, a political scientist at Seton Hall University. The US election system is far from perfect, as illustrated by the imbroglio over the vote count in Florida during the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.

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