Jonathan Chait on "rigged elections" in this country. Actually, I don't think it's that horrendous that Trump refused to say whether or not he would respect the outcome of the election. True, there is a fever dream out there among some that any election that doesn't go their way is a fraud, a cheat, a crime, a theft of democracy, etc. Seeing a lot of lawn signs and bumper stickers and knowing how all your friends voted is, after all, an infallible way of knowing how the entire country voted.
But if you want to increase some folks' belief that their votes are not honestly counted, just spread the notion that they have to the accept the outcome without question, no matter what evidence might turn up of incompetence or skullduggery. Trump was wrong to say that he's sure it's rigged and that a million dead people are already in line to cast ballots or whatever he said. He's especially wrong when he defines "rigging" to include the media being against him since, first of all, it isn't as unanimous as he makes it out to be and secondly, to the extent it is, it's his own fault for attacking them, blatantly manipulating them and giving their fact-checkers so many fibs to itemize.
Also, lots of newspapers saying he'd make a dreadful president is legal. And not the same thing as deliberately miscounting ballots or manufacturing spurious votes.
Still, I think it's okay to wait until you see if there's any actual evidence of voter fraud before you promise to say the outcome in legit. What if Hillary somehow gets eighty zillion votes in Alaska? And anyway, Trump promising to accept the outcome of the voting is pointless since if it's closer than the polls now suggest, he won't validate it no matter what he says now. And he may not no matter what the official total says. This is Donald Trump, remember.