Originally <a href='https://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=27039072'>posted</a> on 06/19/2017:

Quote Originally Posted by rkelly110 View Post
...What other country has a history of messing with elections?
You can't answer that, because there are none...
This is why I generally avoid the stupidity of the SBR political posters.

Even without the facts, the above statement seems so ridiculously naive.

Some posters are dangerously ignorant, or just trolling.

Whatever your case rkelly, here you go...
The U.S. has a long history of attempting to influence presidential elections in other countries – it’s done so as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000, according to a database amassed by political scientist Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon University.

That number doesn’t include military coups and regime change efforts following the election of candidates the U.S. didn’t like, notably those in Iran, Guatemala and Chile. Nor does it include general assistance with the electoral process, such as election monitoring.

Levin defines intervention as “a costly act which is designed to determine the election results [in favor of] one of the two sides.” These acts, carried out in secret two-thirds of the time, include funding the election campaigns of specific parties, disseminating misinformation or propaganda, training locals of only one side in various campaigning or get-out-the-vote techniques, helping one side design their campaign materials, making public pronouncements or threats in favor of or against a candidate, and providing or withdrawing foreign aid.