eh
it's not necessary
when the powers that be
can game the system
without rigging
see wolin's book
on 'managed democracy'
titled 'democracy incorporated'
written around the bush jr years
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691178486/democracy-incorporated
Ah, okay, so we were seeing the same words/phrases differently, as to me "game the system" and "rigging" are different ways of referring to the same phenomenon that renders the voting of an electorate superfluous, i.e. renders a genuine electorate an electorate in name only.