Alwaght- United States Republican party presidential nomination front-runner Donald Trump says the electoral process is riddled with rigging as while some enraged Republicans have burnt their registration cards.
This came after another Republican contender Ted Cruz received all the Colorado state delegates without a popular vote.
Instead of a statewide primary, Colorado Republicans elected their delegates at a state convention on Saturday, following the precinct caucuses on March 1. The change, adopted last August by the state’s party leadership, put the selection process in the hands of “party insiders and activists” while leaving some 90 percent of Colorado’s million-plus Republicans on the sidelines.
“What kind of a system is this?” Trump told Fox News on Monday. “Now, I’m an outsider, and I came into the system and I’m winning the votes by millions of votes. But the system is rigged. It’s crooked.”
Trump accused “phony politicians” of stealing the vote from the people of Colorado and called the process “totally unfair.”
"Now they're trying to pick off those delegates one by one," Trump said. "That's not the way democracy is supposed to work. They offer them trips, they offer them all sorts of things and you're allowed to do that. You can buy all these votes."
Cruz and his backers in the Republican establishment have shrugged off the criticism as Trump’s sour grapes.
Elsewhere almost 100 “Democracy Spring” protesters have been arrested on the steps of the US Capitol. Thousands of activists arrived in Washington DC, after a 10-day, 140-mile (225km) march from Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell, to protest the role of money in politics.
Campaign director Kai Newkirk says their goal is “to claim the democracy we were promised”, various advocacy groups plan to hold a “mass sit-in” over the next eight days in the hope of persuading Congress to tackle “corruption of big money in politics and ensure free and fair elections.”
