The phrase "attempt to rig a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is trying to manipulate or control a situation, often in a dishonest or unethical manner.
Example: "The investigation revealed that there was an attempt to rig a vote in the recent election."
Alternatives: "try to manipulate a" or "effort to tamper with a".
Each party howls that the other wants to "pack" the courts, but it is Mr Grassley's bid to eliminate three vacancies which Mr Obama would otherwise fill that looks most like an attempt to rig a court in an unashamedly partisan direction.If Republicans filibuster Mr Obama's nominees, a showdown over the filibuster itself will follow.
He said such price-rigging would be "reprehensible" behaviour, although he said: "We don't know if there was an attempt to rig a gilt auction".
In Bulgaria brazen attempts to rig a nuclear-power tender seem to have left politicians helpless.
The effect will be to push up CDS spreads for large firms, raising their cost of borrowing.Critics say the restrictions on credit-default swaps amount to an attempt to rig the market: only those with a rosy enough view of the euro zone to have bought underlying bonds can trade.
Indeed, you could make a decent case that an attempt to rig the 2016 election is underway – one designed to hurt Clinton and help Trump.
The enterprising police commander who made this discovery was chivvied into retirement three months early and the investigation downgraded, giving the impression of a cover-up.Whether or not there was an attempt to rig the election in East Java or something similar is planned nationally the mess highlights the weakness and ineptitude of the independent election commission.
The SNP's leader, Alex Salmond, said the decision was an attempt to rig the election.
The Republicans have denounced the hand counting of votes in selected Democratic precincts as an attempt to rig the results in favor of Vice President Al Gore.
The first left his party following an attempt to rig the selection process to be the Labour candidate for the inaugural London Mayoral elections, winning as an independent in 2000.
By her own admission, she telephoned an election official amid the counting of votes in last year's presidential election, in what could be construed as an attempt to rig the vote.
Mr Ortega, of the left-wing Sandinista movement, is insouciantly presiding over an attempt to rig his country's democracy by excluding parties opposed to him.For this, he can count on the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), the supposedly independent electoral authority over which he has great influence.
