Still, Mr. Mastro's dark talk of electoral conspiracies remains fantastical.
Charged with electoral falsification and conspiracy to commit a crime while PA to former board member Carlos Martínez Albornoz, a close ally of Florentino Pérez and his preferred electoral candidate Juan Miguel Villar Mir, Bermúdez has refused to aid the investigation.
Buhari, who hails from northern Nigeria, replaced Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria's first president from the Delta region, and some Delta militants believe Jonathan's electoral defeat was a conspiracy against the Delta, Crisis Group says.
"It is not about what officials in the United States government knew, said, or did after the attack, or about the ongoing controversy over talking points, electoral politics, and alleged conspiracies and cover-ups.
No evidence supports the claim of widespread fraud and the decentralized electoral college makes such a conspiracy functionally impossible – but the claim gives Trump something to blame failure on besides himself.
(The elevation of Russian efforts at sowing electoral chaos to a political conspiracy of airport novel dimensions is a convenient alibi in this).
And Berlusconi has spent all his electoral campaigns speaking of the double conspiracy of the judges and the communists.
The numbers are brutal – last week was not about media conspiracies or quirks of our electoral process.
Mr. Santorum, having fallen far from his moment in the electoral sun, has found a new platform at the conspiracy-mongering right-wing Web site WorldNetDaily.
Obama sceptics who are starting to earn the online sobriquet "Birthers", a take-off on the 9/11 conspiracy "Truthers"—are calling up members of the electoral college and members of Congress in a last-ditch effort to flip the election.
