Trump's talk of 'rigged' election alarms Florida election officials

Donald Trump's talk of a "rigged election" has dismayed Florida elections officials and prompted President Barack Obama to call the GOP presidential nominee's allegations "unprecedented" in U.S. history.

"It's frustrating to hear that. We're doing everything we can to build up voter confidence," said Brian Corley, supervisor of elections in Pasco County "To cast aspersions like that, when you don't know the facts, is disappointing."

Corley is one of 67 supervisors who run elections in Florida's counties. Three weeks before Election Day, the supervisors are working 14-hour days training poll workers, testing voting equipment, distributing mail ballots, verifying voter registration forms and fielding questions from voters.

At a poll worker training session in Dade City, Corley said, a worker asked if indeed the outcome was rigged as Trump says it is.

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