No one expects fair elections any more. There's significant evidence of straight-up riggage. We're still supposed to assume that elections are fair, though.

I've been thinking from a conspiracist point-of-view though about the outcome of this crapfest. I'd imagine a Trump victory would be sufficient cover to bring on the worst neoconservative excesses, blame "the people" for electing Trump, and further train Americans to accept rotten, horrible centrism out of fear. Either way, the powers that be have America on lockdown... Trump and Clinton are good friends and connected to the same shady actors (look up Jeff Epstein).