donald trump and simon cowell give cynthia nixon her award on stage during the 56th annual primetime emmy awards in 2004. | getty by zach montellaro 10/20/16 07:03 am edt the emmys reassured the public that their voting process was fair after hillary clinton brought up a series of years-old tweets from donald trump alleging that the television award show was rigged. <u+201c>according to many, and while nominated, i would have won the emmy many times except for my politics,<u+201d> trump tweeted in 2013 - one of several tweets that stated the television academy, the organization that awards the emmys, was rigging the vote. story continued below which is worse and which is more dishonest <u+2013> the @oscars or the emmys?<u+201d> he tweeted in 2014. clinton referenced the tweets after donald trump refused to say if he would peacefully accept the results of this year<u+2019>s elections, pointing to a long history of trump saying the deck was stacked against him when he was losing. shortly after the debate ended, the television academy tweeted <u+201c>rest assured, the #emmys are not rigged<u+201d> and linked to an infographic that details their voting process. according to the graphic, over 20,000 voting members cast ballots for the emmys online, and the results are independently checked by the accounting firm ernst & young. the television academy wasn<u+2019>t alone in defended the integrity of the event - actress julia louis-dreyfus, who plays former president selina meyer on hbo<u+2019>s hit show veep and who has personally won nine emmys, also tweeted that <u+201c>the emmys are not rigged.<u+201d> by bill scher by joshua zeitz by thomas wright by jack shafer
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