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Activists Urge Clinton Campaign to Challenge Election Results in 3 Swing States
By Gabriel Sherman
Hillary Clinton is being urged by a group of prominent computer scientists and election lawyers to call for a recount in three swing states won by Donald Trump, New York has learned. The group, which includes voting-rights attorney John Bonifaz and J. Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, believes theyve found persuasive evidence that results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked. The group is so far not speaking on the record about their findings and is focused on lobbying the Clinton team in private.
Last Thursday, the activists held a conference call with Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and campaign general counsel Marc Elias to make their case, according to a source briefed on the call. The academics presented findings showing that in Wisconsin, Clinton received 7 percent fewer votes in counties that relied on electronic-voting machines compared with counties that used optical scanners and paper ballots. Based on this statistical analysis, Clinton may have been denied as many as 30,000 votes; she lost Wisconsin by 27,000. While its important to note the group has not found proof of hacking or manipulation, they are arguing to the campaign that the suspicious pattern merits an independent review especially in light of the fact that the Obama White House has accused the Russian government of hacking the Democratic National Committee.
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Blanks
(4,835 posts)Isn't all that proprietary and kept under lock and key?
Ford_Prefect
(7,919 posts)The form of that record varies form state to state. Recounting the vote can take several forms as well as we learned in Florida in 2000.
LisaM
(27,830 posts)I don't think it's fair of them to ask her to let them focus on a smooth transition and ignore this - if her team thinks there's enough evidence to move.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)If we do. . .can't you just accept the result, sore losers!
No challenge, it makes us look weak as Hell.
LisaM
(27,830 posts)It's just implied in the article.
kydo
(2,679 posts)and be non partisan and unbiased.
Privately we have no idea.
But publicly whether he said it or not, President Obama always take the high road and that is what he also has to say.
LisaM
(27,830 posts)A lot of people don't want to be abandoned to the clutches of this lunatic. The high road is not always the most tempered road.
BainsBane
(53,066 posts)more than the candidate, but I believe state laws only allow candidates to challenge votes.
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)Jennifer Granholm retweeted this.
-Steph-
(409 posts)shireen
(8,333 posts)I bet the response would be tremendous.
Bob41213
(491 posts)She'd need to flip all 3 states, there's no proof, it's over. She's lucky she didn't lose Wisconsin by more (look at how Feingold did).
I'm sure in a few days after the deadlines to challenge have passed these articles are going to change to getting electors to flip. That's also going nowhere.