***AND*** our voting machines were HACKED

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72. just my hypothetical 2 cents' worth

- code could have been inserted in the machines in advance (without any "hacking" on election day) to do something like changing a small percentage of Clinton votes to Johnson or Stein votes, and likely in a way that would be untraceable

- the tabulation of votes would have required the transmission of the raw data from the voting machines to a central point, and the data could have been interfered with somehow during that process...without an actual paper trail, you could likely never prove any malfeasance, especially with the total margin needed to win the electoral vote being so small...just a very small percentage of flipped votes (and again, not even to the Republican side--just swapping some votes to the other candidates would have been enough)

This is not based on any evidence or special knowledge, but it certainly seemed extremely odd that the election results varied from the exit polls as they did.

Of course, with the voter suppression efforts, nothing like these scenarios may have even been needed to get the result that we got out of this ridiculous election. Frankly I had a feeling throughout the whole election cycle that nothing good could come of any of this, no matter the results. Our country is just all kinds of fucked up.