consider this, blotus was so convinced he was going to lose

[haele]

16. Don't need to hack the voting machines.

Just need to limit who can vote.
There were a lot of reports of long-time registered voters who suddenly came up as ineligible - especially in precincts who got their information from Crosscheck.
Reports of hacks of quite a few State registrar of voter's computer networks indicates to me that there might be voter suppression. It's much easier run an algorithm that flags names in certain precincts where there might be a higher incidence of poverty or where there's a higher concentration of a certain party registration, than flipping votes. Not only that, there's a greater chance that at the moment they show up to vote, voters who find they are not eligible to vote will just leave because either it's already taken too much time to get to the poll, or they become intimidated and give up. Even if they do convince the poll worker and are able to vote by provisional ballot at the site, there's a potential net loss of a significant number of votes cast for a certain candidate when it comes down to the preliminary counts, and frankly, most locations don't count provisional ballots unless one candidate complains after the mail in and official poll ballots are counted.
Clinton probably lost close to 150K votes in critical swing districts just due to voter suppression and Crosscheck fraud forcing provisional voting in those districts.

And voter suppression like that could be brushed off as "just a mistake". They'll do better next time...
After the fact.

Haele