Posted on 11/23/2016 10:20:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
New York magazine is reporting that a group of lawyers and computer scientists is urging Hillary Clinton to challenge the election results in 3 swing states: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
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 they’ve found persuasive evidence that results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked…
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.
According to the story, the academics don’t have any evidence of hacking by any foreign government at this point, just this statistical oddity involving electronic-voting machines. Of course there could be other things that account for the difference in voting patters but since we’re not privy to any of the methodology used to generate these results it’s impossible to judge the quality of the work.
Prior to the election the FBI revealed that foreign hackers had made their way into election systems in at least two states. A Yahoo News story from August reported, “six states and parts of four others (including large swaths of Pennsylvania, a crucial swing state in this year’s race) are more vulnerable because they rely on paperless touchscreen voting, known as DREs or Direct-Recording Electronic voting machines, for which there are no paper ballot backups.”
According to Ballotpedia, Wisconsin uses a mix of paper ballots and Direct-Recording Electronic machines with a paper back-up. That means the electronic results could be tested against the paper back-up. Michigan uses paper ballots so it’s not clear there is a DRE issue in that state. Clinton would need to win all three states in order to overturn the election, though the New York piece points out that this is somewhat complicated by Democratic efforts to round up faithless electors.
The attempt to overturn the results is running out of time. New York reports, “the deadline in Wisconsin to file for a recount is Friday; in Pennsylvania, it’s Monday; and Michigan is next Wednesday.”
This story just went up a short while ago but already it is getting some pushback:
To follow: some *very* quick analysis which suggests the claim here of rigged results in Wisconsin is probably BS: https://t.co/SYlE76bnmQ
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 23, 2016
Run a regression on Wisc. counties with >=50K people, and you find that Clinton improved more in counties with only paper ballots. HOWEVER: pic.twitter.com/4swuU70NaY
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 23, 2016
…the effect COMPLETELY DISAPPEARS once you control for race and education levels, the key factors in predicting vote shifts this year. pic.twitter.com/NYOINx9lEz
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 23, 2016
Maybe a more complicated analysis would reveal something, but usually bad news when a finding can't survive a basic sanity check like this.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 23, 2016
Ooh. A group of lawyers and computer scientists. They’ll get something done, I’m sure.
Won’t happen. Self preservation dictates that she keep a low profile.
Oh brother. These people need psychological help.
Must mean they have figured out how to manufacture the votes they need in those three states. Also, they have only conjecture and no facts, but want to push the idea of an illegitimate election. Based on their “reasoning” we don’t need actual elections but can rely on polls done by the media and poll companies.
I feel bad for Nate Silver.
After giving Trump a 0.8% chance of winning the combination of PA, MI and WI and getting screamed at by Hillary people by being too biased against her....now he says Trump didn’t cheat.
He is about to feel the full wrath of the loony left—for real this time!
“Mr. Trump, will you accept the results of the election?”
Never asked SHrillary.
... perhaps the opposite, maybe there was mischief in the “paper ballots and optical scanners.”
New Report Prompts Call for Democrats to Halt Transfer of Power to Trump Before Dec. 13 Deadline
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/3497473/posts
Anybody pushing Hillary will need to improve his upper body strength.
We have to fight them and fight them and fight them and...
Exactly right. Another attempt to try and deligitimize the election. It’s standard practice of Leftists repeated over and over. Take something clear as day, black and white and inject confusion and doubt and cause the weak among us to go wobbly and create momentum out of absolutely nothing.
I agree. I would keep a low profile too with all the Clinton Foundation, pedeofile, and confidential emails on a private server items.
She was all shocked and horrified that Trump wasn’t going to accept the results. What a hypocrite.
If they try this crap, I think it increases the odds of Trump giving her legal grief.
If the machines were hacked, it was to favor the democrats.
These idiots could be opening a can of worms. Unless they can figure a way to make it work for them, the party machines will shrink from such an effort.
These are the same liberals that were laughing and scoffing at suggestions of vote fraud just three weeks ago.
Must be one of them “late term abortion/election” things. She conceded, move on.
Too bad Chris Wallace didn’t ask Hellary if SHE would accept the results of the election.
Are they going to discount the 3 million illegals votes that obozo told them to do?
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