It’s a long shot but given the strangeness of the outcome of this election, one where the popular vote winner, Clinton, may get close to 3 million more votes than the Electoral College winner. It would give her the 3rd largest total of votes in history. (only Obama got more in his two runs).
I doubt if the Clinton campaign will pursue it and pay for the recounts of the actual paper ballots but maybe one of those billionaires would pony up given the importance. It is not paranoid to consider that our elections could have been hacked. Below is part of an article from Reuters. Maybe Kos would be interested in pushing out a petition. Also, here is a similar story from New York Magazine.
Last Thursday, the activists held a conference call with Clinton campaign
A group of computer scientists and election lawyers reportedly urged Hillary Clinton's campaign to call for a recount of the votes in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. Voting-rights attorney John Bonifaz and J. Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society contended in private that they believe they found evidence that the votes in these three crucial states were manipulated or hacked. Among their findings was the fact that Clinton got 7 percent fewer votes in Wisconsin counties that relied on electronic voting machines compared to counties with scanners and paper ballots. It is unclear if the Clinton campaign will pursue this avenue.
Update- The reporter for the New York Magazine story was on Lawrence O’Donnell tonight and he said that the Clinton campaign is listening and looking at the evidence. No decision to pursue, or not to, has been made.
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