NYmag: Activists Urge Clinton Campaign to Challenge Election Results in 3 Swing States

[kydo]

I posted this in the 2016 Postmortem. Be sure to go read the whole article. This is not a "OMG she is gonna do this," article. But rather it does layout the facts well and some in her campaign do urge us to call the DoJ and if the line is busy keep calling.

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 they’ve 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 it’s 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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[Maven]

1. This needs to happen.

Something stinks about the way this went down.

K/R

[kydo]

4. This is being picked up by many other sources

I like to look at twitter, not post just look. And there is a lot more talk of rigged election and the popular vote count and the russians etc etc.

I think dems are slowly recovering from the sucker gut punch and are starting to not look at tv news but pay attention to the news and what other people not talking heads are saying. And they are saying the same thing. Which was the same thing I and many of us were saying that horrid night as it was happening.

That SOB! He conned us! He rigged it! Bet the Russians helped! Damn it DU is down! SHIT! FUCK!! No this can't happening! He so rigged this! I am not watching cable news. They suck! And I would have to look at that orange creature ick! That thing is not my president! Oh poor Hillary. She was robbed! She has gone through so much. My heart breaks for her and us. Damn Russians! Stupid FBI! We are so Fucked! California might be nice, maybe they leave USA and they have weed. So move to California if orange man tanks the USA leave the country. Damn it he rigged it! That about right unless you already lived in a blue state?


Now the shock and depression are wearing off.

Oh and I hear the count is 6 EC voters are flipping. Keep calling the DoJ and all other government agencies. You never know, this is not a normal year and it is not over yet. So there might be more surprises for us still yet to come. Lord knows we could sure use one of those miracles here.

[edhopper]

2. Dems will roll over

like they did in 2000

[athena]

3. Everyone should call the DOJ.

This afternoon, Huma Abedin’s sister Heba encouraged her Facebook followers to lobby the Justice Department to audit the 2016 vote. “Call the DOJ…and tell them you want the votes audited,” she wrote. “Even if it’s busy, keep calling.”

[Achilleaze]

5. Yes. For the sake of integrity, these results must be challenged

There is a major freaking twisted electoral scam (R) going down.

Wrong time to get all meek and mild.

America is going down the cesspool drain unless the Dems act now with courage, wisdom and political skill to get to the truth on behalf of the citizens of the USA.

[Hortensis]

6. I would want our side to battle for this if she has a reasonable

chance of winning. It would be wrong to do anything else given what the right is up to.

Btw, I've suspected voting in key districts was tampered with and will continue to no matter how this turns out. Not to steal votes in this existential election would be contrary to the behaviors of dark forces on the right in the past decade.