U.S. Officials Defend Integrity of Vote, Despite Hacking Fears
Source: NYTimes
"WASHINGTON The Obama administration said on Friday that despite Russian attempts to undermine the presidential election, it has concluded that the results accurately reflect the will of the American people.
The statement came as liberal opponents of Donald J. Trump, some citing fears of vote hacking, are seeking recounts in three states Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania where his margin of victory was extremely thin.
A drive by Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, for recounts in those states had brought in more than 5 million by midday on Friday, her campaign said, and had increased its goal to 7 million. She filed for a recount in Wisconsin on Friday, about an hour before the deadline.
In its statement, the administration said, The Kremlin probably expected that publicity surrounding the disclosures that followed the Russian government-directed compromises of emails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations, would raise questions about the integrity of the election process that could have undermined the legitimacy of the president-elect.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/us/politics/hacking-russia-election-fears-barack-obama-donald-trump.html
Did it really reflect the "will of the people"
Hillary won by over two million votes!!!!!!!!!!!
and why does he feel he needs to say sometthing?
Why doesn't he say something about the Comey and the FBI?
Why doesn't he pardon Don Siegelman?
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...to guarantee the integrity of the vote?
1) you can be damn sure the administration knows more about the russian hacking than it is letting on.
2) it would be perfectly appropriate for the dept of justice to investigate claims of voting irregularities PROMPTLY, yet they appear to be leaving it to private citizens.
3) most likely, they are refusing to engage any questions about vote integrity for political reasons (not wanting to appear to be "sore losers"
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4) you admit the election might be proved to have been tampered with, but you're willing to have trump remain president as long as there are sanctions. Whose going to put those sanctions into place...trump?
in order to keep the government working properly.
Ya, Trump isnt in my top 5 billion pick for president either but on the other hand its looking more and more like he is going to be president 
............sorry where was I? Oh, yea. Anyway as I was saying it looks like he is going to be president so Obama is simply doing what past presidents have done which is to try and make it an orderly transition.
If they had uncovered major hacking by the Russians though I suspect that there would have been an announcement of such but that doesnt mean something fishy didnt happen.
After all the GOP does have a history rigging with gerrymandering states and passing laws that are designed to put as many hurdles as possible in front of voters who might tend to vote for Democrats so it wouldnt surprise me if we learned that there was also a coordinated effort on their part to hide or conceal a massive number of Clinton votes in order to insure a Trump victory.
Official claim America greatest country on earth 
