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

[kydo]

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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[Blanks]

1. I don't know how you'd find proof of hacking...

Isn't all that proprietary and kept under lock and key?

[Ford_Prefect]

4. Most states have rules about preserving the voting record in some form so it can be recounted.

The form of that record varies form state to state. Recounting the vote can take several forms as well as we learned in Florida in 2000.

[LisaM]

2. This is Clinton's call, not the White House's

I don't think it's fair of them to ask her to let them focus on a smooth transition and ignore this - if her team thinks there's enough evidence to move.

[Feeling the Bern]

3. Opposite were the case. . .they would be all over the courts. Look at that slime McCrory in NC

If we do. . .can't you just accept the result, sore losers!

No challenge, it makes us look weak as Hell.

[LisaM]

5. Yep. To be fair, I don't KNOW that the White House said this...

It's just implied in the article.

[kydo]

8. Well no matter if he said that, remember he has to publicly, to maintain a common courtesy tradition

and be non partisan and unbiased.

Privately we have no idea.

But publicly whether he said it or not, President Obama always take the high road and that is what he also has to say.

[LisaM]

9. I don't think it's necessarily the high road at this point.

A lot of people don't want to be abandoned to the clutches of this lunatic. The high road is not always the most tempered road.

[BainsBane]

6. It's really about the voters

more than the candidate, but I believe state laws only allow candidates to challenge votes.

[Liberalynn]

7. Don't know if it means anything but

Jennifer Granholm retweeted this.

[-Steph-]

10. Everyone should call the DOJ and request an audit of the votes. 202-353-1555

[shireen]

11. Someone needs to start a petition

I bet the response would be tremendous.

[Bob41213]

12. Her chance of this doing any good are almost non existent...

She'd need to flip all 3 states, there's no proof, it's over. She's lucky she didn't lose Wisconsin by more (look at how Feingold did).

I'm sure in a few days after the deadlines to challenge have passed these articles are going to change to getting electors to flip. That's also going nowhere.