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CNN Wire reports via KTLA TV in Los Angeles
Hillary Clinton's campaign is being urged by a number of top computer scientists to call for a recount of vote totals in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
[...] The computer scientists believe they have found evidence that vote totals in the three states could have been manipulated or hacked and presented their findings to top Clinton aides [on November 17].
The scientists, among them J. Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, told the Clinton campaign they believe there is a questionable trend of Clinton performing worse in counties that relied on electronic voting machines compared to paper ballots and optical scanners.
[...] [It was noted that] Clinton received 7 percent fewer votes in counties that relied on electronic voting machines, which the group said could have been hacked.
Their group told Podesta and Elias that while they had not found any evidence of hacking, the pattern needs to be looked at by an independent review.
[...] A former Clinton aide declined to respond to questions about whether they will request an audit based on the findings.
Additionally, at least three electors have pledged to not vote for Trump and to seek a "reasonable Republican alternative for president through Electoral College" according to a [November 16 statement] from a group called the Hamilton Electors, which represents them.
"The Founding Fathers created the Electoral College as the last line of defense", one elector, Michael Baca, said in a statement, "and I think we must do all that we can to ensure that we have a reasonable Republican candidate who shares our American values."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 25 2016, @12:41AM
>>among them J. Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society
I've seen this guy's name and title about 3 dozen times in the last 48 hours. I think it's the 3rd time on this site alone. They always write out his full extended title. Makes it sound more official, even though he has no especial knowledge of elections or voting fraud. He just noticed that one number is different from another.
Attn media: just like all of you were dead wrong when predicting a Hillary landslide, you still won't win on this last desperate gamble.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 25 2016, @12:49AM
He's written articles/made presentations about other country's electronic voting systems, so he's not a total schlub.
And if he can draw enough ire about electronic voting systems so they are scraped, he will have done some good.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 25 2016, @02:28AM
Nope, he obviously has no knowledge of election fraud
https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/dcvoting-fc12.pdf [jhalderm.com] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.05646v2.pdf [arxiv.org] document him actually being able to rig multiple real elections both in the U.S. and other countries.
He actually is one of the most knowledgable people about voting fraud and he's been researching it for over a decade. He's also the discoverer of logjam, DROWN and other TLS vulnerabilities.
Maybe you should do some research before you spout useless shit about muh liberal media.