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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, @09:24PM
The issue is that voters are presented a slate of choices marked "electors for [SPECIFIC NAMES]". If someone is given resources for a specific, identifiable purpose and that person runs off and uses those resources for something else, that's called theft by conversion, if not just straight-up pre-planned fraud.
I know there are cases where electors can weasel-word their way past the elector-election process, but there is a serious issue here (among many, many, many others) if what is presented on the "menu" doesn't match the "ingredients".
Translation: you don't know.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @06:57AM
They're not marked "electors for [SPECIFIC NAME]", they're marked "electors from [political party that won the popular vote]", and its their duty and responsibility to refuse to vote for a candidate if they're utterly incompetent or will damage the country or constitution. Or, in Alexander Hamilton's words, the duty of the electoral college is to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”, to preserve “the sense of the people,” and ensure that a president is chosen “by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice.”