Hillary Clinton urged to call for election vote recount in key states

[moonshaz]

A growing number of academics and activists are calling for US authorities to fully audit or recount the 2016 presidential election vote in key battleground states, in case the results could have been skewed by foreign hackers

Comments

[oncloud999]

this is going to end up bad... this election has been too divisive.

[nemesid]

Sore loosers, get over it- you lost. What you're trying to push for is a civil war.

[invisiblegirlx]

it's not being a sore "looser" if fraud was committed. especially when your candidate won the popular vote

[nemesid]

Where in Constitution does it say popular vote matters?

[invisiblegirlx]

nobody said it matters but when the candidate who wins doesnt have the popular vote there will always be questions about mandate and legitimacy. there was also strategic campaigns by republican governors to keep democratic voters from the polls or to disqualify their votes. i think its only right in this situation to look at the closer states to make sure there was nothing untoward.

[shortsweetcynic]

i'm...torn.

i mean, every day, this is a horror that manages to refresh itself. i would dearly love for his ticket to not be the one at the inauguration in january.

but if this were to happen, and it WERE to flip back to hillary...rightful or not, my gut feeling is that his supporters would burn this fucking country down. it's bad now (and they fucking WON!) but it could get so, so much worse.

and yet...if something actually did happen that those numbers were tampered with, that needs to be brought to light. NEEDS to.

i don't know. this whole season and year has been such a fucking mess. i was telling my husband yesterday, it's going to be a long-ass four years of waking up and looking at the news wondering what's gone catastrophically off the rails this time.

[eveofrevolution]

[ladycyndra]

Yeah and it makes me sick. Btw, we have a new Russian troll. Who forgot to spray??

[eveofrevolution]

[hudebnik]

I think there might be benefit in calling for a recount or at least a security audit, even if it doesn't flip the Electoral College, just to find out whether there was vote-tampering.

As I posted on Oct. 21,

We know that voting machines can be hacked to produce a total count that doesn't match the actual votes cast (from the documentary "Hacking Democracy"). We know that manual recounts are done (in most places) only when the reported vote total is very close, and even then political appointees may control how thorough the recount is. We know that some jurisdictions in the U.S. use electronic-only voting machines that make a manual recount impossible

[grace_om]

This essentially agrees with the analysis I was hearing on the news this morning. Also agree that the system is vulnerable to that type of fraud and some kind of audit is a good idea.

All the noise about individual voters, resulting in restricting voter ID access, etc. is a smoke screen for voter suppression. Electronic tampering is how it would be done.

[lightframes]

And if your voting machines make manual recounts impossible, you need to pick better voting machines.

I agree... people HAVE to know that's a bad idea.

[blackjedii]

Pfff as if Clinton or the DNC would actually fight for amyrhing come on.