DID RUSSIA HACK THE US ELECTION??
From The Telegraph:
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein announced a fundraising effort on Wednesday to pay for recounts in three battleground states.
Ms Stein launched a fundraising page aiming to raise $2.5 million to fund recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in an effort to ensure that the “election results are reliable,” she said in a statement.
“After a divisive and painful presidential race, in which foreign agents hacked into party databases, private email servers, and voter databases in certain states, many Americans are wondering if our election results are reliable.
“That’s why the unexpected results of the election and reported anomalies need to be investigated before the 2016 presidential election is certified. We deserve elections we can trust.”
The announcement comes after it emerged that a group of election lawyers and data experts urged Hillary Clinton to ask for an independent review of the votes in the three key states to ensure a cyberattack was not committed to manipulate the totals.
The activists, among them J Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Centre for Computer Security and Society and voting-rights attorney John Bonifaz, told the Clinton campaign they believe there is a questionable trend of the Democratic candidate performing worse in counties that relied on electronic voting machines compared to paper ballots and optical scanners, according to a “source briefed on the call”.
The computer experts reportedly found that Mrs Clinton received 7 per cent fewer votes in Wisconsin counties that relied on electronic voting machines compared to counties that used optical scanners and ballot papers.
They calculated that if the electronic votes were changed to match the percentages in the rest of the state, she would have received an extra 30,000. The Democratic candidate lost the state, which carries 10 electoral votes, by 27,000.
In the run up to the US election, the White House had expressed concern about potential cyber attacks influencing the election, and the Obama administration accused Russia of attempting to breach voter registration data and of hacking the Democratic National Committee emails.