Computer Scientists And the US VOTE COUNTING PROCESS

A team of computer scientists allege they’ve found evidence that voting machines were hacked for Donald Trump’s benefit in three major swing states.
John Bonifaz — a respected voting rights attorney — and University of Michigan Center for Computer Science and Security director J. Alex Halderman are leading a team that’s lobbying Hillary Clinton’s campaign team, asking them to dispute election results in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. New York Magazine said their efforts to reach Bonifaz and Halderman were unsuccessful, as the two are keeping their efforts to dispute vote tallies private for now.
Bonifaz and Halderman’s findings show that in Wisconsin, which carries 10 electoral votes, Clinton received 7 percent fewer votes in counties that count ballots electronically compared to counties in the Badger State that use paper ballots, meaning the former Secretary of State lost out on potentially 30,000 votes. She narrowly lost Wisconsin to Donald Trump by a mere 27,000 votes. Discrepancies in Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes) and Michigan (16 electoral votes) are not immediately known as of this writing, though the team of scientists alleges that those two states have worrying discrepancies as well. All three states voted for Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012. Had Hillary Clinton won those three states, she would have the 270 electoral college votes necessary to become President-elect.

The suggestion that voting machines could be hacked isn’t all that far-fetched. Earlier this year, Politico reported on Princeton professor Andrew Appel demonstrating how to easily hack a voting machine by simply picking its lock with a screwdriver, taking out the four ROM chips installed in the machine, and replacing it with chips carrying firmware that subtly alters the election in favor of one candidate in a way that would prove undetectable by most election officials. The entire hack was completed in just seven minutes.
However, the Clinton campaign is running out of time to contest election results in those three states. Wisconsin’s deadline to file for a recount is this coming Friday. The campaign has until Monday to challenge Pennsylvania’s election results, and next Wednesday to demand a recount in Michigan. Clinton lost Pennsylvania by fewer than 70,000 votes out of nearly 6 million ballots cast, and lost Michigan by roughly 11,000 votes out of almost 5 million ballots cast.
New York Magazine reports that even though there may be circumstantial evidence to challenge election results, outgoing President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are asking for a seamless transition of power to Donald Trump. A Clinton challenge appears unlikely as of this writing.