Don’t count her out just yet!
According to New York Magazine, a group of top computer scientists are urging Hillary Clinton‘s campaign to call for a recount of vote totals in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania!
On a call last Thursday, the experts told Clinton’s top aides they believe to have found evidence that vote totals in three states could have been manipulated or hacked — or as Donald Trump would say├óΓé¼┬ª RIGGED!
The scientists presented their findings to the Clinton campaign, which included a questionable trend of the Democratic nominee performing worse in counties that relied on electronic voting machines over paper ballots and optical scanners.
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While no evidence of hacking was found, the group informed campaign chairman John Podesta that Clinton received 7% fewer votes in counties relying on electronic voting machines, which needs to be looked at by an independent investigation.
Though it appears independent investigations on the questionable voting results have already begun…
Freelance journalist Dan Solomon discovered Outagamie County, Wisconsin released an official vote tally Tuesday morning after it was found more votes were tallied than ballots were actually cast.
And surprise, surprise — the recount results show the extra ballots consisted of votes exclusively for Trump!
Solomon shared the info on his Twitter, explaining:
Okay, this is very significant. Outagamie County released the official vote tally at 10:30am CT, the discrepancy below no longer exists. 1/x https://t.co/xUBawpb7h3
— dan solo (@dansolomon) November 22, 2016
You can see the Grand Chute 1-3 results here. All 1126 extra votes were for Trump. Clinton’s total is the same. 2/x https://t.co/vTzHV13YlZ pic.twitter.com/F5mbogodoV
— dan solo (@dansolomon) November 22, 2016
Same deal in Hortonville. Trump’s number down by 400+ votes, Clinton’s unchanged. Ballots cast now matches votes counted. 3/x pic.twitter.com/65lsNVMn6x
— dan solo (@dansolomon) November 22, 2016
What this means is that Trump’s margin of victory in one WI county with fewer than 100,000 voters is now down by 1,500 votes, about 1.5% 4/x
— dan solo (@dansolomon) November 22, 2016
This is significant a state that he won by around 22,000 votes in the initial count. But it only matters if Clinton calls for recount. 5/x
— dan solo (@dansolomon) November 22, 2016
To be clear: Certified results in just ONE WI county bring Trump’s margin of victory down almost 7%. We don’t know what about others. 6/x
— dan solo (@dansolomon) November 22, 2016
We don’t know why the initial tally had more votes tallied than ballots cast, but in this county, that’s now been corrected. 7/x
— dan solo (@dansolomon) November 22, 2016
After a full recount, Outagamie County may end up an outlier. We don’t know enough yet. But the margin is small and getting smaller. 8/x
— dan solo (@dansolomon) November 22, 2016
This only matters if Clinton asks for a recount. She has to decide to do that by tomorrow. Her campaign has given no indication it will. 9/9
— dan solo (@dansolomon) November 22, 2016
(Also, just to be clear, we don├óΓé¼Γäót know the “why” here, just that the official count is different from the unofficial one we had yesterday.)
— dan solo (@dansolomon) November 22, 2016
According to Hortonville Village Clerk-Treasurer Lynn Mischker, the discrepancies in the unofficial election results were due to human error while keying in the numbers on the calculator. In a statement, she said:
“In order to give election returns to the Outagamie County Clerk’s office as quickly as possible the Chief Inspector added together the votes from the election machine tapes. An error was made while keying the numbers on the calculator during this process resulting in an incorrect number of votes reported on Election night.”
Still, many critics feel a recount needs to be looked into — however, the Clinton camp is running out of time to challenge the election.
According to reports, the deadline to file a recount in Wisconsin is Friday; in Pennsylvania it’s Monday; and Michigan is next Wednesday. Get on that now, girl!
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[Image via Johnny Lewis/WENN.]
