Donald Trump Is Elected President
I'm not a conspiracy theorist at all. But HN has <i>story after story</i> about how vulnerable voting machines are: <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?utm_source=opensearch&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=opensearch&query=voting%20machines&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?utm_source=opensearch&utm_medium=sea...</a> The more I look into the issue the more horrified I am. One place had voting machines that ran windows XP and sent votes over wifi, and were hacked with a default administrator password. This computerphile video goes into a number of problems with the concept: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI</a><p>The fact that the polls were off by such a huge amount is concerning to me. States that weren't supposed to be even close somehow ended up going for Trump. It's known that Russia supported Donald Trump's campaign and had targeted voting systems, which is terrifying. Overall the election seems to be very close in terms of popular vote, and many swing states were won by very small margins or just a few counties. A small amount of fraud targeted in just the right places could perhaps have changed the outcome.<p>How concerned should I be about this? The fact that the election wasn't close <i>in terms of electoral votes</i> is comforting (if you are rigging an election, it's best to try not to overdo it and draw suspicion.) It would be nice to know that results are consistent across states and counties that use different kinds of voting machines or paper ballots. I don't know if that has been tested yet.