On the same day that it was announced that Hillary Clinton was leading Donald Trump on the popular vote by 2 million votes, or 1.5%, people are now calling for Hillary Clinton to call for a recount in three key battleground states.
Why? Professor Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, is part of a group that has been sifting through the results from Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, and claim that the results from the states may have been manipulated or hacked.
Along with John Bonifaz, founder of the National Voting Rights Institute, Halderman conducted a statistical analysis of the vote. According to their findings, Clinton received 7% fewer votes in counties that exclusively used electronic voting machines when compared to counties that use harder-to-manipulate paper ballots and optical scanners.
Halderman believes that Clinton may have been denied as many as 30,000 votes, which could have cost her the presidency considering she lost Wisconsin by only 27,000. A shift of 55,000 votes across two states would give Clinton the presidency.
