This makes sense. Clinton owes not only her own voters but also Trump's voters the truth of this election. Nothing should be covered up, the nation should not be defrauded again like with Gore. So, whatever results from these recounts will strengthen whoever winds up being inaugurated president whether that is Clinton, or Trump, or Ryan or Romney or McCain or whoever. That Putin has corrupted our electoral system is not in doubt at all. What is in doubt is how much he has corrupted our electoral system through Fake news and electronic voter fraud in many states?
So, whoever gets inaugurated as president I think we need to have more confidence than we do now in the election results.
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Clinton campaign will take part in efforts in key states
Clinton campaign: We are taking part in the recount
Story highlights
- This is the most detailed Clinton campaign response
- No evidence of hacking has been found, the campaign said
Washington (CNN)Hillary
Clinton's campaign said Saturday it will take part in efforts to push
for recounts in several key states, joining with Green Party candidate
Jill Stein, who has raised millions of dollars to have votes counted
again in Wisconsin.
But, in a
post on Medium, Marc Elias, the campaign's counsel, said the campaign's
own investigation has not uncovered any evidence of hacking of voting
systems.
In
the campaign's most detailed comments to date on the recount, Elias
wrote that while the campaign was not going to contest the results
itself, it has decided now to take part in the effort to "ensure that it
is fair to all sides."
Green Party officials filed Friday for a recount in Wisconsin after reports of voting discrepancies.
Wisconsin
Green Party co-chairman George Martin said that the party was seeking a
"reconciliation of paper records" -- a request that would go one step
further than a simple recount, which is expected to begin next week, and
that he hopes will spur an investigation into the integrity of the
state's voting system.
"This is a process, a first step to examine whether our electoral democracy is working," Martin said.
Elias
said the campaign had been quietly investigating accusations for a
while and had received hundreds of requests that it do so.
"Because
we had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside
attempts to alter the voting technology, we had not planned to exercise
this option ourselves, but now that a recount has been initiated in
Wisconsin, we intend to participate in order to ensure the process
proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides," Elias wrote on Medium.
"If
Jill Stein follows through as she has promised and pursues recounts in
Pennsylvania and Michigan, we will take the same approach in those
states as well," he added.
Brian
Fallon, spokesman for the Clinton campaign, said the team would not have
sought the recount on its own and that they see no evidence of
tampering so far.
"We note we are
guarding our prerogatives now that someone else has launched a recount.
Not sure what you could point to to suggest there is anything here that
calls the results into question," he told CNN.
In
addition to Donald Trump's total combined margin of victory in
Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania being only about 107,000 votes --
by contrast, the Florida margin in Bush-Gore was 537 ballots -- Elias
said concerns about Russia's interference in the election continue to
raise concerns.
"This election
cycle was unique in the degree of foreign interference witnessed
throughout the campaign: the U.S. government concluded that Russian
state actors were behind the hacks of the Democratic National Committee
and the personal email accounts of Hillary for America campaign
officials, and just yesterday, the Washington Post reported that the
Russian government was behind much of the "fake news" propaganda that
circulated online in the closing weeks of the election," he wrote.
A senior administration official said in a statement that there is no evidence of any hacking.
"The
federal government did not observe any increased level of malicious
cyber activity aimed at disrupting our electoral process on Election
Day," the official said. "As we have noted before, we remained confident
in the overall integrity of electoral infrastructure, a confidence that
was borne out on Election Day. As a result, we believe our elections
were free and fair from a cybersecurity perspective."
The
Clinton campaign has met with lawyers, data scientists and analysts to
assess anomalies in the results that would suggest a hacked result.
Private meetings with outside experts involved sharing both groups
concerns about the data and findings.
Clinton's
team said they investigated every theory presented and examined laws
and practices pertaining to recounts, contests and audits.
"And
most importantly, we have monitored and staffed the post-election
canvasses -- where voting machine tapes are compared to poll-books,
provisional ballots are resolved, and all of the math is double checked
from election night," Elias said. "During that process, we have seen
Secretary Clinton's vote total grow, so that, today, her national
popular vote lead now exceeds more than 2 million votes."
The campaign plans to move forward in monitoring activities to better understand the results.
"In
the coming days, we will continue to perform our due diligence and
actively follow all further activities that are to occur prior to the
certification of any election results," he said.
It is "unfortunate" that all states don't conduct "post-election" audits.
"Wisconsin
and Pennsylvania conduct post-election audits using a sampling of
precincts. Michigan and many other states still do not," Elias wrote.
"This is unfortunate; it is our strong belief that, in addition to an
election canvass, every state should do this basic audit to ensure
accuracy and public confidence in the election."
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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