That's one good argument against mass hacking: if it was as easy as it's being made out to be to manipulate the results, we should expect to see something obvio

That's one good argument against mass hacking: if it was as easy as it's being made out to be to manipulate the results, we should expect to see something obviously vandalized: a black county that voted 100% Trump, or a county where third party candidates get all the votes. > There’s no question that this is possible for technically sophisticated attackers. (If my Ph.D. students and I were criminals, I’m sure we could pull it off.) If anyone reasonably skilled is sufficiently motivated and willing to face the risk of getting caught, it’s happened already. Surely there's someone on 4chan who ticks those boxes. The motivation doesn't even have to be pure vandalism: it would be a very effective way to call attention to the vulnerabilities in the system.