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If an election were flipped in such a way, it would be noticeable because the candidate would lose the popular vote (since the popular vote is a robust statisti
by waqf 9y ago
If an election were flipped in such a way, it would be noticeable because the candidate would lose the popular vote (since the popular vote is a robust statistic and can't be flipped without a large number of hacked machines) but would somehow happen to win by a very narrow margin in a few critical swing states.
(Of course the same is true of any other campaign technique, legitimate or illegitimate, that relies on targeting specific precincts.)
- jdp23 9y agoAnd if an election were flipped in such a way, it would turn out to be impossible to verify the results in a recount. http://time.com/4599886/detroit-voting-machine-failures-were-widespread-on-election-day/ http://time.com/4599886/detroit-voting-machine-failures-were...
- bpicolo 9y ago> If an election were flipped in such a way, it would be noticeable because the candidate would lose the popular vote (since the popular vote is a robust statistic and can't be flipped without a large number of hacked machines) but would somehow happen to win by a very narrow margin in a few critical swing states. sooo exactly what happened this election, roughly?
- learc83 9y agoWas this sarcasm? In case it wasn't, in the last election the candidate that won lost the popular vote by about 3 million votes. But won 3 critical swing states by about 80k votes total. There was no widespread auditing of the voting machine code after this happened.
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