Clinton Under Pressure to Contest US Election Result

*Election Experts Suggest She Was Robbed of Victory

Remi Ladigbolu

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party candidate in the United State’s presidential election is currently being pressured by a group of election experts to contest the result of the election won by her rival and President-elect Donald Trump.

According to a report by MailOnline, the group is suggesting Mrs. Clinton could have been robbed of the presidency by hackers and now they are calling for her to demand a recount.

The group, which includes voting rights experts and computer security buffs, says it has compelling evidence that Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania could have been hacked to artificially lower turnout.

The reported quoted New York magazine as saying that the experts are now pressuring the Clinton group to call for an independent recount that could swing the pendulum of the election in her favour.

The experts say that counties that use electronic polling registered fewer votes than those with paper counts – suggesting, they say, a hack.

The group says that Clinton received seven percent fewer votes in those counties of Wisconsin in which votes were counted electronically, compared to those with paper ballots and optical scanners.

That suggests Clinton’s counts may have been artificially lowered from within the counting machines by hackers, while the paper counts – not being susceptible to hacking – remained unaffected, they say.

According to their calculations, such a hack could have cost Clinton 30,000 votes in Wisconsin. She lost that state – and its ten Electoral College votes – by 27,000.

Michigan was too close to call with a gap of 11,000, denying Clinton its 16 Electoral College votes, and she lost Pennsylvania’s 20 Electoral College votes by 68,236.

Though there’s been no suggestion of possible culprits in the potential hacking, the Democratic National Committee blamed Russia for mid-election-season hacks of Democrat email accounts.

If an independent investigation could prove hacking – and a recount proved Clinton won those three states – then she would be made President after all.

But, the group – whose experts include voting-rights attorney John Bonifaz and J Alex Halderman, director of the University of Michigan Centre for Computer Security and Society – haven not yet persuaded the Clinton camp to demand an investigation.

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