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U.S. Elections are a Mess, Even Though There's No Evidence This One Was Hacked

| November 23, 2016

Unproven reports of possible discrepancies in the Rust Belt just show how untrustworthy the system is.

Was the 2016 presidential election hacked? It's hard to tell. There were no obvious hacks on Election Day, but new reports have raised the question of whether voting machines were tampered with in three states that Donald Trump won this month: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

The researchers behind these reports include voting rights lawyer John Bonifaz and J. Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, both respected in the community. They have been talking with Hillary Clinton's campaign, but their analysis is not yet public....

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For Academic Citation: Schneier, Bruce.“U.S. Elections are a Mess, Even Though There's No Evidence This One Was Hacked.” The Washington Post, November 23, 2016.

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