[EL] Halderman's analysis of machine vulnerabilities

[Susannah Goodman]

https://medium.com/@jhalderm/want-to-know-if-the-election-was-hacked-look-at-the-ballots-c61a6113b0ba#.ftn4b3u4c


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Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2016 11:32 AM
To: Mark Scarberry; law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] Green party call for recounts

That's not what Halderman suggested; I believe a good paraphrase would be that he suggested that there had been a lot of other hacking in this election aimed at influencing voter sentiment and that close margins for a winner in these circumstances deserve close scrutiny.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 01:46 Mark Scarberry <mark.scarberry at pepperdine.edu<mailto:mark.scarberry at pepperdine.edu>> wrote:
Jill Stein and her Green party seem to be raising money to fund recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania because of the suggestion that voting machines were hacked. See http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/jill-stein-recount-three-states-election-hacks-231814.

Is a candidate who loses by a very large margin (based on the initial count) ordinarily entitled to a recount if the candidate is willing to pay for it? Does the candidate need to claim that a recount might result in the candidate winning, or at least that the candidate is seeking the recount in an attempt to win? Does any voter ordinarily have the right to demand a recount, if the voter is willing to pay for it?

Does anyone think Halderman's suggestion that the machines were hacked so as to swing the election has any merit?

Mark Scarberry
Pepperdine University School of Law

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