MOST voters yearn for closure after an unusually bitter election campaign, but three of the four candidates for the presidency now claim that the election may not have been free and fair. The loudest is Donald Trump. The president-elect frequently alleged that the election process was rigged and voter fraud common in the run-up to the election. On November 27th he tweeted that he had won the popular vote, “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” Jill Stein, the Green Party’s candidate, raised millions of dollars for a recount of votes in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, where Mr Trump’s margins of victory were thin. And after initial hesitations, Hillary Clinton’s campaign joined the drive for a recount in the three Midwestern states which, together, handed Mr Trump his victory.
Ms Stein denies that she is pushing for a recount to overturn the election result. She says she is spurred by worries about the “hackability” of voting systems in the wake of the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s network, voter-registration databases in Illinois and Arizona and the e-mail account of John Podesta, Mrs Clinton’s campaign manager. Some...Continue reading
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