A blog post in New York Magazine has been sweeping around the internet because it calls into question the results of the 2016 presidential election. The piece intimates that a prominent professor of computer science at the University of Michigan, J. Alex Halderman – along with a voting rights attorney - believe there is a “suspicious pattern” that merits further review of the election results in the three key swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. It was reported that the two have been in phone contact with the Clinton campaign urging them to press for a recount in these states. But when we reached out to Halderman, he directed us to his blog post where he says the magazine didn’t get it right. Halderman has reached out to the Clinton campaign asking for more scrutiny of the election results, but not because he thinks hacking took place in these states. Rather, he says that hacking election systems is not "out of the realm of possibility," and that’s why he, and others,
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