There are about 120,000 polling places in the US. Three quarters of them still use paper punch ballots, the remainder use electronic machines. These machines utilize a computer designed specifically to record and count votes and are not connected to the internet. In many locations, votes are counted by hand and tallied with calculators. The only way the votes could be "manipulated" is if those who tally by hand are agents of a foreign government or the OS or software in the electronic machines were previously coded or calibrated to alter votes. So, how did a foreign nation access the paper punch or electronic machines to "manipulate" the votes?

One more question: are you afraid of ghosts also?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/20/17032210/trump-obama-rigged-election-russia


Trump cites a misleading Obama quote to say Russia didn’t interfere in the election
Obama was talking about voter fraud — not Russia.


President Donald Trump tweeted a quote from former President Barack Obama on Tuesday morning as part of his continual attempts to downplay Russian interference in the 2016 election. There’s just one problem: The quote is taken vastly out of context and therefore misleading.

“There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even — you could even rig America’s elections, in part, because they are so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved,” Obama said during a press conference at the White House in October 2016. “There is no evidence that that has happened in the past or that there are instances in which that will happen this time. And so I’d invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.”

Obama’s remarks were in reference to the then-Republican presidential candidate’s claims that widespread voter fraud would rob him of the election, and his encouragement of his supporters to monitor polling places — and not at all about Russian interference in the election. (Numerous studies have found that voter fraud is very rare in the US.)


Trump repeatedly focused on “voter fraud” in 2016 — which is rare
In the days leading up to the 2016 Obama remarks Trump cited on Tuesday, Trump had tweeted that the election was being rigged by the “dishonest and distorted media” and at many polling places. “Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day,” he wrote.

The comments Trump cited on Tuesday were about that — Obama’s response to Trump’s claims that the election was rigged and calls for supporters to monitor certain areas on the day of the election.

“It’s unprecedented,” Obama said of Trump’s claims when a reporter asked about them in October 2016. “It happens to be based on no facts; every expert, regardless of political party, regardless of ideology, conservative or liberal, who has ever examined these issues in a serious way, will tell you that instances of significant voter fraud are not to be found.”

blade, perhaps you are the only person in the nation who did not get the information..

No one made any claim that ballots were changed.. I think that was by the GOP in 2010..

what the interference consisted of was repeated lies and misinformation about Lady Hillary..

The unending lies over 20 years were accentuated by the Russians and by constant repetition had some effect

concentrated in particular states where they felt the population was upset..

Some feel Wisconsin and Michigan were turned red by this tactic..

Ghosts??? I have a ghost in my own house and we are good friends..