中国日报网11月23日电 据美国媒体11月22日报道，一些选举律师和计算机科学家近日表示，特朗普在美国大选中所赢得的三个摇摆州的票数可能被操纵或修改。他们希望希拉里能够要求重新计算选票。
《纽约杂志》报道称，该团体发现，威斯康星、密歇根和宾夕法尼亚三个特朗普所赢下的摇摆州的计票可能存在问题，于是他们在上周同希拉里的高级竞选副手举行电话会议，力劝希拉里一方能够提出重新计票的要求。
这个团体表示，以威斯康星州为例，希拉里在那些用电子投票机的县所得票数，要比在用光学扫描仪和纸质选票的县低7%。统计分析显示，如果投票系统真的被黑，希拉里可能被少算了约3万张票，而她以2.7万张选票的劣势丢掉了威斯康星。
希拉里在该州大城市的得票数很乐观，而这些地方用的就是纸质选票；相反在使用电子投票机的乡村地区，她的情况就不是很好了。
虽然这个组织的说法明显缺乏能够证明存在黑客行为的证据，不过他们认为这就足以展开独立调查了。
最终的选举结果是特朗普以290:232胜出，但其中不包括密歇根州的16票，原因是双方得票数相差无几。不过，如果真的对密歇根和威斯康星两个州的选票重新计算，那么希拉里的总票数可能会增加至258；另外，若宾夕法尼亚州的得票结果被推翻重算，那么希拉里就又多了20票。此消彼长，结果将会反转，特朗普总统就又会变回普通人了。
下周就是提出异议的最后期限，但现在还不知道希拉里阵营是否会要求重新计票。《纽约杂志》认为，奥巴马政府不希望重新计票，因为它希望权力过渡能够平稳地进行。
Experts Urge Clinton Campaign to Challenge Election Results
in 3 Swing States
New Yorker，2016-11-22，By Gabriel Sherman
Hillary Clinton is being urged by a group of prominent
computer scientists and election lawyers to call for a recount in three swing
states won by Donald Trump, New York has learned. The group, which includes
voting-rights attorney John Bonifaz and J. Alex Halderman, the director of the
University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society believes
they’ve found persuasive evidence that results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and
Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked. The group is so far not speaking
on the record about their findings and is focused on lobbying the Clinton team
in private.
Last Thursday, the activists held a conference call with
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and campaign general counsel Marc Elias
to make their case, according to a source briefed on the call. The academics
presented findings showing that in Wisconsin, Clinton received 7 percent fewer
votes in counties that relied on electronic-voting machines compared with
counties that used optical scanners and paper ballots. Based on this
statistical analysis, Clinton may have been denied as many as 30,000 votes; she
lost Wisconsin by 27,000. While it’s important to note the group has not found
proof of hacking or manipulation, they are arguing to the campaign that the
suspicious pattern merits an independent review — especially in light of the
fact that the Obama White House has accused the Russian government of hacking
the Democratic National Committee.
According to current tallies, Trump has won 290 Electoral
College votes to Clinton’s 232, with Michigan’s 16 votes not apportioned
because the race there is still too close to call. It would take overturning
the results in both Wisconsin (10 Electoral College votes) and Pennsylvania (20
votes), in addition to winning Michigan’s 16, for Clinton to win the Electoral
College. There is also the complicating factor of “faithless electors,” or
members of the Electoral College who do not vote according to the popular vote
in their states. At least six electoral voters have said they would not vote
for Trump, despite the fact that he won their states.
The Clinton camp is running out of time to challenge the
election. According to one of the activists, the deadline in Wisconsin to file
for a recount is Friday; in Pennsylvania, it’s Monday; and Michigan is next
Wednesday. Whether Clinton will call for a recount remains unclear. The
academics so far have only a circumstantial case that would require not just a
recount but a forensic audit of voting machines. Also complicating matters, a
senior Clinton adviser said, is that the White House, focused on a smooth
transfer of power, does not want Clinton to challenge the election result.
Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri did not respond to a request
for comment. But some Clinton allies are intent on pushing the issue. This
afternoon, Huma Abedin’s sister Heba encouraged her Facebook followers to lobby
the Justice Department to audit the 2016 vote. “Call the DOJ…and tell them you
want the votes audited,” she wrote. “Even if it’s busy, keep calling.”
