From Berkeley News
‘Rigging the election’ — rhetoric vs. reality
By Anne Brice
Just hours before Donald Trump made international news by refusing to say he would accept the results of the Nov. 8 election — an election he has repeatedly complained is “rigged” — one of his campaign surrogates sent a message about how, specifically, the outcome might be altered to steal a victory from the Republican nominee....
But Betsy Cooper, executive director of the Center for Long-term Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley, notes that the only hacks we know of in this year’s race have been hacks of the Democratic Party, as seen in an ongoing series of document dumps by Wikileaks. And she says it’s highly unlikely a hacker could reverse the will of the U.S. electorate....
“On the Trump side, though, an overarching theme of his campaign has been that ‘the system is rigged,'” Cooper says. “I don’t think when he started that he was really referring to electoral systems. But it would be very easy to make an inference that’s really what he’s concerned about.”...
