The Senate just basically admitted Russia rigged the vote totals for Donald Trump
Anyone with a basic understanding of statistics has known since election night that the voting results we were looking at were all but mathematically impossible. It was not impossible for Trump to win, but it was impossible for him to have won in the particular way that he won. As Palmer Report began documenting in mid-November of 2016, these numbers simply did not present themselves as being naturally occurring real-world numbers. We’ve all instinctively known for a long time that Russia rigged the voting totals in Trump’s favor. Now the United States Senate has revealed how Russia did it.
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a bipartisan report this evening which confirmed that Russian hackers did indeed penetrate the voter databases in several states before the election, and were in position to alter or delete voter registration data. So this explains it. The question all along has been how Russia could have hacked in on election day and changed the voting totals. Now we know they didn’t have to.
All these Russian hackers had to do was screw with the voter registration data for just enough registered Democrats, so that those people would be turned away on election day. In such circumstances, some people insist on casting a provisional vote, while others get frustrated or confused and simply leave without voting. By preventing these people from being able to cast a vote, Russia directly rigged the voting totals before the voting even began.
To be clear, the Senate Intel Committee is only acknowledging (for now) that the Russian hackers did break into the voter registration databases, and that they were in position to rig the election by targeting registration data. But bank robbers don’t break into a bank, gain access to the vault, and then decide not to take the money. As Palmer Report laid out a year and a half ago, Russia rigged the vote totals in Donald Trump’s favor – and now we know how they did it.
