Breaking down Trump’s baseless assertions of voter fraud (episode 205)
Roughly Speaking
English - November 05, 2017 22:37 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Could voter fraud of the massive scale being asserted by President Donald J. Trump occur in the United States? Sean Gallagher, the Baltimore-based IT editor of Ars Technica and our favorite techsplainer, explains why getting 3 million to 5 million illegal votes cast in multiple states would be nearly impossible. Gallagher also talks about the Russian hack of the 2016 presidential campaign, but he believes Internet trolls likely had more of an influence on voters than did the Russian hackers and WikiLeaks.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/sns-bc-us--trump-20170124-story.htmlhttps://arstechnica.com/author/sean-gallagher/