Not very convincing . They ' re admitting that electronic voting machines are vulnerable to attacks , but think that it ' s just too much work to go around to all the different counties that use them in order to physically mess with them in person . I understand the desire to have the public trust the election results but it ' s honestly not hard at all to imagine a group motivated enough to do this in swing states . Did it happen in this election ? Probably not in my opinion . Michigan doesn ' t even use electronic voting according to Nate Silver . But let ' s not pretend it ' s some outlandish conspiracy theory that could never happen . If you think of the amount of money , time , effort , and manpower that goes into a campaign advertising in multiple states , traveling city to city for rallies , volunteers going doortodoor campaigns themselves are highly organized and decentralized with offices throughout the country . Hacking the voting machines of a couple key states would be a relatively cheap , easy , and efficient way to get votes compared to these other methods . And these campaigns were not above using underhanded methods . You ' ve got Clinton ' s people feeding her debate questions and Scott Foval caught on camera talking about the idea of putting plants at Trump rallies . And you ' ve got Trump bribing journalists for favorable coverage and asking people to not trust mailin ballots and to vote a second time , which at least one Trump supporter was caught doing .