If an election were flipped in such a way, it would be noticeable because the candidate would lose the popular vote (since the popular vote is a robust statistic and can't be flipped without a large number of hacked machines) but would somehow happen to win by a very narrow margin in a few critical swing states.
(Of course the same is true of any other campaign technique, legitimate or illegitimate, that relies on targeting specific precincts.)
> If an election were flipped in such a way, it would be noticeable because the candidate would lose the popular vote (since the popular vote is a robust statistic and can't be flipped without a large number of hacked machines) but would somehow happen to win by a very narrow margin in a few critical swing states.
sooo exactly what happened this election, roughly?
In case it wasn't, in the last election the candidate that won lost the popular vote by about 3 million votes. But won 3 critical swing states by about 80k votes total.
There was no widespread auditing of the voting machine code after this happened.
(Of course the same is true of any other campaign technique, legitimate or illegitimate, that relies on targeting specific precincts.)