talking about something that might be possible and acting it was what happened.

Well, then you shouldn't have a problem here, because that's not what I'm doing.

Let me break down the argument into five parts, and you show me the bits with which you disagree.

PART 1: It is the responsibility of a democratically-elected government to demonstrate, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the result of its elections are legitimate. The burden of proof lies with the government, because the government is the only entity with that ability in the first place.

PART 2: Electronic voting machines are computers designed for a certain purpose, namely the counting of ballots with greater accuracy and speed than can be achieved by humans. Computers have no intelligence of their own; they run only the code that is entered into them. Computer code is of two types: machine code, which is the literal ones and zeroes flowing through the processing unit, and source code, which is human-readable. Source code is like a set of instructions that tell the machine what to do; it must be "compiled" into machine code that the computer can understand. Source code is of two types as well: open-source, which means that the source code is freely available for anyone to read, and closed-source, which is kept secret by the people who wrote it (or their employer).

PART 3: There are three major manufacturers of electronic voting machines: Diebold, Dominion, and ES&S. All three manufacture their machines under closed-source terms. This means that no one outside the company is allowed to look at the source code and verify that it in fact does what they claim it does: i.e., count ballots with greater accuracy and speed than can be achieved by humans.

PART 4: Because the several voting-machine manufacturers do not make their source code available for review, we cannot be certain that the machines supplied to various polling places are actually counting votes accurately, especially given that the machines are connected to the internet. The several State and local elections boards also do not make available clear, verifiable chains of custody for the machines.

PART 5: Given the foregoing, the present government cannot prove that the results of its elections are legitimate. I also cannot prove that the results are fraudulent, but I do not have the burden of proof. I should not have made a blanket statement to that effect, however. A more accurate--and logically-sound--statement would be to say that THE RESULT CANNOT BE PROVEN LEGITIMATE. It is absolutely possible that the result was fraudulent, and if the result cannot be proven legitimate, it cannot be disproven that it is fraudulent, either.

So they massively hacked the voting machines, but forgot to do for the general election?

If you dare to put words in my mouth again, I will shit in yours. Go run tell that to your cocksucker of a boss. You shills always make with the exaggerations of scale to discredit people. It's bullshit, and I don't much care for bullshit.

There was no massive hacking. A massive hack requires a lot of resources, a lot of collaboration or head-turning on the part of local officials, and carries a high risk of being discovered. But if you're trying to rig an election, you don't need massive in the first place. The electorate of the empire is pretty neatly divided, so the spread is not that big. In a race where the winner wins by ~5-6%, one needs to fake, flip, or erase only 2-3% to change the outcome. You just need to know where to concentrate the effort. In races where 50% turnout, this isn't actually a lot of votes.

Do you remember the VAN "hacking" scandal during the primary? Well, the North remembers. There exists, somewhere in cyberspace, a database called the "Voter Action Network" which contains voter-registration information gleaned from the public records of the fifty states of the empire. This database includes information on who donated to whom, because that information is also public record. The several campaigns have access to this database, but the donor information is supposed to be kept confidential. I believe they called it a "firewall". At any rate, right before the New York primary, this firewall was hacked. A low-level staffer of the Bernie campaign (who immediately quit) was alleged to have done the deed. But during the period that the security breach was ongoing (only a few hours, IIRC), both campaigns had access to each other's donor information. The Clinton family had the means, motive, and opportunity to steal that information. Based on the evidence, I conclude it is more likely than not that they did.

With that information--knowing where and who to target--the result of the primary election could easily have been altered with a combination of faking, flipping, and erasure of votes amounting to a relatively small portion of the electorate. How many thousands of people had their voter-registration information mysteriously lost? How many were turned away at polling places? In what proportion? Those are old-fashioned means of election-tampering which don't even have to resort to playing with the machines themselves. The Clinton family used every single trick up their sleeves, both legal and illegal, to guarantee a victory. We cannot know what the result would have been if it were honest, but they sure as shit can't prove it was legitimate, either.

As for the general election, they didn't forget to try, they tried and failed. They did not have accurate data; among other things, the polls were unreliable. No one would fucking admit an intention to vote for the Cheeto, and they guessed wrong on how many Berniecrats would flip. Further, because the electorate is so much larger for a Presidential election than the primary, it would have been a larger effort to accomplish it in the first place. Finally, Hillary Clinton is a witch-demon who drinks baby blood. Donald Trump is a demented television personality who is stuck in the locomotive of a runaway train, and he ain't driving. A frog-headed Egyptian chaos god accidentally summoned by the fucking Internet is driving. We are all passengers on the train. I am trying to get off the train, so that I can spread 𓎡𓎡𓅱𓏭's wisdom elsewhere in the universe, and you have the temerity to mock me.

Cease your intention immediately, fall to your knees, and repent. 𓎡𓎡𓅱𓏭 is your God now, and 𓎡𓎡𓅱𓏭 commands it.