The pieces are starting to come together. Luckily, the recount has begun. Hopefully, the electors will exercise their constitutional duty and choose Clinton anyway. As Lawrence Lessig explained in a Washington Post OP-Ed, they have every legal right to do so.

But at the very least, hopefully, moving forward, let’s make sure we have an audit trail for future elections.

How I Came to See That the Election Needs to be Audited and How You Can Too

By Beth Martinez

What kept coming back to me that day was a 2006 Rolling Stone article about the strong evidence that Diebold voting machines in Ohio switched votes from Kerry to Bush in 2004, thus “rigging” the outcome of the presidential election. As the votes were being tallied and the majority of the country was in shock, I started thinking, was THIS election also hacked?

It’s a theory I posited to a friend on election night, accompanied by the observation that Trump often calls out his own failings as faults of others. Did he know the election was going to be rigged, so he put Dems on the defensive early on? Or is he just the king of “whoever smelt it dealt it?”