2016 United States presidential election

=== Vote tampering concerns ===
[[File:How Hard Is It to Hack the US Election - November 5 2016.webm|thumb|right|200px|"How Hard Is It to Hack the US Election" video report from [[Voice of America]], November{{nbsp}}5, 2016 (three days before the election)]]

After the election, computer scientists, including [[Alex Halderman|J. Alex Halderman]], the director of the [[University of Michigan]] Center for Computer Security and Society, urged the Clinton campaign to request an [[election recount]] in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania (three swing states where Trump had won narrowly) for the purpose of excluding the possibility that the hacking of [[electronic voting]] machines had influenced the recorded outcome.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/hillary-clinton-challenge-results/index.html |title=Computer scientists to Clinton campaign: Challenge election results |first=Dan |last=Merica |website=[[CNN]]|access-date=November 23, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/activists-urge-hillary-clinton-to-challenge-election-results.html |title=Experts Urge Clinton Campaign to Challenge Election Results in 3 Swing States |last=Sherman |first=Gabriel |newspaper=Daily Intelligencer|access-date=November 23, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://medium.com/@jhalderm/want-to-know-if-the-election-was-hacked-look-at-the-ballots-c61a6113b0ba |title=Want to Know if the Election was Hacked? Look at the Ballots |last=Halderman |first=J. Alex |date=November 24, 2016 |website=Medium |access-date=November 24, 2016}}</ref> However, statistician [[Nate Silver]] performed a [[regression analysis]] which demonstrated that the alleged discrepancy between paper [[ballot]]s and electronic [[voting machine]]s "completely disappears once you control for race and education level."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/801221907609579520 |title=Nate Silver on Twitter |newspaper=Twitter|access-date=November 24, 2016}}</ref> On November 25, 2016, the [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama administration]] said the results from November{{nbsp}}8 "accurately reflect the will of the American people."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/us/politics/hacking-russia-election-fears-barack-obama-donald-trump.html |title=U.S. Officials Defend Integrity of Vote, Despite Hacking Fears |last=Sanger |first=David E. |work=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 26, 2016 |access-date=November 27, 2016}}</ref> The following day, the White House released another statement, saying: "the federal government did not observe any increased level of malicious cyberactivity aimed at disrupting our electoral process on Election Day."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/us/politics/clinton-camp-will-join-push-for-wisconsin-ballot-recount.html |title=Hillary Clinton's Team to Join Wisconsin Recount Pushed by Jill Stein |last=Sanger |first=David E. |work=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 26, 2016 |access-date=November 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/white-house-hackers-election-recount-231849 |title=White House insists hackers didn't sway election, even as recount begins |last=Geller |first=Eric |work=[[Politico]]|date=November 26, 2016 |access-date=March 18, 2024}}</ref>

In the years following the election, Hillary Clinton has alleged that official maleficence contributed to and may have caused her electoral loss, saying in 2022, "Literally within hours of the polls closing in 2016, we had so much evidence pouring in about voters being turned away in Milwaukee and not being able to vote in Detroit. These states were run by Republicans so there was no way to find out the truth about any of them."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Luce |first1=Edward |title=Hillary Clinton: 'We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy' |url=https://www.ft.com/content/2e667c3f-954d-49fa-8024-2c869789e32f |access-date=17 August 2023| newspaper = Financial Times| date = 17 June 2022}}</ref>

Donald Trump and New Hampshire governor [[Chris Sununu]] both complained that liberal voters from Massachusetts were illegally bused into New Hampshire for the 2016 election, and [[Scott Brown (politician)|Scott Brown]] blamed the same phenomenon for losing his senate race in 2014.<ref name="nh_once">{{cite news |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/06/01/says-once-and-for-all-that-one-was-bused-vote/bQxQPQxyrvEOUzXTirnwDP/story.html |title=N.H. says once and for all that no one was bused in to vote |date=June 1, 2018 |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |author=James Pindell |access-date=October 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026064758/https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/06/01/says-once-and-for-all-that-one-was-bused-vote/bQxQPQxyrvEOUzXTirnwDP/story.html |archive-date=October 26, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The New Hampshire Secretary of State and New Hampshire Department of Justice issued a report in 2018 regarding complaints of voters being bused in from Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts for the 2016 election. They found that in every case, field inspectors were able to determine that the voters were from New Hampshire, though they were riding a bus operated by an out-of-state company (which has its name and address written on the outside of the bus, presumably the source of the confusion).<ref name="nh_once"/> Out of 743,000 votes cast, four were determined to be cast illegally, either because the voters were told to go to the wrong location, or because the voter believed they were able to vote in each town in which they owned property.<ref name="nh_once"/> Out of about 6,000 same-day voter registrations in the state, the report says only 66 voters could not have their residency confirmed (though fraud is not the only explanation for such a failure).<ref name="nh_once"/>