Robert Fitrakis on The 2016 Election.

Robert Fitrakis has been an observer for the State Department on overseas elections and is saying that this election put up a Huge Red Flag denoting fraud. He said that the polls don't defy the rules of statistics only in America.

His point and his colleague Harvey Wasserman is that there is a discrepancy between the exit polls and the actual results. Clinton won exit polls but Trump won. He said this happened in 24 out of 28 states examined and that such a deviant occurrence should only happen 4% of the time. 

He said that the united States doesn't meet the minimum standard of transparency in elections and would not have passed the State Department's "free and fair "test.

Unlike other major democracies, we use  voting machines that are between 10 to 20 years old. Homeland Security has left our whole elections infrastructure unprotected from cyberattacks. While it is argued that voting machines aren't on the internet. While voting occurs,the results are transmitted over the internet. He says that it doesn't have to be Russia hacking us. Professores at the University of Michigan and Princeton have regularly hacked our elections system to demonstrate its vulnerability.

His complaint is that the voting machines are made by for-profit corporations who primarily lead Republican. The software is proprietary and the election officials don't have the code. He pointed to the presidential election in Youngstown,Ohio where election officials had to admit the computers were reprogrammed to show opposite results. The problem is that in Pennsylvania the vote was 80% by computers.

Fitrakis was a Democrat who turned Green after the Iraq War and is on record expressing oncerns about Hillary's warlike tendencies. 

He proposes  the United States should celebrate its democracy. Have election day through a long weekend and have paper ballots which are hand counted in front of people. He also proposes using voting machines with an open code and not a black box where we can't have access. 

In 2016, 57.9% of eligible voters actually cast their ballots.