more breaking news tonight. green party candidate jill stein announced that today her supporters filed a legal petition seeking a recount in pennsylvania. that s one of three states she s focusing on in her recount effort along with wisconsin and michigan. the wisconsin recount is set to get under way later this week. the clinton campaign is now onboard. i spoke with jill stein a short time ago. dr. stein, at this point, do you have any evidence at all, actual evidence, of voter fraud, of fraud at the ballot boxes? no. what we have are predictors that if tampering took place, that it would be most likely to be discovered in the three states where we are looking but it s like when you get into an airplane, you do not want to have evidence that the airplane is rapidly losing altitude before you create a backup system to be sure your airplane has a safety net, that it has built-in quality assurance. that s what we re calling for in this election and in all elections that we need to have
before you create a backup system to be sure your airplane has a safety net, that it has built-in quality assurance. that s what we re calling for in this election and in all elections that we need to have a system that we can be confident in. you re talking about potential hacking and obviously there have been instances and obviously dnc e-mails were hacked, there were attempts to get into efforts to get into various voter databases. but the fbi has been investigating that, and i assume continues to investigate that, and even the clinton campaign, their counsel says they ve had lawyers and data analysts and programmers looking since the results and have not uncovered any actionable evidence. that s right, and what the people who watchdog the voting machine equipment, what they will be very quick will to tell you is that this is something you cannot see unless you actually count the ballots. there is otherwise no standard against which to measure it.
recount. we are going to look back when this recount is completed and find that the system worked well and i don t expect that the outcome will be quantitatively different than the recount at the supreme court where we had a minimal amount of votes done. when you talk about evidence of hacking, what do you have to prove that of wisconsin and pennsylvania and michigan. there is no evil. the point here is we deserve an election system that has built in safe guards. you would not get into an airplane and first start thinking about your backup system when the plane begins to suddenly move out. you want a system which is secure from the get-go. this is an election which there is hacking and allegations of tampering all over the place.
on saturday. hundreds of flights were canceled. aviation officials say the glitch has been fixed but the damage has been done. we captured this photo of stranded passengers at ronald reagan airport in washington, d.c. the problem was made worse by a failure of backup systems. the real root problem is going to be when that power shuts off, there s supposed to be a back up system like you buy those battery systems for those systems at home to make sure when the power goes out you still have power. that s the uninterruptible power supply. these are hundreds of million of products that need to be there to make sure that these computers don t have to reboot every time there s a loss of power and it appears that system didn t work here and that s an essential system that has to be up and running and so there s going to be some heads rolling on this one. this is a really big deal.
with it and actually caused a fire in a control center. i remember that. how does something like this happen? it happens here this is something that i believe in early reports shows that there s a power shutdown at the washington air traffic control center, at the air root traffic control center. that sets off so many different problems. but the real root problems is going to be that when that power shuts off, there s supposed to be a back-up system like you buy those battery systems for your systems at home that makes sure when your power goes out, you have continuous power. and these are millions of dollars worth of products that make sure the systems don t have to reboot every time there s a loss of power. it appears that system didn t work here. and that s an essential system that has to be up and running.