This is where the danger occurs. When sinister people conflate a hoard of bots as their "silent majority."
All talks about "Hillary got more in popular vote" is akin to talking that the fat slob should have won against the MMA fighter quarter of his weight had the rules been about weight competition and not about dropping the opponent.
[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/days-after-activ...
[1] http://www.npr.org/2017/06/14/532824432/if-voting-machines-w...
Smartmatic manufactures the voting machines used in 16 states last November.
The Chairman of Smartmatic, Mark Malloch-Brown, is on the board of George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.
It is not hacking by Russians that is the threat.
Think what you like about Soros but having major Democrat donors running the electronic voting system is asking for trouble, be it real or manufactured.
No, it was well-documented fact long before Trump was even considered a candidate aside from his abortive 2000 Reform Party effort, that came to light particularly around the 2004 election and has been intermittently in the news since.
What was (correctly) viewed as a Trump camp conspiracy theory was that there was a massive conspiracy to illegally deny him an election win, including by hacking voting machines, not the idea that it was possible to hack voting machines.
(Also, you might want to think about which party won the 2004 presidential election in which voting machine hacking became seen as a major issue, and why it's the same party whose victory in the 2016 presidential election caused it to again be seen as a major issue.)