You've undoubtedly heard the rumors that Russia or, ahem, some unknown state actor, is
meddling in our presidential election, and plotting a massive hack on our electronic voting machines to tip the scales in favor of Trump. Hate to be the one to burst the conspiracy bubble, but they couldn't do that even if they wanted to.
However, what could potentially affect voter turnout -- and by extension, the potential outcome of the election -- is a massive internet cyber attack like the one that brought down tons of sites worldwide on October 21st. What would happen if someone decided to pull off an even more crippling DDoS attack in the States on Election Day? https://www.thrillist.com/tech/nation/how-internet-outages-hackers-could-affect-election-day-2016/tech