| Though no one has said it outright, a recount in Wisconsin (and potentially Michigan and Pennsylvania) appears to be rooted in a single notion: Russia's involvement. U.S. cybersecurity officials think Russia has tried to influence other parts of the election, like leaking damaging Democratic emails or helping spread fake news. But hacking the actual election is a different animal entirely, and it would be nearly impossible to do. You'd have to successfully get into and manipulate dozens and dozens of voting systems to make a widespread hack work. States have lots of backstops to protect their voting systems from hackers, like these three common protections (as outlined by Florida's official elections board) that seem worth going into now: 1. On election night, results are encoded with multiple layers of encryption and transmitted to a central gathering point. 2. Voting machines themselves are not connected to the Internet, preventing them all from being hacked at once. 3. A week after the election, the results in each precinct are reviewed by looking at the paper totals. Any discrepancies are "researched and noted." Tracking Trump's campaign promises (all 282 of them) Trump at a rally in August in Austin. (Drew Anthony Smith/Getty Images) While we're making lists, The Washington Post's lead Trump reporter, Jenna Johnson, has compiled an extraordinary list of all the things Trump has promised he'd do when president. Politicians are prone to making campaign promises, but Trump made an unusually high number of them. Here are some about: His demeanor as president: 1. “I’m going to be so presidential, you’re going to be so bored.” He might also quit tweeting. 2. “I refuse to be politically correct.” How he'll crate jobs: 3. “Get Apple to start building their damn computers and things in this country, instead of in other countries.” 4. Refuse to eat another Oreo until Nabisco fully moves production back to the United States from Mexico. And bicycles: “I promise I will never be in a bicycle race. That I can tell you.” (Trump has criticized Secretary of State John Kerry, who was injured while riding a bicycle amid the Iran negotiations.) I guess we'll never know who's better at riding a bicycle: Trump or this raccoon. Sad! (giphy.com) | 