Hacking the presidential election just isn't possible (yet)

The drums of political warfare in this year's U.S. presidential race are positively deafening, with the loudest beats coming from Donald Trump, naturally, and his tireless insistence that the 2016 vote, now just a few weeks away, is already rigged against him. 

This year's race is already historic on several fronts: the implosion of the GOP, Hillary Clinton's ongoing email leaks, sexual assault allegations against Trump — and that's just for starters. But hackers rigging a presidential vote would be quite the American milestone.