Edward Snowden shows how FBI managed to check 650,000 Clinton-related emails - so quickly

NEW DELHI: Using just 138 characters, famous - or infamous - US whistleblower Edward Snowden late yesterday demonstrated how the FBI could so quickly analyze 650,000 emails to prove US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton did no wrong.

Jeff Jarvis, a journalist, tweeted the NSA whistleblower about whether such an analysis could be done so quickly, because US Republican Donald Trump has been insinuating that it can't. And Snowden, sitting somewhere in Russia, replied.

@jeffjarvis Drop non-responsive To:/CC:/BCC:, hash both sets, then subtract those that match. Old laptops could do it in minutes-to-hours.

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) November 7, 2016

Late last month, the FBI claimed it found new emails that had been hosted on Clinton's private server. It claimed to have found them during an unrelated investigation into disgraced former US Congressman Anthony Weiner.

After FBI director James Comey on Sunday cleared Clinton of wrongdoing, yet again, Trump claimed the system is "rigged" and that there's no way the FBI could have gone through so many emails in eight days.

"Right now she's being protected by a rigged system. It's a totally rigged system," Trump said at a campaign speech in Michigan, the BBC reported. "You can't review 650,000 new emails in eight days. You can't do it, folks," he added.

Meanwhile, a new poll shows Democratic candidate Clinton is leading her Republican rival Trump by four percentage points, on the eve of the elections, PTI reported. Clinton has the support of 45 percent of likely voters as against 41 per cent for Trump, PTI said, referring to CBS News's latest weekly poll.

CBS said Trump leads among white men, white people without a college degree, and seniors. On the other hand, Clinton leads among women, African-Americans and younger voters. She also has an edge among white people with a college degree, the poll said.

In the RealClearPolitics average of polls, Trump is now trailing by two percentage points.

Separately, at least 44.9 million people have cast ballots by early voting - by mail or at polling stations - according to Associated Press (AP) data. There was a soaring turnout from Latino voters, which could be good news for Clinton, AP reported.

``Interest in early voting has been unprecedented in many states,'' said Michael McDonald, a University of Florida professor and expert on voter turnout who is a consultant to AP.