@ehBeth,
Quote ehBeth on Russians helping Greens:
Quote:if they did, they weren't much use
didn't even get the Greens close to the numbers they had under Ralph Nader (at the presidential level)
You would probably have to go through a state-by-state analysis of how many votes the Greens got in each state, figure an 80% - 20% Democratic over Republican split for second choice, and see how it plays out electorally. It's possible that it might have made the difference.
At any rate, it is a moot point in 2016 since Gary Johnson ran on the Libertarian ticket and got several times the votes that the Greens' Jill Stein did. And most of Gary Johnson's voters were likely much more sympathetic to Trump than Hillary. Third or fourth parties did not make the difference in 2016. They did in 2000.