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State Authorities Deny Trump's False Fraud Allegations

2020-11-06T16:26:58.782Z


The president and some members of his family have spread false allegations that his election is being stolen. All have been rejected by state officials, and in the courts the majority of lawsuits have failed.


By Andrea López-Cruzado

Since the end of the vote Tuesday night, President Donald Trump has used Twitter and the White House to denounce electoral fraud for which there is no evidence. 

Several of his messages have been censored by the social network for lacking sustenance, including one in which he said that he was going to file legal claims in states granted to Joe Biden and another in which he declared: "STOP THE FRAUD!"

On Thursday night, with the White House seal on his back, he referred to "legal votes" that would give him victory and "illegal votes" that would steal it. 

However, one by one, the electoral authorities of the states attacked by the president have denied it.

The courts to which his campaign has gone have denied his requests to suspend the counting of votes, and the Republicans who usually defend him have rejected his attitude. 

"There is no defense for the president's comments, which undermine the democratic process," Larry Hogan, the Republican Governor of Maryland, said on Twitter.

“The United States is counting the votes and we must respect the results as we have always done before.

No choice or person is more important than our democracy, ”he added.

The Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, won the state of Maryland with more than 60% of the vote. 

Rick Santorum, a former Republican senator from Pennsylvania, called some of the president's remarks "inflammatory."

Today's CNN political commentator also said that talking about fraud without evidence "is dangerous."

Majority opposes Trump's declaration of victory

The rejection has also come from the population, who witnessed Trump's first lie after the closing of the votes when he said early Wednesday that he had won the elections. 

[Biden beats Trump in Pennsylvania and Georgia but the count goes on and the winner of the election is not yet known]

Only 16% of adults polled Wednesday and Thursday by Reuters / Ipsos said they accepted Trump's victory declaration, including just three in 10 Republicans.

In addition, 84% (including 70% Republicans) said that candidates should not declare victory before the end of the vote count.

And despite Trump lashing out at the electoral process on Thursday as corrupt, two-thirds of those surveyed said they trusted authorities to do an honest job.   

In declaring his victory at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Trump also said that he had won several states that have later been awarded to his opponent and assured that he was clearly the winner in Georgia.

As of Thursday night, the 16 electoral votes for that state were still in the air with a minimal close between the two candidates. 

For their part, the electoral authorities defend their processes from attacks by the president and those around him.

At a news conference Thursday afternoon, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said she would do everything in her power to ensure that "every voter, every candidate, and every party has access to a fair election. , free and safe ”.

Referring to the absentee or early votes sent by mail that have been the target of Trump's complaints, Boockvar said that "the strength of the integrity of this vote is unmatched."

He added that ballots sent by mail follow the same process as voting in person, with strict verification of the identity of the voter and the validity of the vote.  

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In an isolated event, in October, a man registered as a Republican voter was arrested in Pennsylvania for requesting a ballot for his mother, who died five years ago.

Local authorities stopped the fraud attempt, saying it was the first of its kind in 30 years.

Also yesterday, the president's campaign announced that it would sue Clark County in the state of Nevada for "reports of irregularities" that they had received, including votes from deceased persons and former residents that would have been counted. 

When a reporter for the MSNBC network in Nevada asked Richard Grennell, Trump's former director of National Intelligence, to show evidence of the thousands of illegitimate votes they denounce, the fellow member of the Republican Party got into a vehicle without showing evidence.  

When asked about it, the electoral authority of the county, where Las Vegas is located, denied any type of irregularity.

"We are not aware of any improper ballots being processed," said Joe Gloria, the head of the Clark County Registrar of Voters. 

Trump's warning that he will take legal action, even going to the Supreme Court, is not producing the effect he hopes.

[What can happen if Trump tries to achieve victory through lawsuits]

A Georgia judge denied the president's campaign attempt to disqualify ballots that a Republican observer said had arrived after the deadline.

The reason?

The observer did not offer any proof of what he said.

Also, the Trump campaign made a request to stop the counting of the last votes in the state of Michigan.

The judge in charge rejected the request because of Biden's advantage over the president.

On Wednesday, Noticias Telemundo and other media awarded Michigan's 16 electoral votes to Biden, who obtained 50.56% of the preference of the voters of that state.

A request by the president to suspend the counting of votes in Philadelphia alleging a lack of access to Republican observers was also not granted.

The judge in charge urged the lawyers of both parties to reach an agreement between them.

Without Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes, the president's chances of retaining the White House are virtually nil.  

In another almost anecdotal way in which Trump and his supporters have attempted to question the legitimacy of the electoral process, they denounced the distribution of Sharpies to Republican voters in Arizona.

The idea, they argued, was to annul those votes because supposedly the use of the marker would invalidate the ballots. 

What is now known as the SharpieGate has been, like the rest, denied.

Trump's false allegations of fraud mobilized his supporters On Thursday night his supporters were protesting in front of the Clark County Elections Commission building in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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But the president is not the only one who has been spreading falsehoods to create a shadow of doubt in the elections.

Members of his family also do it and have been categorically denied by the authorities. 

On Wednesday night, a son of the president, Eric Trump, shared a fake video on Twitter that allegedly shows a person burning 80

ballots

 . 

The video shows

 Virginia Beach city

ballots

burning as one person says they were all for President Trump. 

Virginia Beach authorities came out almost immediately to deny the post, explaining that the video papers are not actual ballots, but samples.

"They are NOT official ballots," the city said in a statement, which provided an image of the official ballots that carry a barcode.

Other Republican figures have also expressed concern about the attitude of the president, who declared himself the winner on Tuesday night. 

“I speak as a former United States attorney.

There is simply no basis for making that argument tonight.

There simply isn't, ”former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said in statements to ABC.

"All these votes have to be counted (...) tonight ... this is not the time to make that argument (...) I disagree with what he (Trump) did tonight," Christie said. . 

Benjamin L. Ginsberg, a veteran Republican election attorney who chaired the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, told CNN on Wednesday that President Trump should "let all the votes count."

Ginsberg also spoke of another false accusation made by Trump, who said that if he continued to count the pending votes, the Democrats would steal the election.

"We want the voting to stop," said Trump, referring to the count of pending votes.

"These are votes cast legally ... And for a president to say that we are going to disenfranchise those votes cast legally is truly extraordinary," Ginsberg said.

Source: telemundo

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