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In a tweet Saturday morning, President Donald Trump made unsubstantiated claims suggesting that "tens of thousands" of illegal ballots are being used to change results in key states.
"Tens of thousands of votes were illegally received after 8:00 pm on Election Day Tuesday," the president tweeted, further stating that these votes are "totally and easily changing the results in Pennsylvania and some other tight states." .
Twitter quickly tagged Trump's tweet telling users that the post could be misleading.
Users must click on the warning to read Trump's tweet.
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Trump's tweet is wrong. Votes received after 8:00 pm on Election Day, in the form of ballots by mail, are not "illegal." In total, 22 states, plus the District of Columbia, count all ballots that are postmarked Nov. 3 or earlier, even if they are received after Election Day. Deadlines vary from state to state.
Specifically in Pennsylvania, the target of many false accusations of fraud, ballots received through November 6 could be legally counted as long as they were postmarked November 3 or earlier.
However, those ballots were separated and not all Pennsylvania counties have included these late-arriving ballots in their current totals.
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Republicans asked the US Supreme Court to intervene in Pennsylvania and stop ballots that arrived after 8:00 p.m. on Election Day until 5:00 p.m. Friday so they would not be counted in the totals voting ends.
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat, told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday that there were only a small number of those late-arriving ballots that would not be enough to influence the election.
Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman poured cold water on several Republican lawsuits that the Trump campaign legal team is currently pursuing in Pennsylvania, saying "there is no evidence of any fraud in Pennsylvania," during an interview with Alisyn. CNN's Camerota.
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