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No evidence of election fraud in the state of Georgia
02.25 a.m.:
In the ongoing recount of the votes cast in the presidential election in the US state of Georgia, there are no indications of discrepancies.
There are still no signs of election fraud, said the state's interior minister, Brad Raffensperger.
"We believe the ballot papers were counted accurately."
Raffensperger had ordered a recount of the machine evaluation by hand because of the tight outcome.
This should be completed by November 20th.
President-elect Joe Biden is in Georgia with currently around 14,000 votes ahead of incumbent Donald Trump.
The outcome in the state of 732,000 people was widely expected and does not change the overall picture.
With Biden already winning more than 270 voters, Trump couldn't catch up with him even if he won.
Biden wants to make longtime confidante chief of staff in the White House
2:10 a.m.:
US President-elect Joe Biden has decided who should be his future Chief of Staff in the White House.
The Biden team announced that the choice fell on his longtime confidante Ronald Klain.
"His deep, diverse experience and ability to work with people across the political spectrum is exactly what I need from a White House chief of staff as we face this moment of crisis and bring the country back together," said Biden.
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Ronald Klain (archive image)
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Biden and Klain have worked together in the White House when Biden was Vice President under Barack Obama: Klain, now 59, was Biden's Chief of Staff between 2009 and 2011.
He also worked for the Democrat when he was in the US Senate - and when Biden ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008.
In 2014, Obama made Klain the coordinator of US government action in the Ebola epidemic.
During the corona pandemic, Klain stood out as a critic of President Donald Trump.
A video in which he explains what a Biden government would have done differently in the pandemic and wants to do in the future attracted a lot of attention.
Biden has promised to make fighting the coronavirus pandemic a priority.
How does a Trump fan deal with defeat?
2:00 am:
The "Make America Great Again" project has been stopped for the time being.
Donald Trump's most loyal supporters have to accept this.
Our reporter met right-wing thought leader Gavin McInnes.
Read more here.
Trump spreads old video as alleged evidence of election fraud
1:40 a.m.:
Donald Trump posted an out of context video on Twitter and presented it as alleged evidence of election fraud.
The footage shows two men emptying a postal voting box in California.
Trump wrote about the video: "You can see ballot papers here! Has it come to this in our country?"
The Reuters news agency checked the video at the end of last week.
It turned out that video shows the collection of valid postal ballot papers that were posted on or before election day.
The video had been broadcast thousands of times on social media - even before Donald Trump picked it up.
Some users took it as evidence of alleged election fraud.
Los Angeles District officials told Reuters that although these ballots were picked up the day after the election, they were cast by voters on or before election day.
They are therefore valid and processed and counted.
According to a spokesman, the postal voting boxes were closed and locked at 8 p.m. on election day November 3.
The ballot papers from all ballot boxes in the entire district were picked up the following day.
Another corona case in the White House
1:35 a.m.:
Another employee in the White House in Washington tested positive for the
corona virus
.
The New York Times newspaper and CNN reported that the virus was detected in the political director Brian Jack over the weekend.
Jack had spent election night at the White House on Tuesday last week to watch the results being announced.
The White House (archive image)
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According to the "New York Times", the novel coronavirus was also detected in another presidential advisor.
The newspaper did not mention a name, and it was also unclear whether this advisor was in the White House on election night.
Previously, other close employees of US President Donald Trump who had also spent the night of the election in the White House, including Head of Cabinet Mark Meadows, Minister of Construction Ben Carson and David Bossie, head of the legal team, which had legal action against in several US states alleged fraud is going on in the presidential election.
Security experts warn against the disclosure of secret information
1.30 a.m.:
What does Donald Trump do when he's no longer President?
Intelligence experts fear that he could divulge sensitive information out of anger or vindictiveness - if he remembers it.
Read more here.
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