Posted on 11/09/2020 7:07:26 PM PST by Ennis85
DONALD Trump and his supporters have made allegations of widespread election fraud in a bid to undermine the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory. Here are the facts.
TRUMP:
I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!
THE FACTS:
So far, Mr Trump has won 214 electoral college votes while Biden has won the majority with 279 – he needed 270 to win. Mr Trump has received 71million votes in comparison to Mr Biden’s 75million votes.
TRUMP:
‘I’ve been talking about mail-in voting for a long time. It’s really destroyed our system. It’s a corrupt system. And it makes people corrupt, even if we are not corrupt by nature, but they become corrupt. It’s too easy.’
FACTS:
There is no evidence the system is corrupt and electoral fraud in the US is very rare. Mail-in voting has been done in accordance with state rules. In some cases rules have been adapted to help people vote safely during the coronavirus pandemic.
TRUMP:
‘If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. If you count the votes that came in late, we’re looking to them very strongly, but a lot of votes came in late.’
FACTS:
Votes are not being illegally cast after election day. Almost half of US states accept mail ballots received after election day if they are postmarked by November 3. The deadline for how late a postal ballot can arrive varies from state to state.
TRUMP: ‘They wouldn’t allow, legally permissible observers. We went to court in a couple of instances and we were able to get the observers put in. And when the observers got there they wanted them 60, 70 feet away, 80 feet, 100 feet away, or outside the building to observe people inside the building.’
FACTS:
Mr Trump claims that poll watchers were not allowed in Detroit and Philadelphia but they were present in both cities. The Detroit Free Press reported that 134 challengers were present from each party on November 4, alongside 134 nonpartisan poll observers. In Philadelphia, the city allowed observers to be six feet from the first row of counters’ tables.
TRUMP: ‘[Democrats] mailed out tens of millions of unsolicited ballots without any verification measures.’ FACTS:
Registered voters in nine states (plus Washington DC) were sent mail-in ballots without having to request them. Five of these states did so because of the coronavirus pandemic. But security measures – such as signature and address checks – were put in place to ensure the correct people were voting.
TRUMP:
The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in Arizona on Saturday which claimed that machines invalidated ballots filled out with ‘Sharpies’ or marker pens.
FACTS:
The lawsuit has been dismissed. Social media users falsely claimed that their ballots had been invalidated because they were told to use the markers but election officials said voting with a Sharpie would not invalidate a ballot.
TRUMP:
Last night Mr Trump appeared to be quoting former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich in a tweet which said: ‘We believe these people are thieves. The big city machines are corrupt. This was a stolen election. Best pollster in Britain wrote this morning that this clearly was a stolen election, that it’s impossible to imagine that Biden outran Obama in some of these states. Where it mattered, they stole what they had to steal.’
FACTS:
It appears that Mr Trump is referring to Patrick Basham, director of the Washington DC-based Democracy Institute think-tank. It appears that he was referencing an opinion piece by Mr Basham which appeared in the Sunday Express yesterday. Mr Basham claimed: ‘Already, there is a mountain of evidence, direct and circumstantial, of widespread ballot fraud.’ There is no evidence of this.
TRUMP:
‘In Georgia, a pipe burst, in a far away location, totally unrelated to the location of what was happening, and they stopped counting for four hours and a lot of things happened. The election apparatus in Georgia is run by Democrats.’
FACTS:
This is not true. A press release issued by State Farm Arena, where the pipe burst, said it affected a room where absentee ballots were being counted. The state’s elections are overseen by a Republican – the secretary of state Brad Raffensperger.
FACT: UK Daily Mail is foreign press trying to influence a US election.
Any mention of “Debunked” = fraud perpetrator
Bizarre.
“THE FACTS:
So far, Mr Trump has won 214 electoral college votes while Biden has won the majority with 279 – he needed 270 to win. Mr Trump has received 71million votes in comparison to Mr Biden’s 75million votes. “
ANyone thinks Biden hiden in the basement with his money from his Chinese handlers, who couldn’t get 10 people at an organized event, is going to get more votes that the President who inspirect 100 mile long volunteer car rallies and harbors full of boats flying signs, packed stadiums etc. C’mon we’re not crazy. HUFFPO is crazy!
I probably heard that word 5 times in my whole life before Trump took office.
Now I’m into the thousands :)
Daily Mail is a Rupert Murdoch production I believe....
Lois Lerner’s Buddy just quit the DOJ since Barr wants him to investigate fraud..so yeah..you can bet there is some to be found
Need to mind their own d-— business.
Deny, lie and counter accuse. It is the time honored formula to get away with any transgression.
JoMa
i don’t see facts- i just see left wing talking points...
The DM has been enemedia since Trump came on the scene.
Daily Mail is part of the Murdoch, foxnews group.
TURN OFF FOX NEWS. PERIOD!
Media: “Debunked.”
Reality: TRUTH.
The Biden fraud seems to be a worldwide globalist conspiracy that lined up supposedly rightwing news sources like Murdoch and the DailyMail in advance. This is the scariest story since Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Why is it that every time I hear this oft repeated nonsense it reminds me of this? -
Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.
At least they left out “debunked”. Thank God for small favors.
we could fact-check this piece all day long, and prove it’s all weasel words from DM, which prove nothing about the fraud.
FakeNewsMSM do not decide US elections.
“Mail-in voting has been done in accordance with state rule”
Not in PA.
Maybe they'd like to finally find out what the motivation is behind muzzies slicing and dicing British citizens.
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