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No Proof of Vote Fraud, U.S. Official Says: Election Update
Bloomberg News
7 November 2020, 17:00 GMT+8Updated on
The former vice president spoke to the nation Friday night, predicting an official victory soon. Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg
A new vote count from Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County could come around midday. Democratic nominee Joe Biden remained ahead in four key states Saturday. But with more ballots still to be counted, he had not yet secured the electors needed to get him to a majority. President Donald Trump continued to spread conspiracy theories about the election.
No Proof of Fraud or Tampering, U.S. Elections Official Says
There is no proof of voter fraud or vote tampering in the presidential election, despite claims from Trump and his lawyers, a member of the U.S. Federal Election Commission said.
“There is no evidence of voter fraud,” Commissioner Ellen Weintraub, a Democrat, said on CNN Saturday. “There is no evidence of illegal votes being cast.”
Trump continued to claim, without evidence, that votes are illegally being counted in Pennsylvania and that election observers aren’t being allowed to oversee the vote counting.
“Bad things took place during those hours where LEGAL TRANSPARENCY was viciously & crudely not allowed,” Trump claimed in a series of tweets Saturday morning that Twitter swiftly marked as disputed and potentially misleading.
Philadelphia Commissioner Al Schmidt, a Republican, has disputed claims that observers were kept at bay. Republican observers were there “the entire time,” he said on CNN Friday.
Trump has sued in Pennsylvania, Georgia and other states with close races that are still being counted to disqualify some ballots that he says shouldn’t be counted. But some of the suits have already been dismissed and others are unlikely to flip any state in his favor.
“The lawsuits seem to be for the most part going after a few ballots here and few ballots there,” Weintraub said. “Given the margins, doesn’t seem to be anything that could affect the outcome.” -- Laura Davison
Updated Allegheny Numbers May Boost Biden Lead (8:18 a.m.)
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said Saturday morning on CNN that there were about 20,000 mail-in ballots left to count there and that the county planned to release updated vote tallies around midday.
The recent tallies there have been trending heavily toward Biden, and a key question is whether the next batch moves the Democrat’s margin in Pennsylvania past the 0.5 percentage-point threshold for triggering an automatic recount in the commonwealth.
Biden currently leads Trump by a 0.4% margin in Pennsylvania.
The other big chunk of outstanding votes is in Philadelphia, a largely Democratic county that has about 40,000 outstanding ballots that officials have said could take several days to count. They consist of remaining mail-in and absentee ballots, along with military and overseas votes and provisional ballots. -- Mark Niquette
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No Proof of Vote Fraud, U.S. Official Says: Election Update
Bloomberg News
7 November 2020, 17:00 GMT+8Updated on
The former vice president spoke to the nation Friday night, predicting an official victory soon. Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg
A new vote count from Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County could come around midday. Democratic nominee Joe Biden remained ahead in four key states Saturday. But with more ballots still to be counted, he had not yet secured the electors needed to get him to a majority. President Donald Trump continued to spread conspiracy theories about the election.
No Proof of Fraud or Tampering, U.S. Elections Official Says
There is no proof of voter fraud or vote tampering in the presidential election, despite claims from Trump and his lawyers, a member of the U.S. Federal Election Commission said.
“There is no evidence of voter fraud,” Commissioner Ellen Weintraub, a Democrat, said on CNN Saturday. “There is no evidence of illegal votes being cast.”
Trump continued to claim, without evidence, that votes are illegally being counted in Pennsylvania and that election observers aren’t being allowed to oversee the vote counting.
“Bad things took place during those hours where LEGAL TRANSPARENCY was viciously & crudely not allowed,” Trump claimed in a series of tweets Saturday morning that Twitter swiftly marked as disputed and potentially misleading.
Philadelphia Commissioner Al Schmidt, a Republican, has disputed claims that observers were kept at bay. Republican observers were there “the entire time,” he said on CNN Friday.
Trump has sued in Pennsylvania, Georgia and other states with close races that are still being counted to disqualify some ballots that he says shouldn’t be counted. But some of the suits have already been dismissed and others are unlikely to flip any state in his favor.
“The lawsuits seem to be for the most part going after a few ballots here and few ballots there,” Weintraub said. “Given the margins, doesn’t seem to be anything that could affect the outcome.” -- Laura Davison
Updated Allegheny Numbers May Boost Biden Lead (8:18 a.m.)
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said Saturday morning on CNN that there were about 20,000 mail-in ballots left to count there and that the county planned to release updated vote tallies around midday.
The recent tallies there have been trending heavily toward Biden, and a key question is whether the next batch moves the Democrat’s margin in Pennsylvania past the 0.5 percentage-point threshold for triggering an automatic recount in the commonwealth.
Biden currently leads Trump by a 0.4% margin in Pennsylvania.
The other big chunk of outstanding votes is in Philadelphia, a largely Democratic county that has about 40,000 outstanding ballots that officials have said could take several days to count. They consist of remaining mail-in and absentee ballots, along with military and overseas votes and provisional ballots. -- Mark Niquette
