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The world is now watching the final results of the US presidential elections. But there are still many votes to be counted. Meanwhile, Donald Trump declared himself the winner and accused his opponent of electoral fraud. But the millions of votes cast legally have yet to be counted.
Many in the opposition camp feared this could happen. While Biden claims he is on the brink of victory, Trump has begun to pressure the Supreme Court with unsubstantiated allegations of vote rigging and ballot theft.
Anthony Zurker of the BBC North America says the nightmares many feared are coming true, sparking outrage among opponents and leading the country into a long and bitter legal battle.
During the campaign, Donald Trump has been warning for the last few weeks that if the electoral margin is too small, he will accuse the Democrats of manipulating the elections to snatch victory from him.
On Wednesday morning, he proved that his warning wasn’t just word of mouth, he wanted to turn it into action. With hundreds of thousands of valid ballots yet to be counted, he was declared the winner.
‘We were ready to win this election. And to be honest, we actually won, ”Trump said.
Without presenting any information, he said there was ‘fraud’ in the vote.
‘It is a great fraud for our nation. Now we want to use the law appropriately. That is why we want to take the matter to the Supreme Court and we want to stop counting all the ballots.
His Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, also said the election will not end “until all the votes are counted.” “The Democrats are on their way to victory,” he said.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden are likely to have a legal battle over who will be the next president of the United States.
Election fraud in the United States
Both candidates can now demand a vote recount, especially when the margin of results will be very small. Since more votes have been cast by mail this year, there is a provision in US law that challenges the legitimacy of ballots sent by mail.
According to the campaign team of both parties, preparations for a legal battle after the elections have already begun. And both parties have formed large teams of lawyers to fight legal challenges over the vote count.
These legal challenges could eventually reach the highest legal authority in the United States, the Supreme Court.
That happened in the 2000 elections, when Republican candidates George W. Bush and Democrats Al Gore and Florida counted the vote on a Supreme Court order, declaring Bush the winner.
However, US correspondents report that numerous polls from past national and state elections in the United States have shown that while occasional isolated fraud has occurred, voter fraud is rare in the United States.
The Brennan Center for Justice published a 2016 study that found that voter fraud in the United States is less than 0.0009%.
Ellen Weintraub, head of the country’s Central Election Commission, said before the elections: “The conspiracy theory that there is an opportunity for fraud in the vote by mail is completely unfounded.”
But analysts say the chances of a legal challenge are much higher if the outcome gap is too small in the battlefield states that determine the outcome.
Edward B. Foley, a law professor at Ohio State University, told the New York Times: “We will not see a solution to this election until the losing candidate admits defeat. As long as the defeated candidate does not accept defeat and congratulates the winner, the court will have to resolve the dispute over the outcome.
If this fight for the presidency ends in the courts, it could last a long time and create many complications.
Since the United States is responsible for administering the vote and administering the elections, the state administration will have the primary responsibility for handling any complaints about the ballot. If a party has doubts about the result of the vote, it can file a request for a recount with the election administration or it can file a legal challenge in state court.
State voters can also file complaints about the count or validity of the ballot, just as this request can be made on behalf of the candidate. At the state level, there is a time limit for resolving complaints, which also varies from state to state.
There is a provision to take the case to the Supreme Court if the complaint is not resolved in state court. And since the Supreme Court is the highest legal court in the United States, the Supreme Court’s ruling in this case is final.
What happened in the rivalry between Al Gore and Bush?
We know that in the electoral results of 2000, the electoral margin between George W. Bush and Al Gore was 21 votes to determine victory or defeat. Democrat Al Gore received 28 electoral votes and Republican Bush received 246 votes. Only Florida had 25 votes left. The gap between the votes of the two candidates was so small that the vote count continued week after week.
George Bush’s brother, Jeb Bush, was Governor of Florida at the time. On November 26, he announced that Florida’s electoral vote was in favor of George W. Bush. A case was filed in the Supreme Court requesting a recount.
However, the Supreme Court ruled in Bush’s favor, ordering the recount to be suspended, based on the opinion of 5-4 justices.
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