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METERSeveral US authorities have rejected rumors spread by President Donald Trump that the presidential elections were rigged through the use of computer software. “There is no evidence that a voting system has removed or changed votes, or that it has been compromised in any way,” said a statement released Thursday by representatives of the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency and officials’ associations. state elections. has been.
Trump had previously referred to claims on Twitter that Dominion software had awarded 435,000 votes in various states to his eventual victorious challenger Joe Biden. The company and the electoral authorities have already rejected it.
The rumors could have been sparked by counting issues in some Michigan and Georgia counties. In Michigan, Antrim County made last-minute adjustments to its unofficial results during the census. A Trump Republican Party official claimed it was due to a bug in the software used. However, the authorities made it clear that it was a human error, which would also have been noticed at the latest during the mandatory final inspection. In Georgia, some counting computers had to stop due to software updates.
The nation’s major television stations and newspapers had proclaimed Biden the winner on Saturday based on the preliminary results of the tally. Most recently, on Thursday night (local time), television stations CNN, NBS, CBS, ABC declared the Democrats winners in the traditionally Republican state. Conservative broadcaster Fox News and the AP news agency had already declared Biden the winner there on election night. According to broadcasters, Biden won Arizona’s victory by a narrow margin of about 11,000 votes over Trump. Arizona has eleven voters to award. It is the first time in almost 25 years that Arizona has chosen a Democrat in a presidential election. In 1996, Bill Clinton won the state.
Yet Trump still refuses to acknowledge Biden’s election victory and speaks of massive election fraud. Trump’s attorneys have filed lawsuits in several states but have provided no evidence of large-scale electoral fraud or errors.
The statement by government officials on Thursday also said: “The November 3 elections were the safest in the history of the United States.” All states had paper receipts for each ballot so that each could be retrospectively reviewed. Georgia, where Biden is ahead with more than 14,000 votes, has already ordered a manual recount. However, the responsible Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was convinced that this would hardly change the outcome.
300,000 tweets alert
Meanwhile, Twitter has warned of over 300,000 tweets about controversial or misleading content surrounding the US presidential election. In 456 cases, these posts were completely covered with a warning, so users had to click first, as Twitter announced in a blog post Thursday.
The figures correspond to the period between October 27 and November 11. Warnings of both kinds had also been provided in various tweets by US President Donald Trump in recent weeks, mainly due to his frequent allegations of alleged voter fraud. In addition, the president had repeatedly transmitted false information about the corona virus.
