US elections: uncertainty grows over Trump complaints – politics

Certainly, there was a touch of apocalyptic mood in the White House on Friday. Even Republicans shook their heads at the president’s strange appearance, in which he lamented an alleged fraud and a stolen election victory. But there is one thing that you should not hide. The Trump campaign team’s attempts to take legal action against the counting of votes in the most recent controversial states are part of an orchestrated campaign to generate public pressure.

And even if you have barely tangible successes to show in court, you’ve already achieved a goal. Uncertainty in the US is increasing. The uncertainty about whether all was well in this election and whether the votes were counted correctly.

In Georgia, Trump’s people announced up to a dozen lawsuits. A district court immediately rejected the first after a hearing. A Republican election observer claimed to have seen that in the democratically dominated city of Savannah, ballots were still accepted after polls closed. He was unable to provide any proof. Claim rejected.

In Michigan, Republicans wanted to stop the count of suspected voter fraud. Given Joe Biden’s lead of nearly 150,000 votes, the judge said the manipulation was unlikely to have any consequences. Claim also denied.

In the state, the campaign also extends to the Senate elections. Republican candidate John James refused to acknowledge incumbent Gary Peters’ victory because Democrats refuse to recount. “If you’re against, you have something to hide,” James whispered. It also did not provide any proof. Democrat Peters won the election by 85,000 votes.

In Nevada, Republicans turned directly to the Washington Department of Justice (led by Trump loyalist William Barr) for immediate intervention. Apparently, more than 3,000 votes were counted by citizens who have long since left the state. Biden last led the Nevada tally with just 20,000 votes.

In Pennsylvania, Trump’s people failed to stop the count. However, they achieved minor successes. So they managed to reduce the distance between the election observers and the accountants, to six feet, just under two meters, as prescribed by the rules of the crown in the state. One of the election observers was expelled because he failed to meet the distance requirement, sparking renewed enthusiasm and leading to new charges. A top Trump adviser, Jason Miller, criticized that the state “magically displays sacks of ballots in corrupt and decrepit polling stations run by Democrats.” He remained guilty of evidence.

At the center of Republican anger in Pennsylvania is Interior Secretary Kathy Boockvar. State departments of the interior oversee the organization of elections in the US The president’s top campaign manager, Bill Stepien, accused the Democratic politician of bias and read a Boockvar tweet to journalists. “Using the title of president before the word Trump offends the office,” he wrote in 2017. Boockvar denied the accusation. There are no indications of electoral fraud. She wrote the tweet before taking office: “There is no room for bias in the Pennsylvania Department of the Interior,” she said.

In fact, the nonpartisan association of state election officials confirmed that there was no evidence of wrongdoing. In Pennsylvania, the print campaign was too much even for some Republicans. Senator Patrick Toomey called the allegations “unfounded.” Former Senator Rick Santorum, a former Trump supporter, also distanced himself: counting votes by mail “is not a fraud.”

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Authorities in other states also denied the allegations. Georgia’s election official, an avowed conservative, denied doubts about the proper conduct of the census in his state. “Accuracy is the basis for people to recognize the results of this election, whether they are winners or losers.”

Of course, there were also setbacks during the vote. There were paper jams in the voting machines. A burst pipe flooded a room where vote-by-mail ballots were kept. Some polling stations on the Gulf Coast had to be supplied with backup generators after the hurricane. Zeta damaged the pipe network. But those were the usual drawbacks of an election in America, so to speak. There have been no confirmed reports of attempts at targeted voter fraud.

The biggest mishap happened to the US Post. 150,000 ballot letters were left at distribution centers or delivered after the polls closed, 12,000 of them in the five states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, which have yet to be counted. In the next few days there should be more letters that have not been sent. However, Republican complaints have yet to be made public. In the case of mail-in voters, Biden’s vote share overall far exceeded.