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TT: What is Trump claiming?
– It is part of the problem, rarely openly says what would be wrong and has not presented any evidence He spreads these ideas to his millions of followers to give the impression that something is wrong, without specifying exactly what it is. It cultivates a kind of “us versus everyone” feeling, says researcher Charly Salonius-Pasternak of the Finnish Center for Foreign Policy at the US Center for Foreign Policy.
TT: Are there any indications of electoral fraud?
On the contrary, in fact, those who work with the election and the counting of votes across the country have come out in various places and have confirmed that the election went well, there is nothing to indicate otherwise. The fact that the vote count is now taking its time is a sign that things are going well, if the result had been too quick it would have been concerning.
TT: Have there been traps and mold during the previous elections?
– In modern times, and on a systematic level, no. There is a lot of research in the field that has gone through elections one by one without finding inaccuracies at the system level, the errors that have been discovered have been applied to few votes and are basically due to the human factor.
TT: During a speech on Friday night, Trump claimed he would have won by now if it weren’t for all the wrong “illegal” votes. What can the president mean by this?
– Trump made similar statements after the 2016 election, when he said there were millions of false votes. What it means is that people have voted and claimed to be someone they are not, for example someone who has already voted or someone who is dead, or that they are non-citizens who have been allowed to vote.
TT: Does Trump have any basis if he claims that people cast their votes on behalf of others?
– When US research institutes together with The Washington Post newspaper in 2014 went through more than one billion votes cast in the elections between 2000 and 2014, they found 31 cases in which it could be suspected that a vote was counted even though the person he shouldn’t have had a chance to vote. However, it could not be confirmed that there were actually active attempts to cheat, it could also have been that the poll workers entered an incorrect figure into the system.
– When Trump says that it could have happened that people voted with someone else’s identity document, you can’t say that he guaranteed it never happened, but you can say that this is not such a terrible big problem.
TT: What could Trump mean by saying this?
– Inside every piece of effective propaganda there is a grain of truth, or so it rings true. Then you leave out an important part of the whole so that things appear the way you want. That may be the case here.
– Trump, for example, has claimed that people voted without identity documents on Election Day and that this would be a form of electoral fraud. This is an opportunity that currently exists in various locations in the United States. You can appear at the voting table without the required legal identification and cast a so-called provisional vote. However, for this to be counted, you need to return within a few days and show valid ID. If you don’t, the vote doesn’t count. In other words, it may have happened that people voted without an ID on Election Day, yet Trump forgot to mention that voting doesn’t count if they don’t have the correct ID.
TT: Trump has previously stated that postal ballots are not always postmarked, that is, with the date the vote was cast. It is true?
– It is true that not all votes counted are dated. This is in accordance with what is agreed in some states. When it became known that the pressure on the post office before this year’s elections would be extra great, it was approved that the post offices send the ballots in a package where only one of the ballots is stamped with the arrival date, to reduce work easily. So it’s true, but even this time a truth with modifications.
Ida Vanhainen / TT
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