Berlin (AP) – U.S. The head of the international delegation monitoring the election says his team has no evidence to support claims that President Donald Trump’s mail-in involves absentee ballots.
Michael George Link, the German legislator who heads the OSCE’s observer mission in Europe, told the German public broadcaster RBB on Thursday that the U.S. At polling stations, they said, “On election day itself, we did not see any violations.” Visited.
Link said he was “very surprised” by Trump’s claims about postal ballot fraud because the United States has a long history of re-voting in the 19th century.
“It simply came to our notice then. We have not seen any violation of the rules, ”Link told RBB.
He said the U.S. Neither election observers nor the media have found any evidence of fraud, although the OSCE team on Wednesday reiterated long-standing concerns. About relieving some voters and the perverse effects of campaign finance laws.
Linkway said there were some instances of errors “but no systemic interference or even manipulation with the postal ballot.”
Trump has been arguing for weeks That mail poll is likely to be fraudulent. On Wednesday morning, with his advance on the key battlefield, Trump claimed that attempts were being made to steal his victory and prematurely declared himself the winner.
“It’s something that doesn’t need to be described as breaking the ban,” Trump told Link about efforts to stop the count. “It simply came to our notice then. The responsibility for the calculation rests solely with the states. ”
The Vienna-based OSCE, of which the United States is a member, conducts observer missions on major elections in all its member countries.
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