Citing a worsening Covid-19 outbreak in Hong Kong, Lam announced earlier on Friday that the semi-autonomous Chinese city will delay previously scheduled Legislative Council elections for just over a month by September 5, 2021.
McEnany said Lam’s invocation of its emergency powers to force reprogramming represented “only the latest in a growing list of Beijing’s unfulfilled promises, promising autonomy and freedoms to the Hong Kong people until 2047 in the Joint Declaration but- British. “
The White House statement followed Trump’s tweet on Thursday proposing that the US delay its general election, now less than 100 days away, due to its unsubstantiated predictions of widespread mail fraud.
After facing an almost universal bipartisan reprimand for filing a change to the voting date of November 3, the president appeared to backtrack on his recommendation in a later tweet and during comments at a White House coronavirus briefing.
“Do I want to see a change of day? No. But I don’t want to see a corrupt election, “she told reporters, stating without evidence that an election in which large swaths of voters will cast their ballots by mail would be” the most rigged election in history. “
Despite Trump’s repeated insistence to the contrary, electoral fraud cases in the US are extremely rare. Experts acknowledge that there are some slightly higher fraud risks associated with voting by mail when proper security measures are not implemented.
The date for the presidential election has been established by law by Congress since 1845 as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The President does not have constitutional authority to change the date of the election, which can only be rescheduled by Congress.
