In the US state of Georgia, about 2,600 ballot papers were found during the vote recount that had not yet been counted. That report the American media. It would be a human error that has no impact on the outcome. Donald Trump celebrated on Twitter that one district in Nevada will organize a local election again.
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In Georgia, the votes are recounted at the initiative of the state, after Joe Biden won the election with only 14,000 votes. Uncounted votes were found during that recount.
Responsible Republican Gabriel Sterling said the matter is under investigation, but it is already clear that the votes were being held back by human error, not as part of a systematic effort to undermine the election. The votes found were not counted against the original figures because they were not uploaded from a memory card of a voting scanning machine, Sterling said. He calls the mistake “an incredible blunder.” ‘It’s not a problem with the material. It was a person who did not do a good job. ‘
Luke Martin, the chairman of the Republican Party’s local branch, called the mistake “very disturbing.” Still, he doesn’t think this is a widespread problem, and he is pleased that the vote audit revealed the error.
According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Most of the votes found were for Donald Trump. He would receive about 800 extra votes net. “It won’t change the final outcome, but it will change the percentages a bit,” said Sterling.
According to the newspaper, the incident is the biggest problem that has already surfaced during the recount of the votes. Monday afternoon, 4.3 million of the nearly 5 million votes cast in the state had already been audited, CNN reports. According to Sterling, ‘zero anomalies’ have been found in most places.
Death threats
Georgia Deputy Governor, Republican Brad Raffensperger, also said that recounts in other constituencies yielded roughly the same results as the first count just after the election.
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Raffensperger says in an interview with The Washington Post that he has been pressured by several party members, including Lindsey Graham, not to count legal votes anymore so that Trump can win. He even says he gets death threats, such as: ‘You better not screw up this recount. Your life depends on it. ‘
Trump accuses Democrats of faking elections and continues to claim victory.
The Trump campaign can also request a recount in Wisconsin on Wednesday, but it would have to deposit 7.9 million dollars in advance. Biden won the state with a difference of 0.62 percent, Wisconsin pays a recount itself if the difference is less than 0.25 percent.
‘Great victory’ in Nevada turns out to be nothing
Big victory moments ago in the State of Nevada. The all Democrat County Commissioner race, on same ballot as President, just thrown out because of large scale voter discrepancy. Clark County officials do not have confidence in their own election security. Major impact! https://t.co/TLHnFKNN6g
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2020
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Trump tweeted Monday that a ‘big victory’ has already been achieved in the state of Nevada. The fully Democratic County Commissionner election, which was on the same ballot as the presidential election, has just been thrown out by widespread voter discrepancies. Clark County authorities are not confident in the security of their election! Big impact!’
Trump wrote in his retweet of a message from the co-chair of his campaign, who himself referred to tweets from reporter Megan Messerly of the newspaper. The Nevada Independent. However, her coverage of the relevant special committee session makes it clear that what Trump is claiming is incorrect.
–An audit of the Clark County election found a total of 936 discrepancies (out of a total of 974,185 votes cast). This includes people who did not register before casting their vote, or who just registered but then did not confirm their vote on the voting computer. In the election for a local County Commissioner in District C, 139 discrepancies were found, Messerly writes.
Since the Democratic nominee committee member there won only 10 votes from his Republican rival, that local election will be re-organized. Responsible Joe Gloria stated that some discrepancies are always found in elections, but that this is only a problem if there are more than the margin of victory. According to Gloria, the discrepancies found can only have an impact on the outcome in this local election, due to the minimal margin. All other results of the Clark County election – including those of the presidential election – are therefore officially certified.
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