An employee of the U.S. state postal service US Postal Service (USPS) in the state of Pennsylvania has admitted to making up previous election fraud allegations, reports The Washington Post Tuesday (local time). Republicans contesting the results of the presidential election have referred to the claims several times in recent days.
The postman had alleged that an executive in the town of Erie had instructed employees to count late votes by post.
The man’s allegations have been referenced several times by senior Republican politicians, who, like US President Donald Trump, claim that the presidential election was fraudulent and legally challenge the results. There is as yet no evidence for this claim.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, among others, referred to the allegations in a letter to the Justice Department calling for an investigation into the election. Attorney General William Barr admitted in a brief Permission for federal prosecutors to investigate the alleged election abuse.
Allegations are ‘100 percent false’
The USPS employee allegedly admitted to postal inspectors on Sunday that his previous allegations were not true and signed a written sworn statement withdrawing the allegations, writing. The Washington Post.
The supervisor who accused the employee calls the earlier allegations “100 percent false.” According to the manager, these were allegations “by an employee who has recently been punished several times”.
The employee himself has Tuesday (local time) in a video denies having withdrawn his claims. He says he will soon provide more information about his allegations.
Biden: Trump’s refusal to admit loss is ’embarrassing’
Pennsylvania was one of the pivotal states during the Presidential election between Joe Biden and Trump. Receiving the most votes in the state, Biden reached the 270 electoral votes needed for election victory on Saturday. However, Trump insists that he is the real winner. According to him, voting fraud has been committed in the state.
Biden called Trump’s refusal to admit his loss Tuesday as “ embarrassing. ” “I don’t think this will benefit his legacy,” the president-to-be said at a speech in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.
On Monday, Trump’s campaign team filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania. He has also gone to court in other states. The incumbent president has not yet shown any evidence of substantial fraud.
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