Election Officials Nationwide Find No Evidence of Fraud

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NEW: Election Officials Nationwide Find No Evidence of Fraud.
We contacted top election officials in every state, and here's what we found (w/@NYTnickc @reidepstein)
Frank LaRose, a Republican who serves as Ohio’s secretary of state, reported no serious irregularities with voting in last week’s election.
Election Officials Nationwide Find No Evidence of Fraud
The president and his allies have baselessly claimed that rampant voter fraud stole victory from him. The Times contacted officials in almost every state, who said that there were no irregularities...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/us/politics/voting-fraud.html

Election officials in dozens of states representing both political parties said that there was no evidence that fraud or other irregularities played a role in the outcome of the presidential race, amounting to a forceful rebuke of President Trump’s portrait of a fraudulent election.

Over the last several days, the president, members of his administration, congressional Republicans and right wing allies have put forth the false claim that the election was stolen from President Trump and have refused to accept results that showed Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the winner.

But top election officials across the country said in interviews and statements that the process had been a remarkable success despite record turnout and the complications of a dangerous pandemic.

“There’s a great human capacity for inventing things that aren’t true about elections,” said Frank LaRose, a Republican who serves as Ohio’s secretary of state. “The conspiracy theories and rumors and all those things run rampant. For some reason, elections breed that type of mythology.”
Steve Simon, a Democrat who is Minnesota’s secretary of state, said: “I don’t know of a single case where someone argued that a vote counted when it shouldn’t have or didn’t count when it should. There was no fraud.”

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