Trump Continues to Spread Lies About Voting Irregularities Even After Electoral College Confirms Biden’s Win

President Donald Trump asserted that voting irregularities within the 2020 presidential election had been the results of defective machine machines, persevering with a string of false claims in regards to the voting course of a day after the Electoral School confirmed Joe Biden because the president-elect.

“Super issues being discovered with voting machines. They’re up to now off it’s ridiculous. Capable of take a landslide victory and scale back it to a decent loss,” the president wrote. “This isn’t what the USA is all about. Regulation enforcement shielding machines. DO NOT TAMPER, against the law. Way more to come back!”

Super issues being discovered with voting machines. They’re up to now off it’s ridiculous. Capable of take a landslide victory and scale back it to a decent loss. This isn’t what the USA is all about. Regulation enforcement shielding machines. DO NOT TAMPER, against the law. Way more to come back!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2020

Trump has typically claimed that Dominion voting machines had been compromised ultimately, however that has already been debunked.

The conspiracy concept originated from the pro-Trump One America Information Community (OANN).

OANN claimed, citing “knowledge evaluation” and with out offering any clear proof, that Dominion “deleted 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide.” A New York Occasions investigation discovered that there have been explanations for voting irregularities in instances in Michigan and Georgia that concerned Dominion software program.

“The Dominion software program was utilized in solely two of the 5 counties that had issues in Michigan and Georgia, and in each occasion there was an in depth clarification for what had occurred. In all the instances, software program didn’t have an effect on the vote counts,” the Occasions reported.

The outlet went on to notice that “Within the two Michigan counties that had errors, the inaccuracies had been due to human errors, not software program issues, in response to the Michigan Division of State, county officers and election-security consultants. Solely one of many two Michigan counties used Dominion software program.”

Points in three Georgia counties “had different explanations,” they continued. “In a single county, an obvious drawback with Dominion software program delayed officers’ reporting of the vote tallies, however didn’t have an effect on the precise vote rely. In two different counties, a separate firm’s software program slowed ballot employees’ means to check-in voters.”

United States safety businesses have debunked with the president’s claims, discovering no proof the election was compromised.

A statement posted final month by the federal Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Safety Company (CISA), a part of a joint assertion from the Election Infrastructure Authorities Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Govt Committees, revealed the businesses discovered “no proof that any voting system deleted or misplaced votes, modified votes, or was in any method compromised.” The assertion went on to consult with the 2020 basic election as “probably the most safe in American historical past.” 

Alan is a author, editor, and information junkie based mostly in New York.