2020年美国选举：众议院选举，民主党获得222席，共和党获210席，佩洛西再次当选众议院议长；参议院选举，形成民主党50：50共和党局面；国会正式认证，拜登以选举人团306票当选总统

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the point is, if someone can cheat on mayor election, it is possible for others to cheat on presidential one. However, it got caught even before it started

... 一个党派可能做的话，另一个党派也可能做。

选举舞弊是大罪。为他人当选，我不会去冒这个风险。

 

[uglyducking]

这与这次总统和国会选举有关系么?

VOTER FRAUD: Couple charged after submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms

Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Montenegro, 53, and Marcos Raul Arevalo, 34, have been charged with 41 counts of various crimes after they were caught allegedly submitting thousands of fraudulent applications for voter registration on behalf of homeless people.

thepostmillennial.com

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Georgia audit on track to finish Wednesday and affirm Biden win, official says

Georgia is on a "good schedule right now" to finish an audit of the presidential election by Wednesday and thus certify its results by Friday, a top state voting official says, and the vast majority of counties are reporting results that are "spot dead on" to the initial tallies or finding only...

www.cnn.com

fake news 说重点票，川普又输了一次

 

[billwanhua]

... 一个党派可能做的话，另一个党派也可能做。

选举舞弊是大罪。为他人当选，我不会去冒这个风险。

yes and no. 你不做， 不能低估了川粉有一颗勇敢的心。 开车撞示威者，拿枪杀游行者的事不是有人干。

 

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Trump shares Elections Canada tweet after falsely claiming machines led to voter fraud - National | Globalnews.ca

In a tweet Monday afternoon, Elections Canada said it "does not use Dominion Voting Systems."

globalnews.ca

Trump points to Elections Canada tweet to bolster baseless claims of voter fraud

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is pointing to Canada's voting process in an attempt to bolster what remain baseless claims from him and the Republican party of voter fraud in the U.S. presidential election.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

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Georgia audit on track to finish Wednesday and affirm Biden win, official says

Georgia is on a "good schedule right now" to finish an audit of the presidential election by Wednesday and thus certify its results by Friday, a top state voting official says, and the vast majority of counties are reporting results that are "spot dead on" to the initial tallies or finding only...

www.cnn.com

(CNN) Georgia is on a "good schedule right now" to finish an audit of the presidential election by Wednesday and thus certify its results by Friday, a top state voting official says, and the vast majority of counties are reporting results that are "spot dead on" to the initial tallies or finding only minor discrepancies.

Gabriel Sterling, the state's voting systems implementation manager, said Tuesday there are only approximately 300,000 ballots left to be hand-counted in Georgia out of the nearly 5 million cast in the presidential election.

Meanwhile, election officials from 29 counties across Georgia told CNN that they had already completed their audits and found no discrepancies with the results -- further discrediting President Donald Trump's lies about widespread fraud in the state.

The state is required by law to certify its results by Friday, which would thwart long-shot efforts by Trump to delay certification and potentially overturn the results of the state's election through the Electoral College. The President has repeatedly made unfounded allegations of fraud following his election defeat on November 3, and his campaign has launched legal challenges in multiple states seeking to prevent certification of results.

"The whole point of the audit is to prove the (initial) outcome was correct" and to "verify the winners," Sterling said.

In Floyd County -- where 2,600 uncounted ballots were found during the recount because they hadn't been scanned when the county tallied its early vote, an oversight that has been attributed to human error -- the election county board will rescan all early votes along with provisional votes that were found to be mismanaged, Sterling said. The updated results will give Trump a net pickup of 778 votes, slightly narrowing President-elect Joe Biden's statewide lead, which is more than 13,000 votes.

After the results are certified, the Trump campaign can request an official recount. Sterling said that the state of Georgia has already procured high-speed ballot scanners for all 159 counties to use in the event a recount is requested.

The following Georgia counties told CNN that they had finished their audits without finding any discrepancies: Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Barrow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks, Butts, Calhoun, Candler, Carroll, Charlton, Chattooga, Clay, Coffee, Cook, Crawford, Crisp, Dade, Dawson, Decatur, Dooly, Early, Meriwether, Murray and Oconee.

There were minor adjustments in a few counties, officials told CNN.

• In Catoosa County, one Biden vote was reclassified as a Trump vote after the audit.
• In Coweta County, a write-in vote for "Biden Harris" was officially added to Biden's count.
• In Effingham County, Trump lost one vote and Biden lost seven votes after the audit.
• In Oglethorpe County, there was a one-vote discrepancy, but officials wouldn't give details.

Trump and other Republicans have placed extraordinary pressure on Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, also a Republican, to in effect overturn the results of the election. The state's sitting US GOP senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, have both called on him to resign after accusing him without evidence of failing to "deliver honest and transparent elections," and on Monday night, Raffensperger alleged that Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, had hinted that he should try to discard some legally cast ballots.

Graham has denied making that suggestion and has since claimed he was only trying to inquire about how Georgia validates signatures on mailed-in ballots, though Sterling, who participated in the phone call, has corroborated Raffensperger's version of events.

 

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As Tensions Among Republicans Mount, Georgia’s Recount Proceeds Smoothly (Published 2020)

Election officials discovered about 2,600 new ballots, but they are not enough to affect the outcome of the presidential race in the state.

www.nytimes.com

ATLANTA — Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, on Monday accused fellow Republicans of trying to undermine the legitimacy of the state’s election in an effort to swing the results to President Trump, who narrowly lost the state to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and later demanded the hand recount.

Election officials in Georgia also announced Monday evening that they had discovered 2,600 ballots in Floyd County that had not been previously reported to the state, a notable but overall minor hiccup in what they otherwise described as a smooth recounting of the nearly five million ballots cast by Georgia voters during the presidential election.

The counting is expected to wrap up this week, and elections officials have reported few problems aside from the error in Floyd County, which is located in northwestern Georgia and voted heavily for Mr. Trump. Democrats said the recount had so far resulted in no substantive changes, at least none that would affect the lead currently enjoyed by Mr. Biden.

“The Floyd County situation was unfortunate,” said Gabriel Sterling, an official with the office of Georgia’s secretary of state. However, he added, “The majority of the counties right now are finding zero deviations from the original number of ballots.”

Mr. Raffensperger, in an interview with The Washington Post, said that Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was among those Republicans seeking to challenge legally cast absentee ballots with the aim of helping Mr. Trump take the lead in a state in which he is losing by several thousand votes. According to Mr. Raffensperger, Mr. Graham asked about possible ways that ballots could be disqualified, including whether the secretary of state could reject all absentee ballots in counties that had a high number of signature mismatches on those ballots.

A spokesperson for Mr. Raffensperger declined to comment when reached Monday evening. Senator Graham, speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill on Monday, denied that he had suggested to Mr. Raffensperger that he find a way to throw out legally cast ballots.

“That’s ridiculous,” said Mr. Graham, who said that his conversation with Mr. Raffensperger covered questions about Georgia’s system of using signatures to verify the identity of voters who use absentee ballots. “I thought it was a good conversation,” Mr. Graham said. “I’m surprised to hear he characterized it that way.”

Mr. Raffensperger, a lifelong Republican, was stung last week when Georgia’s senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, both ardent Trump supporters, called for Mr. Raffensperger’s resignation, accusing him of mismanagement and calling the election he oversaw “an embarrassment.”

Mr. Raffensperger has said he would investigate any allegations of irregularities in the election, but insists that the process was sound and the results are valid.

Mr. Raffensperger also hit back at Representative Doug Collins, who is overseeing Mr. Trump’s efforts in Georgia and who accused the secretary of state of caving in to pressure from Democrats. Mr. Raffensperger called Mr. Collins a “liar” and a “charlatan.”

The extraordinary, labor-intensive effort to recount every vote in every one of Georgia’s 159 counties began Friday morning, and counties have until late Wednesday, just before midnight, to complete the work. As of Monday evening, 4.3 million ballots had been recounted, according to the secretary of state’s office, out of just under five million cast.

The secretary of state’s office declined Monday to release the results of the recounts from individual counties. But over the weekend Patrick Moore, a lawyer for the Biden campaign, said that Democrats had been keeping tabs on the county-by-county results and had found that while some discrepancies between the original counts and the recounts had emerged, they were minor and would not affect Mr. Biden’s front-runner status in the state.

“As expected, the counties that have completed their audit thus far have shifted vote totals but almost imperceptibly, and thus far in favor of Joe Biden,” Mr. Moore said during a telephone news conference.

With the newly discovered ballots in Floyd County, Mr. Biden’s lead will go from around 14,200 to around 13,300 votes, according to Mr. Sterling. The New York Times declared Mr. Biden the winner of Georgia’s 16 electoral votes on Friday, joining a number of major news organizations.

Mr. Sterling said that the Floyd County officials discovered the issue in the midst of doing the recount. Mr. Sterling called the error “gross incompetence” on the part of the Floyd County elections director, and said that Mr. Raffensperger had asked the director to step down.

It was the Trump campaign that demanded a hand recount last week in a letter to Mr. Raffensperger. Shortly afterward, Mr. Raffensperger ordered the recount, which his office said is technically an audit.

Even so, Mr. Trump this weekend disparaged the Georgia process on Twitter. “Their recount is a scam, means nothing,” he wrote. On Monday, the president wrote in a tweet that the recount was “meaningless” because “Georgia won’t let us look at the all important signature match.”

This last tweet was a reference to a discredited argument Mr. Trump had made previously concerning a consent decree that helped establish rules for verifying signatures on absentee ballots. But it would be impossible to check signatures in the hand recount because absentee ballots arrive in an envelope with the voter’s signature on the outside of the envelope; those signatures are checked by county elections officials, after which the envelopes are permanently separated from the ballots to ensure voters’ privacy.

The remaining paper ballots, which are being recounted around the state, are thus wholly divorced from the process of signature verification.

Fulton County — Georgia’s most populous county, which covers much of Atlanta — reported that it had completed its recount Sunday; officials noted few problems as they processed roughly 528,000 votes by hand, an effort that involved hundreds of workers who gathered to plow through stacks of ballots in a cavernous hall at Atlanta’s downtown convention center.

Some of Georgia’s other large counties also reported on Monday that the recount was going smoothly. DeKalb County, a populous suburban county on Atlanta’s eastern flank, finished its count of 370,000 ballots Sunday, a process that one county official described as “seamless.”

Ross Cavitt, a spokesman for Cobb County, said that the bulk of his county’s ballots had been counted, but that there was still work to be done Monday. “Nothing that indicates there’s going to be a substantial change in the results,” he added.

Counties that have already certified their vote totals will have to recertify them after the Wednesday deadline if there are discrepancies from the original tally.

The state faces a Nov. 20 deadline for certifying the overall results. After that point, by Georgia law, the second-place finisher may request another recount if the difference in the vote totals is within half a percentage point. (Mr. Biden currently leads by 0.28 percent.)

That recount would be performed by running the ballots through scanners, not by hand.

 

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Large Michigan county unanimously certifies U.S. election vote after deadlock - National | Globalnews.ca

Biden crushed Trump in Wayne County, a Democratic stronghold, by more than a 2-1 margin and won the state by 146,000 votes, according to unofficial results.

globalnews.ca

 

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Giuliani returns to court, arguing Pennsylvania should block Biden election win - National | Globalnews.ca

In his first argument in federal court since 1992, Giuliani pushed false allegations on behalf of the Trump campaign that Democrats nationwide had conspired to steal the election.

globalnews.ca

 

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Georgia faces Wednesday night deadline to finish recount of U.S. election ballots - National | Globalnews.ca

The deadline for the counties to complete the audit is 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, ahead of the Friday deadline for state certification.

globalnews.ca

 

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Trump lashes out in new bid to tarnish an election he lost

President Donald Trump flexed the power of his office Tuesday to tarnish America's free and fair election, sacking the official who declared the vote the most secure in US history, even as more of his false claims of massive fraud were exposed as baseless in court.

www.cnn.com

 

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Trump pursues recount of 2 liberal Wisconsin counties

U.S. President Donald Trump filed Wednesday for a recount of Wisconsin's two largest Democratic counties, paying the required $3 million cost and alleging that they were the sites of the “worst irregularities” although no evidence of illegal activity has been presented.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[lindamy]

80多岁的老人，真是老当益壮，当选总统也78岁了。两党都是严重老年化。

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House Speaker Pelosi reelected as Democratic leader​

From CNN's Daniella Diaz

J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Nancy Pelosi was reelected to lead Democrats in the House during virtual elections that took place Wednesday.

"Congratulations to. @SpeakerPelosi, once again elected by House Democrats to be our fearless leader and nominee for Speaker of the House for the 117th Congress! #DownWithNDP #ForThePeople," the House Democrats account tweeted.

A full House floor vote for the speakership won't take place until the new Congress is sworn in.

The fact that Pelosi is expected to remain on as speaker is a sign of how strong her hold is over House Democrats even after they suffered disappointing losses in the 2020 elections.

Top House Democrats had confidently predicted they would expand their majority only to instead see a number of incumbents ousted by Republicans, who are now emboldened and on the offensive, though they are still in the minority.

Those Democratic losses have sparked tense infighting among moderates and progressives with both factions of the party pointing fingers and casting blame. That rift, and a smaller majority, may create new challenges for Pelosi as she leads House Democrats in the next Congress.

Pelosi has remained defiant even after the losses, telling reporters last week, "I take credit for winning a majority and holding the House."

Pelosi is expected to hold a presser at 12:30 p.m. ET to discuss the leadership.

 

[billwanhua]

Trump pursues recount of 2 liberal Wisconsin counties

U.S. President Donald Trump filed Wednesday for a recount of Wisconsin's two largest Democratic counties, paying the required $3 million cost and alleging that they were the sites of the “worst irregularities” although no evidence of illegal activity has been presented.

www.ctvnews.ca

地主家余粮也不多了，应该转7.9M查所有的地方