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Joe Biden is the president-elect of the U.s., with a broad lead in both the electoral higher and in the popular vote. President Trump has refused to concede, uttering baseless allegations of election fraud that take been amplified by allies and conservative media outlets. His campaign and others have gone to courtroom in six states, where Biden's full margin is more than 312,000, to challenge certain ballots or the certification of the vote. The president'due south legal team has yet to produce whatsoever testify in court to back up its speculative claims of widespread fraud.

Here are the facts about the president'southward efforts to question the fairness and integrity of the election, every bit well as updates on litigation. In each department, we've highlighted quotes so readers can see their significance at a glance.

The latest developments

  • The Supreme Court on December. 8 rejected a concluding-minute bid to overturn Pennsylvania's election results, a major setback to Trump's effort to reverse his loss. The president said he would join a new Supreme Court complaint, filed by the Texas attorney general, that targets results from four swing states.
  • Trump's legal efforts have been struck down in federal cases in Georgia and Michigan and in state courts in Arizona, Nevada and Wisconsin.
  • More than than 200 Republicans in Congress accept declined to accept a stand on Trump's imitation claim of winning the election.
  • December. 8 was "prophylactic harbor" 24-hour interval. Every state except Wisconsin met the deadline to certify its votes costless of legal challenges, which locks Congress in to accepting the votes of the state's electors on Dec. 14.

Was voting software from Dominion compromised?

Trump claim: Trump has spread claims that voting software is "used in states where tens of thousands of votes were stolen from us and given to Biden." He said in repeated tweets that Dominion Voting Systems is "horrible, inaccurate and anything simply secure," all of which were flagged by Twitter as disputed. He retweeted a groundless report that the voting-machine system had "deleted 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide."

Reality: There is no bear witness that whatsoever voting systems were compromised, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is office of the Section of Homeland Security. "The systems and processes used by election officials to tabulate votes and certify official results are protected by various safeguards that aid ensure the accuracy of election results," the agency notes on its "Rumor Command" folio that refutes disinformation and misinformation well-nigh the accurateness of the ballot results. "These safeguards include measures that help ensure tabulation systems role as intended, protect against malicious software, and enable the identification and correction of any irregularities."

The president fired the agency's director on Nov. 17 with a tweet that carried a now-commonplace disclaimer from Twitter: "This claim most election fraud is disputed." Christopher Krebs led successful efforts to help state and local election offices protect their systems and oversaw efforts to safeguard against foreign and domestic disinformation campaigns. He had countered the president'southward unfounded claims of ballot fraud.

Did software misallocate vi,000 votes in Antrim Canton?

Trump claim, Dec. two: "In one Michigan county, as an example that used Dominion Systems, they constitute that almost 6,000 votes had been wrongly switched. From Trump to Biden."

Reality: "The software did non cause a misallocation of votes; it was a result of user homo error," reported Michigan's secretary of land. "Michigan'southward elections were conducted adequately, effectively and transparently and are an accurate reflection of the will of Michigan voters."

Antrim County, which Trump won by 30 points in 2016, initially was awarded to Biden. Election officials questioned those unofficial results and establish human, not car, error. The county clerk failed to update the software used to collect voting-machine totals before sending the results. The fault caused a discrepancy in vote tallies for a few hours, according to an explanation posted Nov. six on the website of Michigan's secretarial assistant of land, and it was corrected.

An Antrim Canton approximate on December. iv ordered ballots preserved on 22 tabulation machines, which Trump attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani tweeted was a "big win for honest elections." However, the approximate was responding not to Trump campaign entreaties, but to a voter who argued that damaged ballots might have acquired a village marijuana proposal to win by a single vote, the Detroit Complimentary Printing reported.

Biden won Michigan by nearly 155,000 votes. The state certified the election results on Nov. 23 and awarded Biden all 16 balloter votes.

A Michigan lawsuit led by former Trump adviser Sidney Powell that sought to decertify the results was dismissed on Dec. 7 by U.Southward. District Estimate Linda V. Parker, who noted that the plaintiffs had not offered any proof that Rule machines had flipped votes from Trump to Biden, but rather brought "an amalgamation of theories, theorize and speculation that such alterations were possible."

Has the federal government investigated or constitute any testify of voting fraud?

Trump claim, on telephone call-in to Fob, November. 29: "This is total fraud. And how the FBI and Department of Justice — I don't know — maybe they're involved, but how people are getting away with this stuff — it's unbelievable. … You would call back, if you're in the FBI or Department of Justice, this is — this is the biggest affair y'all could be looking at. Where are they? I have not seen anything. … It's an embarrassment to our country."

Fact: Attorney Full general William P. Barr said December. 1 that FBI agents and U.S. attorneys take been investigating complaints, but "to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different event in the election."

Before the ballot, he had repeatedly echoed the president's warnings near the potential for fraud in mail-in voting, which many states expanded to offer voters a rubber culling during the coronavirus pandemic. After the ballot, Barr cleared prosecutors to pursue allegations of "vote tabulation irregularities."

Were at that place enough voting errors to overturn results in any country?

Trump claim, Dec. 2, in White House video: "And then we're not looking to show you 25 faulty or fraudulent votes, which don't mean anything because it doesn't overturn the country. Or l or 100, we're showing y'all hundreds of thousands, far more than than nosotros need. Far more than the margin, far more the law requires. … The corrupt forces who are registering dead voters and stuffing ballot boxes are the same people who have perpetrated i phony and fraudulent hoax later another."

Cobb County election workers recount votes by hand Nov. 13 in Marietta, Ga. (Kevin D. Liles for The Washington Post)
Cobb Canton election workers recount votes by hand Nov. 13 in Marietta, Ga. (Kevin D. Liles for The Washington Post)

Fact: State officials have certified ballot results in six swing states that Biden won: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In ii states, Georgia and Wisconsin, recounts fabricated no departure in the results.

On Dec. 7, Georgia Secretarial assistant of Country Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, recertified the land'south results after an audit-triggered mitt recount and a formal recount requested by the Trump campaign. Biden's margin was about 12,000 votes, a decline of a few hundred votes.

"Whether it is the president of the United States or a failed gubernatorial candidate, disinformation regarding election administration should be condemned and rejected," Raffensperger said, referring both to Trump's claims and to Stacey Abrams's 2018 Democratic run for governor. "Integrity matters. Truth matters."

Were representatives from both parties allowed to find counting of votes in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia?

Claim: Trump tweeted on Nov. 13 that he won Pennsylvania considering "700,000 ballots were not allowed to exist viewed in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh." He and Giuliani, his personal attorney, take continued to make the claim. In a court filing, the Trump entrada contended that "Allegheny and Philadelphia Counties alone received and processed 682,479 mail-in and absentee ballots without review by the political parties and candidates."

On Dec. two, in a 46-minute video from the White House, Trump repeated his claim and added: "There is merely one possible reason that the decadent Democrat political machine would oppose transparency during the vote counting. Information technology's because they know they are hiding illegal activity. It'due south very elementary. This is an egregious, inexcusable and irreversible harm that stains the entire election. Yet this unprecedented practice of excluding our observers, our vote watchers, every bit some people phone call them, occurred in Democrat-run cities, in key states all across the nation."

Fact: Under Pennsylvania election law, each party and candidate is entitled to have a representative "in the room" to picket ballots being counted, and state and local officials have said that all parties had access to the count. Allegheny Canton spokeswoman Amie Downs has said that "at no time were canvassing operations conducted without observers having the opportunity to see the procedure and the counting." Braced for conspiracy theories, Philadelphia authorities alive-streamed the count online. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) said on Nov. 4 that "all parties accept canvass observers" during the count, which connected for several days. Some 2.four one thousand thousand people in Pennsylvania voted by mail in the 2020 election, and their ballots could not be opened and counted until Ballot Day, co-ordinate to a law enacted by the state'due south Republican-controlled legislature.

In its ongoing federal suit against the state and canton boards of election, the campaign dropped its merits for legal action based on the assertion that observers were denied access to the count. In a revised suit filed on November. 15, the campaign again asked U.Due south. District Judge Matthew Westward. Brann to block the certification of Pennsylvania'southward election results. But a secondary request to block the certification of all votes where observer admission was allegedly restricted was deleted in the amended accommodate. And the new version stripped out all of the legal counts based on the allegation that ballots were counted in secret.

Trump's pared-down lawsuit then focused on allegations that Republicans were illegally disadvantaged because some Democratic-leaning counties immune voters to fix errors on their mail ballots. Counties take said this afflicted only a small number of votes.

In a ruling on Nov. 21, Brann dismissed the suit, writing that the Trump entrada had used "strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations" stitched together "like Frankenstein's Monster" in a bid to throw out millions of votes. A federal appeals court upheld that ruling on Nov. 27, writing: "Charges require specific allegations then proof. We have neither here. Voters, not lawyers, cull the President. Ballots, not briefs, make up one's mind elections."

Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar (D) certified Biden'southward victory on November. 24, after receiving official confirmation of the presidential vote totals from all 67 counties in the state. Wolf then signed a certificate selecting Biden's slate of electors, which was submitted to the federal government.

Did election officials manipulate signature-verification machinery?

Trump merits: Trump has repeated unfounded claims that election officials in Democratic-leaning Clark County manipulated a machine used to verify signatures to "allow large numbers of ballots to exist counted that otherwise would never have passed muster." In a 46-minute video posted online, Trump claimed that officials had "intentionally lowered" the machine's standard for matching a election signature to signatures on file. "This machine was set at the everyman level, according to one study," he said. "They said you could sign your name every bit Santa Claus and information technology would be accepted."

Reality: Afterward a nine-60 minutes evidentiary hearing that focused in large part on the signature-verification machine, a Carson Metropolis judge plant no show that the utilise of the and then-called Agilis machine was illegal, error-prone or had led to the counting of fraudulent votes. In fact, he pointed out, Clark Canton had used the same Agilis auto in the June primary, and Republicans had not complained until the eve of the general ballot.

Pro-Trump demonstrators, reflected in the window, protest outside the Clark County Election Department on Nov. 6 in Las Vegas. (Mikayla Whitmore for The Washington Post)
Pro-Trump demonstrators, reflected in the window, protest outside the Clark County Election Department on Nov. 6 in Las Vegas. (Mikayla Whitmore for The Washington Postal service)

Clark Canton Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said the manufacturer of the Agilis did not recommend any detail setting; the machine had arrived preset at a default level of 50. Clark County adjusted that level to xl, but even with that adjustment, the car verified merely the most obvious signature matches, about xxx percent of the full. The balance were verified manually by election workers.

The Trump campaign appealed the judge'due south ruling to the Nevada Supreme Courtroom, which declined to club any changes to Clark County's process, finding that the campaign did not take sufficient evidence to dorsum up its allegations. Then other Republicans filed a lawsuit making like claims in federal court, adding a new claim that the Agilis machine'due south failure had disenfranchised one voter, Jill Stokke. Stokke said she went to vote in person, only to learn that county records showed her as already having cast a postal service election. Her lawyers argued that was the fault of the Agilis machine, which had wrongly verified someone else'due south signature equally Stokke's.

Only at that place was no evidence that the Agilis auto was involved at all. In fact, when Stokke complained, officials reviewed her signature manually and found it to be a match. They told her she could vote if she signed an affidavit swearing that the signature on the mail ballot was non hers. She refused.

The federal judge also declined to order changes, finding "little to no evidence that the machine is not doing what it is supposed to do."

The Trump campaign, in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the election results in Nevada, is still arguing that the Agilis car is deeply flawed.

On Dec. four, Judge James T. Russell of the Outset Judicial District Court in Carson Metropolis vetted each claim of fraud and wrongdoing made by the Trump entrada in the state and establish that none was supported past convincing proof. The judge dismissed the claiming with prejudice, ruling that the campaign failed to offer any basis for annulling more than than i.3 million votes cast in the state in the presidential race.

The campaign "did non prove nether whatever standard of proof that illegal votes were bandage and counted, or legal votes were not counted at all, due to voter fraud, nor in an amount equal to or greater than" Biden's margin of victory, which was about 33,600 votes, Russell wrote.

The Trump campaign has appealed the decision to the Nevada Supreme Court.

Election workers wait on more absentee ballots to open and prep for scanning at the DeKalb County Voter Registration and Elections Office in Atlanta on Nov. 4. (Kevin D. Liles for The Washington Post)
Election workers wait on more absentee ballots to open and prep for scanning at the DeKalb County Voter Registration and Elections Function in Atlanta on Nov. four. (Kevin D. Liles for The Washington Post)

Does video evidence suitcases blimp with ballots or standard storage?

Trump merits: The president retweeted his own entrada account's tweet that "video footage from Georgia shows suitcases filled with ballots pulled from under a tabular array AFTER supervisors told poll workers to get out room and four people stayed behind to keep counting votes." At a rally Dec. five in Valdosta, Ga., for Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue ahead of runoff elections on Jan. 5, he said: "I don't run to see if people are walking in with suitcases and putting them under a table with a blackness robe effectually it. I don't do that. That's upwards to your government hither."

Reality: An affidavit filed past the primary investigator for the Georgia Secretarial assistant of State'south Office on Dec. 6 stated that a review of security footage showed no ballots were placed nether the table during the twenty-four hours.

Frances Watson wrote: "Investigation and review of the entire security footage revealed that at that place were no mystery ballots that were brought in from an unknown location and subconscious under tables as had been reported by some."

Afterward interviewing witnesses and viewing the security footage from the arena, Watson "discovered that observers and media were not asked to leave. They simply left on their own when they saw one group of workers, whose chore was merely to open envelopes and who had completed that task, besides get out."

Boxes that were packed with ballots that had already been opened only not counted were resealed and placed under the table for the next session of counting, Watson said in the affidavit.

Georgia originally certified its ballot results on November. 20. The state has completed its third count of the more than 5 meg ballots cast in the state and recertified the results on Dec. 7.

On Nov. 30, a top Raffensperger aide, Gabriel Sterling, said of the disinformation: "They're insanity. Fever dream. Fabricated up. Internet cabal."

He chosen on Trump to stop spreading false claims about fraud, saying in an impassioned speech that the rhetoric was leading to threats of violence confronting election workers.

On Dec. six, Sterling said he decided to speak out after receiving a telephone call from a projection manager at Dominion Voting Systems, the company that has been at the center of the imitation fraud claims by Trump and his allies.

Sterling said the managing director told him "in a very audibly shaken voice" that one of his contractors, "a young tech" in Georgia, had been receiving expiry threats.

"He took a job a few weeks ago. He's 1 of their better ones," Sterling said on NBC News's "See the Press." "I was going through the Twitter feed on it, and I saw it basically had the young homo'due south proper noun — information technology was a very unique proper noun, so they tracked down his family and started harassing them. And information technology said, 'His name, y'all have committed treason. May God take mercy on your soul,' with a slowly swinging noose. And at that point, I but said, 'I'thousand done.' "

Were thousands of ballots mishandled in Maricopa County?

Trump claim: The president has made a slew of false statements about Arizona's ballot processes. At a Dec. half-dozen rally in Georgia for its ii U.S. senators, he said: "A sample of 100 ballots reviewed by a judge found that a very small pct of these ballots — very pocket-sized, but when you wait at information technology, it was turned out to exist very large. It was tens of thousands of votes, more than we would've needed to win Arizona."

In a 46-infinitesimal prerecorded video released on Dec. 2, the president said: "In Arizona, in-person voters whose ballots produced mistake letters from tabulation machines were told to press a push button that resulted in their votes not being counted. Also, in Arizona, the attorney full general appear that mail-in ballots had been stolen from mailboxes and hidden under a rock."

A lawsuit filed by Arizona'due south Republican Political party, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Commission declared that "up to thousands" of ballots had been mishandled in Maricopa County, the state's largest, and would "prove formative." The suit contended that poll workers pressed or told voters to press a push button on a tabulating car to cast their ballots even after those tabulators flagged an apparent "overvote," in which the motorcar believed a voter marked two candidates in the same race.

Fact: Biden won Arizona'south 11 electoral votes by nearly ten,000 votes. A judge dismissed the lawsuit on November. xiii, after Trump campaign attorney Kory Langhofer acknowledged that only about 190 ballots had overvotes in the presidential race on the count'south ballots.

On Nov. 19, another country judge dismissed a separate lawsuit, also filed past the Arizona GOP, that sought to have Maricopa County redo a hand count of its audit.

The land'due south attorney general said his role investigated the unopened ballots, which were delivered dorsum to the proper voters, and found no wrongdoing.

The county certified its vote on November. twenty, and Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, certified the state's ballot results on Nov. 30. "This election was conducted with transparency, accurateness and fairness in accordance with Arizona's laws and election procedures," said Hobbs, "despite numerous unfounded claims to the contrary."

The country's Republican governor, Doug Ducey, also said the ballot was properly run. "The pandemic and covid-19 brought new unprecedented challenges for our state. Simply as I said earlier, we do elections well here in Arizona," he said. "The system is stiff, and that'due south why I accept bragged on information technology and so much."

Hours later, Trump lashed out at Ducey for the certification.

Shortly later the certification ceremony, Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward filed a formal election contest in Maricopa Canton court. She asked the courtroom to annul the election, challenge misconduct by election officials and widespread errors that had resulted in Biden wrongly being named the winner of the state.

Equally office of the legal proceedings, Ward'due south lawyers were allowed to inspect 1,626 damaged ballots that were "duplicated" — a process by which a bipartisan grouping of election workers determine the voter's intent and and so make full out a make clean, machine-readable ballot. They discovered a full of nine errors that, had they not occurred, would have netted Trump six votes. Applying that error rate to all duplicated ballots countywide would have netted Trump only 103 votes — not the thousands that Trump claimed.

A Maricopa County guess dismissed Ward's lawsuit, finding no testify of fraud, misconduct or widespread errors that would justify overturning the ballot. The Arizona Supreme Courtroom affirmed his decision on December. 8, in time to meet the federal "safe harbor" borderline.

The "challenge fails to nowadays whatsoever evidence of 'misconduct,' 'illegal votes' or that the Biden Electors 'did not in fact receive the highest number of votes for function,' allow lone establish whatsoever degree of fraud or a sufficient fault rate that would undermine the certainty of the election results," Master Justice Robert Brutinel wrote.

Arizona Supreme Courtroom rejects challenge from country Republican party

Was there any evidence of mishandled ballots, voter persuasion or inadequate observation of counting in Wayne County?

Claim: 2 GOP poll watchers contended in a lawsuit that some poll workers in heavily Autonomous Detroit coached voters to cast ballots for Biden and that some Republican poll observers were not given an acceptable opportunity to monitor the vote count, an allegation Trump repeated in remarks on Nov. five. They also contended that loads of ballots were improperly brought into the city'southward convention center in the middle of the night and asked the court to delay certification of the election results.

Fact: Wayne County Circuit Chief Approximate Timothy M. Kenny rejected the poll watchers' arrange. "It would be an unprecedented exercise of judicial activism for this court to cease the certification process" that would "undermine faith in the Balloter Organization," he wrote in a Nov. thirteen ruling.

I of the affidavits submitted by Republican challengers was "rife with speculation and sinister motives." Another person who submitted an affidavit had posted on Facebook that Democrats had planned to commit fraud, Kenny noted, writing that "his predilection to believe fraud was occurring undermines his credibility as a witness."

Since Ballot Twenty-four hour period, four lawsuits take been filed challenging the results in Michigan, three of which take focused almost exclusively on Wayne Canton, Michigan's most populated county and dwelling house to the state's largest city. Biden won the Autonomous-dominated county past 37 points over Trump, or past a margin of nearly 323,000 votes. He won the state'south sixteen electoral votes by a margin of nearly 150,000 votes.

Lawyers for Detroit and for the Michigan Democratic Party had argued in courtroom papers that about 100 Republican poll challengers had, in fact, been let into the convention center, but that some were not immune to render after leaving once the room filled up and exceeded its legal capacity.

"Every one of these attempts is a blatant try to undermine the voices of a majority of Michigan voters," Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, said afterward the estimate ruled. "No political party or politician can steal this election."

On Nov. 16, Michigan's Court of Appeals rejected a asking to contrary Kenny'southward ruling, allowing certification to proceed as required past Nov. 17.

Earlier on Nov. 17, the Wayne County Board of Canvassers failed to certify its ballot count, deadlocking two to 2 forth party lines. And then, in a dramatic reversal several hours afterwards, they struck a compromise and sent the certified results forth to the state board, which is also equanimous of ii Republicans and ii Democrats.

Subsequently that coming together, Trump called Monica Palmer, one of 2 Republican members of the board, she told The Washington Post on Nov. 19. She has asked to "rescind" her vote to certify the results.

Trump also invited leaders from Michigan's Republican-controlled state legislature to meet with him at the White House, where he asked them to block certification of the country's results. He has personally intervened with Republican leaders in Georgia and Pennsylvania, calling to ask them to reverse his election loss in their states.

What happened with the postal worker's allegation of ballot tampering in Erie?

Trump claim: The president brought upward again a baseless claim that postal workers take tampered with ballots. At his Dec. 5 rally in Georgia, Trump said whistleblowers in multiple states have testified to witnessing postal workers and election workers illegally backdating thousands of ballots, fixing ballots, filling out false birthdays, registering ineligible voters and much more. On Nov. xi and Nov. fifteen, Trump tweeted about a Pennsylvania postal worker, Richard Hopkins, who alleged that ii days after the ballot, he heard the Erie postmaster say to a supervisor that they had "messed up" by declining to backdate the postmark on ballots that arrived after Ballot Solar day.

Reality: Hopkins admitted to U.S. Postal service investigators that his story was not true, and he signed an affidavit recanting the claim on Nov. 9, according to three officials who were briefed on the investigation. He later recanted his recantation, and Project Veritas — the organization that initially aired Hopkins's claims — said he had been coerced past investigators into signing "a watered down argument drafted by them using their words." But the recorded interview shows that federal agents repeatedly reminded Hopkins that his cooperation was voluntary, and that Hopkins repeatedly expressed regret for signing an earlier affidavit attesting to the claims because it overstated what he witnessed. By and so, the Trump campaign had cited Hopkins's contentions in a lawsuit seeking to delay the certification of ballot results in Pennsylvania, office of a broad effort to overturn Biden's win.

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-South.C.) also had cited Hopkins'due south story of purported fraud in request the Justice Department to investigate. Attorney Full general William P. Barr subsequently authorized federal prosecutors to open up probes into apparent allegations of voting irregularities. The caput of the Justice Department's Election Crimes Co-operative stepped downwards in protest, telling colleagues in an e-mail that Barr'due south directive violated a long-standing department policy intended to prevent political interference in ballot results.

Xvi assistant U.S. attorneys wrote a letter to Barr maxim his authorization "thrusts career prosecutors into partisan politics." The signers, who are all assigned to monitor malfeasance in the 2020 election, wrote that they observed no evidence of the kind of fraud Barr addressed.

Did video capture a adult female stuffing ballots in Philadelphia?

Trump merits: Trump, without evidence, has repeatedly pointed to "bad things happening in Philadelphia." He raised this in his starting time contend with Biden, and in the days before the election and in the calendar month since, he has offered various nonspecific versions nearly 100 times. "Philadelphia and various areas effectually Philadelphia, they crook, and they cheat like crazy," he told Flim-flam'due south Maria Bartiromo. "The post-in ballots were — are a disaster. They sent millions and millions and millions of postal service-in ballots …"

A video purports to show a woman putting at least three ballots into a election drop box on a Philadelphia street corner. Mike Roman, Trump'southward campaign manager of Election Day operations, circulated the video with a tweet that said: "Literally STUFFING the ballot box in Philly! Yous are but allowed to deliver YOUR Ain ballot to a drib box!! Trying to STEAL THE ELECTION in broad daylight."

Reality: There is no bear witness that whatever wrongdoing took place. In an email to The Postal service's Fact Checker cavalcade, Philadelphia District Chaser's Role spokeswoman Jane Roh confirmed that her office had reviewed the video on Election Day.

"It is lawful for people to deed as agents on behalf of voters who cannot appoint in the procedure of voting for themselves — due to affliction, infirmity, etc. It is likewise lawful to drop post in a mailbox on behalf of other people," she said.

"Null in that video is conclusive of wrongdoing," she wrote, adding, "Social media accusations of election interference from the Trump entrada and the Philly GOP circulated since [Election Day], including posts near this video, were never reported to authorities — which arguably raises questions virtually the actual intent of these posts."

The Associated Press previously reported that the Trump campaign filmed people in the Philadelphia area depositing ballots. The campaign said information technology was an attempt to grab violations, while the country'due south attorney general suggested it might be illegal intimidation.

Did postal service-in voting create an opportunity for widespread fraud?

Trump claim: In a speech Dec. 2, Trump laid out "the decadent mail-in balloting scheme that Democrats systematically put into place that allowed voting to be contradistinct, especially in swing states, which they had to win." He repeated claims that he's made beyond the election cycle that postal service-in ballots were "sent to unknown recipients with virtually no safeguards of any kind [allowing] fraud and abuse to occur on a scale never seen before."

Reality: There is no bear witness that mail-in voting leads to widespread voter fraud. An analysis by The Postal service found but 372 cases of potential fraud out of approximately 14.half dozen million ballots cast by mail in 2016 and 2018.

Historically, mail-in voting has non favored either party. However, Trump'due south continual attacks on mail-in ballots did make Republicans wary of absentee voting.

Ballot security laws vary by state, merely numerous safeguards for mail-in voting exist in every state.

Virtually this story

Contributors to this report include Emma Brown, Anna Brugmann, Sarah Cahlan, David A. Fahrenthold, Amy Gardner, Tom Hamburger, Abigail Hauslohner, Rosalind S. Helderman, Meg Kelly, Glenn Kessler, Hannah Knowles, Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Keith Newell, Tyler Remmel, Aaron Schaffer, Jon Swaine, Reis Thebault and Elise Viebeck. Mail-in voting graphics past Kate Rabinowitz. Blueprint and development by Jake Crump.

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