TRUMP’S CLAIM: That tens of hundreds of ineligible voters forged ballots.STERLING’S EXPLANATION: The precise variety of ballots forged by ineligibl
TRUMP’S CLAIM: That tens of hundreds of ineligible voters forged ballots.
STERLING’S EXPLANATION: The precise variety of ballots forged by ineligible voters is minuscule, and nowhere close to sufficient to alter the end result of the election.
Mr. Sterling additionally addressed extra particular claims about ineligible voters:
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Mr. Trump stated that hundreds of individuals voted regardless of not being registered to vote. That is unimaginable, Mr. Sterling stated: “You may’t do it. There can’t be a poll issued to you, there’s no technique to tie it again to you, there’s nowhere for them to have a reputation to correspond again to until they’re registered voters. In order that quantity is zero.”
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Mr. Trump stated that hundreds of voters died earlier than the election. Mr. Sterling stated the secretary of state’s workplace had discovered solely two who would possibly match that description.
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Mr. Trump stated that a whole bunch of individuals voted utilizing P.O. packing containers relatively than a residential tackle. Mr. Sterling stated that the secretary of state’s workplace was nonetheless investigating, however that everybody it had examined to this point had, in truth, used a correct residential tackle — only one for a multifamily residence or residence constructing.
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Mr. Trump’s marketing campaign stated that many felons voted. In actuality, utilizing data from the state’s corrections and probation departments, the secretary of state’s workplace recognized solely 74 individuals who would possibly match that class — and Mr. Sterling stated the ultimate quantity can be even decrease as soon as the workplace accomplished its investigation, as a result of in lots of circumstances, the particular person may need had their voting rights reinstated after finishing a sentence or would possibly merely have the identical title as a felon.
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Mr. Trump’s marketing campaign stated that tens of hundreds of individuals youthful than 18 voted. “The precise quantity is zero,” Mr. Sterling stated, “and the rationale we all know that’s as a result of the dates are on the voter registration. There are 4 circumstances — 4 — the place individuals requested their absentee poll earlier than they turned 18, however they turned 18 by Election Day. Which means that could be a legally forged poll.”
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Mr. Trump’s marketing campaign stated that a whole bunch of voters forged ballots in two states. Mr. Sterling stated that officers have been nonetheless investigating, however that if any such circumstances have been confirmed, it might be “handfuls,” and nowhere close to sufficient to alter the end result.
TRUMP’S CLAIM: That machines flipped votes, counting Trump ballots as Biden ones.
STERLING’S EXPLANATION: If this had occurred, Mr. Sterling stated, the hand recount would have proven it, and it didn’t present something of the type.
Discussing allegations of hacking, he added that poll machines and scanners aren’t related to the web. “Neither one has modems,” Mr. Sterling stated. “It’s very laborious to hack issues with out modems.”
TRUMP’S CLAIM: That election officers didn’t correctly confirm signatures for mail-in ballots.
STERLING’S EXPLANATION: The secretary of state’s workplace introduced in signature specialists, who examined greater than 15,000 mail-in poll envelopes. They discovered potential issues with solely two, and upon investigation, each ballots turned out to be legit.
TRUMP’S CLAIM: That, in contrast with earlier election cycles, Georgia rejected a suspiciously low variety of mail-in ballots.
STERLING’S EXPLANATION: The lower in rejections is attributable to a just lately handed regulation that provides Georgians an opportunity to appropriate issues, akin to a rejected signature, with their ballots. Each events had groups roaming the state and contacting voters whose ballots have been liable to rejection, however Mr. Sterling stated the Democrats have been merely extra ready for the duty.
TRUMP’S CLAIM: That election officers shredded ballots.
STERLING’S EXPLANATION: “There isn’t any shredding of ballots occurring,” Mr. Sterling stated with clear annoyance. “That’s not actual. It’s not taking place.”