United States: Trump calls for new Texas vote counts
Donald Trump questions the results of Harris County, after the recount of votes in that of Maricopa, Arizona.
REUTERS - Caitlin O'Hara
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A report presented to the Arizona Senate following the new study of the ballots in Maricopa County by the pro-Trump Cyber Ninjas company is final: Donald Trump has lost well and even a little more than what had been counted as a result of the election.
Not to be outdone, the former president asked, this September 23, the governor of Texas to proceed to a new count in the counties of Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth, of the counties democrats, and in Plano where he had won.
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Thomas Harms
Harris County election officials, which includes Houston, were astonished when they heard from the media that a new count was being conducted.
Especially since, for the moment, no official request has been communicated, nor any directive.
According to Lina Hidalgo, head of Harris County, these are far-fetched theories: “
These are conspiratorial inventions,
” she criticizes.
Politics is what it is, but it is not possible that a party's strategy is to destroy everything when their candidate does not win.
This is how we kill democracy
.
"
In the Republicans' sights is the fact that Houston had implemented in the November 2020 presidential election the vote from his car or the opening of the polls all night.
The party would like to prove that these innovations have led to fraud.
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These novelties have been prohibited since the vote in early September of the new Texas electoral law.
Yet the state's Republican authorities had described the November 2020 elections in this city as safe and trouble-free.
Donald Trump, at the origin of the request in Texas, had also questioned the results of Maricopa County, Arizona.
But the Cyber Ninjas company's audit validates Joe Biden's victory in Maricopa and even counted 260 fewer votes in favor of Donald Trump.
Republican Bill Gates, the head of the election in that county, is now asking his party members to go ahead and stop talking about 2020. “
It's a sham trial, like under the Soviet era, he
attacked.
It is not democracy, but an attempt to steal an election or cast doubt on our electoral system.
"
But Donald Trump does not budge: in a press release, he denounces evidence of fraud that the media would hide.
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