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Washington (AFP) - Conspiracy-endorsing US politicians have amped up their rhetoric against voting machines as two swing state counties moved to allow hand counting ahead of next week's midterm election -- at the risk of stoking doubt about polling accuracy. The contentious Republican push for hand counting -- which US experts consider often less accurate than machine counting and prone to delays -- has gained traction since Donald Trump falsely asserted that voter fraud led to his 2020 election defeat. The rhetoric got a fresh boost last week when officials in rural Cochise County in the batt...
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Washington (AFP) - Democrat Joe Biden's election margin over President Donald Trump widened to more than seven million votes Thursday even as Trump and supporters persisted in claims of fraud. One month after the November 3 election, new local tallies from New York drove victor Biden's total to 81,264,673 votes, compared to Trump's 74,210,838, with a total 158.4 million votes counted so far, according to data compiled by the Cook Political Report. That gave Biden a solid 4.4 percentage point margin over the Republican president. Biden has captured 306 electoral votes for his victories in indiv...
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Washington (AFP) - A slow grind of ballot counting has held the United States and the world in suspense since Tuesday's presidential election.Fresh updates were coming in at a painful rate of a few thousand votes at a time, so why is it taking so long?"Fast is great, and we appreciate fast. We more appreciate accuracy," said Gabriel Sterling, an elections official in Georgia.The Covid mail-inWorries about spreading Covid-19 pushed many to embrace voting by mail for the first time.Some states have been overwhelmed by the volume of mailed-in ballots, which are expected to top 70 million out of m...
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Washington (AFP) - US elections were easier before, when most people voted in polling stations and their choices were automatically tallied by machine.This year, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, voting by mail is soaring, posing manpower, technical and legal challenges across thousands of election jurisdictions, each with its own procedures and rules.If the November 3 election between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden is close, many expect legal battles that, like in 2000, could go to the Supreme Court.Polls show that far more Democrats than Republicans are likely to vote by mail, and Trum...
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