Trump did not win the election. It was, therefore, a fitting conclusion for his lying tweet in which he devised the imaginary evidence in support of his attempt to deny Joe Biden’s victory.
Almost nothing Trump says about the election is true; Twitter has affixed a fact-checking label to more than 30 of its election-related tweets and retweets between Friday and Monday morning. And it is noteworthy that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the lawyer who put Trump in charge of his election-related legal efforts, has fired a barrage of similar dishonesty on Fox News, Fox Business and Twitter.
Here is a breakdown of some of the false allegations Trump made between Friday and Monday morning:
Trump has repeatedly attacked the validity of the election results, tweet that it was a “RIGGED ELECTION”, a “Rigged and corrupt election“and a”Rigged Election Hoax“He too tweeted that it was the “most fraudulent election in history” and that the results were is “False.”
Facts first: None of this is true. The election has not been completed, and there is no evidence of fraud large enough to change the outcome. Officials from the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security, along with state election officials, said in a statement last week: “The November 3 election was the safest in American history.”
The security of ballot papers
Trump tweeted that there are “millions of ballots changed by Democrats just for Democrats.”
Facts first: This is false. There is no evidence that millions of ballots have been changed by Democrats. In fact, there is currently no evidence that ballots were changed by anyone wrong.
Technical errors
Trump tweeted, “All the mechanical ‘mistakes’ that took place on election night were really THEY who were caught stealing votes.”
Facts first: Again, not true. Election Day mistakes is unfortunate but normal, and there is no evidence that anyone tried to use voice technology. In the statement last week, Trump administration officials and state election officials said in bold: “There is no evidence that any voting system removed votes or lost votes, or changed votes, or that it was compromised in any way.”
Voting deadlines
Trump assert that there was “a vote after the election was over.”
Facts first: There is no evidence that people voted after the election was over. As in previous elections, some states accepted votes, including military ballots, which were received by the polling stations after election day – but they had to posted on or before election day.
Philadelphia
Trump quoted a 1994 article on the absence of ballot papers in a 1993 Philadelphia state Senate election; the fraud resulted in a judge taking the rare step of invalidating the Democrat’s apparent victory and ordering the Republican apparent loser to fill the seat. Trump closed tweeted, “Wow. That’s exactly what happened to us. Great courage by judge!”
Facts first: This is false. There is no evidence of a fraud scheme in Philadelphia during the 2020 election.
Observers in Pennsylvania
Trump tweeted, “700,000 ballots are not allowed to be viewed in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, which means we are winning the state of Pennsylvania based on our great Constitution!”
Facts first: This is nonsense. It is not true that representatives of Trump’s campaign were not allowed to hold ballots in cities in Pennsylvania; A Trump campaign lawyer has admitted in court that the observers of the campaign were allowed to watch in Philadelphia. And even if Trump observers were, hypothetically, improperly banned, nothing in the Constitution would make Trump the automatic winner of a state in which he routes with more than 65,000 votes as the count continues.
Voice viewers are allowed throughout the state of Pennsylvania.
Poll viewers elsewhere
Trump has also made more general allegations about his observers being allegedly banned – argue in one tweet that the election was partially closed because ‘NO VOTERS OR WATCHERS were allowed’.
Facts first: Even if Pennsylvania is only left aside, it is not true that no observers were allowed. Observers of Trump campaigns have been allowed wherever observers of Biden campaigns have been allowed. For example, CNN reporters have seen Republican observers at locations in Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Dominion Voting Systems
Trump assert that the election was ‘stolen’ in part by a voting equipment and software company, Dominion Voting Systems, he suggested that he be biased against him and also has “trampling equipment.”
Facts first: There is no evidence of any violation by Dominion and no evidence that problems with Dominion’s technology affect the voices. While one Georgia province has experienced delays in reporting its results due to apparent problems with the company’s systems, other isolated problems allegedly linked to Dominion were actually caused by human error.
“There were no errors with the Dominion software, and the ballots were accurately tabulated. The results are 100% reviewable,” Dominion said in a statement last week, adding: “No credible reports or evidence of any software issues exist. Not. “
Once again, the Trump administration said in a statement last week: “There is no evidence that any voting system has removed or lost votes, changed votes or been endangered in any way.”
Dominion, a Canadian company founded in 2002 with US headquarters in Denver, is the second largest provider of voice technology in the US, according to a 2017 report by the Wharton Public Policy Initiative of the University of Pennsylvania. You can read a longer fact check here.
Georgia and signatures
Trump has repeatedly criticized Georgia’s ongoing audit of the presidential election there, in which all ballots are recovered by hand. Trump tweeted, “The fake story going on in Georgia means nothing, because they do not allow signatures to be viewed and verified. Break the unconstitutional consent decision!”
Facts first: The Georgian audit is by no means false. While it is true that the reprocessing of the state does not involve signature verification, the signature of the voters has been verified twice previously the ballots were included in the count in the first place – such as the Secretary of State for Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, has explain.
Georgia residents’ signatures are verified twice, first when they request an absent ballot and the second time when they cast the ballot. When they submit the vote, they sign the outer envelope – not the vote itself. Once the country verifies the signature on the envelope, the vote is divorced out of the envelope before the vote is included in the count – so no individual ballot paper can be linked to an individual signature in a retelling, even if someone wanted to violate the American principle of the secret ballot.
The ‘Consent Decision’ that Trump complained about is a March-March legal hearing between the state and the Democratic Party, which did not prevent the verification of signatures. Rather, it establishes rules on how and when Georgia voters should be contacted about ballot papers rejected due to signing issues (and other issues), so that they have time to resolve these issues before the count is finalized.
This story has been updated to include Trump’s tweet about Georgia’s election narrative.
CNN’s Casey Tolan contributed to this article.