Elections official asks Trump for
evidence of voter fraud
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[February 11, 2017]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A member of
the Federal Election Commission on Friday called on President Donald
Trump to share any evidence he has to support a statement that voter
fraud caused him and former Senator Kelly Ayotte to lose in New
Hampshire in the 2016 U.S. election.
“The scheme the President of the United States alleges would constitute
thousands of felony criminal offenses under New Hampshire law,” FEC
Commissioner Ellen Weintraub said in a statement.
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Trump blamed voter fraud for his and Ayotte's losses in New Hampshire in
November's election while speaking on Thursday with a bipartisan group
of U.S. senators, saying that Ayotte's re-election bid was spoiled by
"thousands" of people from neighboring Massachusetts voting in New
Hampshire, according to media reports.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton narrowly won New
Hampshire’s four electoral votes by nearly 3,000 votes, while Ayotte, a
Republican like Trump, lost by only 743 votes.
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Weintraub, who was appointed by former Republican President George W.
Bush, asked Trump to "immediately share his evidence with the public and
with the appropriate law-enforcement authorities so that his allegations
may be investigated promptly and thoroughly."
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presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential
nominee Donald Trump in the state of New Hampshire at her election
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Trump said on Sunday he would put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of
a special commission to investigate voter fraud, despite numerous
studies showing that such fraud is rare in the United States.
Trump has said that fraud may account for his loss nationwide in the
popular vote to Clinton by nearly 3 million votes.
(Reporting by Eric Walsh; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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