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November 13, 2020

Election Officials Across U.S. Refute Trump's Claims of Conspiracy to Steal Millions of Votes
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President Trump continues to insist he did not lose the November 3
election, even as election officials around the U.S. from both parties
say there's no sign of widespread voter fraud or other irregularities.
On Thursday, Trump proposed a wild conspiracy theory about election
software company Dominion Voting Systems, tweeting that hundreds of
thousands of votes for Trump were switched to Biden. There's no factual
basis for Trump's claim.

The Department of Homeland Security wrote in a statement, joined by
election officials around the U.S., "The November 3rd election was the
most secure in American history. … There is no evidence that any voting
system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way
compromised." Reuters reports that Christopher Krebs, the top
cybersecurity official at the Department of Homeland Security, has told
associates that he expects to be fired for refusing to back Trump's
false conspiracy theories. Ahead of the election, he posted this You
Tube video to a "rumor control" website set up by DHS's Cybersecurity
and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Christopher Krebs: "The election experience is designed to ensure that
technology is not a single point of failure. And there are measures in
place to ensure that you can vote and your vote is counted correctly.
You should have confidence in the integrity of the process, and don't
overreact to claims that exaggerate the importance of insignificant
events."