Trump has claimed, without evidence, that millions of undocumented immigrants
illegally voted in the election.
Not exact matches
There is no evidence to support Trump's repeated assertion that he lost the popular
vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton
in November's
election because people
voted illegally, independent experts and analysts have said.
The report, from 2012, did not claim that those people
voted illegally in an
election, as it was written as an argument for modernizing the US
voting system.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer doubled down Tuesday on Donald Trump's false claim that he only lost the popular
vote in the 2016 presidential
election because 3 to 5 million people
voted illegally.
The Presidential Advisory Commission on
Elections is investigating claims initially made by President Donald Trump first made as a candidate that
votes were cast
illegally, which he later attributed to his loss
in the popular
vote tally.
Trump formed the
Election Integrity Commission in May through executive order to study «vulnerabilities» in the American electoral system after he made unfounded claims that 3 to 5 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election, costing him the popul
Election Integrity Commission
in May through executive order to study «vulnerabilities»
in the American electoral system after he made unfounded claims that 3 to 5 million people
voted illegally in the 2016
election, costing him the popul
election, costing him the popular
vote.
A Texas woman was sentenced to five years
in prison this week following her conviction for
illegally voting in the 2016 presidential
election.
There have also been many examples of people
voting illegally in elections, either because they were inelligible, or because they
voted twice or more.
After Hillary Clinton agreed to partake
in a
election audits with Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, Trump ripped the two women and claimed that his popular
vote loss was due only to «millions of people» casting ballots
illegally.
A sculpture of a locked ballot box at West Main and Canal Street, the site of the polling place where Susan B. Anthony and her three sisters
illegally voted in the 1872 presidential
election.
President - elect Donald J. Trump said on Sunday that he had fallen short
in the popular
vote in the general
election only because millions of people had
voted illegally, leveling the baseless claim as part of a daylong storm of Twitter posts voicing anger about a three - state recount push.