Donald Trump is using his platform on his new website to continue to share his opinions about the results of the 2020 presidential election and the audits and recounts that are continuing.
On Monday he did just that, including sending his screed in an email to supporters, claiming that “non-existing votes” were found by investigators in the New Hampshire election audit.
“New Hampshire’s Election Audit has revealed that large-scale voting machines appear to count NON-EXISTING VOTES. State and local communities are seeking confirmation. It’s probably true, but we’ll soon know,” the 45th President of the United States said.
He then shifted his attention to Senate Minority Leader and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell and other Republicans for sitting on their hands.
“Why aren’t Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republicans doing anything about what went on in the 2020 Election? How can the Democrats be allowed to get away with this? It will go down as the Crime of the Century! Other States like Arizona, Georgia (where a Judge just granted a motion to unseal and inspect ballots from the 2020 Election), Michigan, Pennsylvania, and more to follow,” he said.
New Hampshire auditors did announce that some of its most recent findings are “large enough to account for discrepancies” with the 2020 election, WMUR reported.
Independent auditors examining vote discrepancies in the 2020 state representative race in Windham are zeroing in on fold lines across ballots as a potential explanation for significant changes in vote tallies from the November machine count and a subsequent hand recount.
The work of closely examining each of Windham’s 10,000 ballots from the November 2020 election is expected to last three days, but auditors and volunteers at the secure audit facility in Pembroke could be inching closer to an explanation for the discrepancies.
“Something we strongly suspect at this juncture, based on various evidence, is that in some cases, fold lines are being interpreted by the scanners as valid votes,” Mark Lindeman, an independent auditor, said.
The auditors said the fold line could have been interpreted by the scanners as a vote for a particular candidate and, for some reason, the majority of folds happened to be across the target of a Democratic state representative candidate.
“Wherever the fold happened to be was, I guess, most commonly through my name,” the candidate, Kristi St. Laurent, said.
The auditors believe that it could be the reason St. Laurent lost 99 votes in the hand recount and her Republican opponent gained votes.
“Because if someone voted for all four Republican candidates and the ballot happened to have its fold line going through St. Laurent’s target, then that might be interpreted by the machines as an overvote, which would then subtract votes from each of those four Republican candidates,” auditor Philip Stark said. “Conversely, if there were not four votes already in that contest by the voter, a fold line through that target could have caused the machine to interpret it as a vote for St. Laurent.”
The issue could be bigger because the fold line discrepancies could have affected more than just the Windham machines, where the audit is taking place.
“Throughout New Hampshire, you’re using the same voting machines, the AccuVote, and in principle, it could be an issue,” the auditor said. “It really depends where the folds are in relationship to the vote targets.”
In another message from Trump, he highlighted a Reuter’s poll that showed many people still believe that the 2020 election was not fair and square.
“A new Ipsos/Reuters poll ‘Beliefs Among Republicans’ shows 53% believe Donald Trump is the true President (I always knew America was smart!). 2020 Election was tainted 56%. The Election was stolen (and Rigged!) 61%,” he said.