President Donald Trump expressed his displeasure Sunday over the likelihood that it might take officials over a week after Election Day to count votes in certain swing states.
At his
campaign rally Sunday in Lititz, Pennsylvania, Trump discussed various factors that might undermine the integrity of the election and Americans’ confidence in its integrity, including lax or absent voter ID requirements.
“There is only one reason you don’t want voter ID. There’s only one reason, and that’s to cheat,” said Trump. “And they do cheat.”
Trump stressed that the expected failure of officials to count votes in a timely fashion is similarly suspicious.
“They are fighting so hard to steal this damn thing,” said Trump.
“We should have one-day voting and paper ballots. And I just heard that a couple of states may go an extra 12 days. How the hell do you have an election? You know, they spend all of this money on these damn machines — and paper ballots, you’d have the answer by 9 o’clock tonight.”
‘Not every state is created equal, right?’
Pennsylvania, the state with 19 Electoral College votes where Trump
apparently has a slight edge, is expected to take several days to…
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