A committee of United States election officials has rejected Donald Trump’s claims of widespread fraud in the presidential elections, saying there was ‘no evidence’ that the poll ‘was in any way compromised’.
The committee called the election the ‘most security in American history’, according to a BBC report.
Responding to Trump’s claim that 2.7 million votes for him had been ‘deleted’, the committee said: ‘There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised’.
Trump has declined to concede to the president-elect, Democrat Joe Biden, and has instead launched a flurry of legal challenges in key states, levelling unsubstantiated allegations of widespread electoral fraud.
His Democratic predecessor Barack Obama has described Trump as ‘the president doesn’t like to lose’.
Obama said it was regrettable, as this was ‘one more step in delegitimising not just the incoming Biden administration, but democracy generally, and that’s a dangerous path’.
The BBC reported that, in another development, a group of more than 150 former national security officials warned that delaying the transition posed ‘a serious risk to national security’.
In a letter, they urged the General Services Administration – the government agency tasked with beginning the transition process – to officially recognise Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris so that they could access ‘pressing national security issues’.