President Donald Trump has alleged the “Democrat political machine” sent tens of millions of ballots to “unknown recipients” in the US election with almost no safeguards – allowing fraud and abuse on a scale never seen before.
He made the remarks during an update on his efforts to “expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities” of the “ridiculously long” November 3 election.
“While it has long been understood that the Democrat political machine engages in voter fraud from Detroit to Philadelphia to Milwaukee, Atlanta, so many other places,” he said.
“What changed this year was the Democrat Party’s relentless push to print and mail out tens of millions of ballots sent to unknown recipients with virtually no safeguards of any kind.
“This allowed fraud and abuse to occur on a scale never seen before.
“Using the pandemic as a pretext, Democrat politicians and judges drastically changed election procedures.”
President Trump said he was on a crusade to protect the election system which was under “coordinated assault and siege”.
“We used to have what was called election day, now we have election days, weeks and months, and lots of bad things happened during this ridiculous period of time,” he said.
“My opponent was told to stay away from the election, don’t campaign, we don’t need you, we’ve got it, this election is done. In fact, they were acting like they already knew what the outcome was going to be, they had it covered, and perhaps they did, very sadly for our country.
“The constitutional process must be allowed to continue, we are going to defend the honesty of the vote by ensuring that every legal ballot is counted and that no illegal ballot is counted.
“This is not just about honouring the votes of 74 million Americans who voted for me, it’s about ensuring that Americans can have faith in this election and in all future elections.”
Democratic party members dispute President Trump’s claims of voter fraud.
