{"id":279695,"date":"2020-11-09T11:43:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T10:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=279695"},"modified":"2020-11-09T11:43:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T10:43:50","slug":"russia-election-chief-says-us-mail-in-voting-vulnerable-to-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=279695","title":{"rendered":"Russia election chief says US mail-in voting ‘vulnerable to fraud’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An official puts a mail-in ballot into a box at the San Francisco City Hall polling location in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. PHOTO: David Paul Morris\/Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Russia\u2019s elections chief said Monday that voting by mail in the US presidential election had paved the way for massive voter fraud, echoing rhetoric from the campaign of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Ella Pamfilova, the head of Russia\u2019s elections commission, said she had carefully studied mail-in voting in the United States and found the process vulnerable to fraud.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, the conclusion is clear: this anachronism in its American form leaves massive scope for possible falsifications,\u201d Pamfilova told the state-run TASS news agency.<\/p>\n

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Ella Pamfilova<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She cited the possibility of repeat voting, the unexplained loss of \u201cunwanted\u201d ballots, voting among people listed as deceased and a \u201clack of systemic control over the whole voting process\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump has refused to concede defeat to US President-elect Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Trump in particular focused his criticism on mail-in ballots which surged this year and tilted heavily to Democrats.<\/p>\n

Russia was accused of interfering in the 2016 US election to help get Trump elected, in the hope he would take a softer line with Moscow.<\/p>\n

Biden is expected to take a tougher stand and during the campaign slammed Trump for having \u201cembraced so many autocrats around the world, starting with (Russian President) Vladimir Putin\u201d.<\/p>\n

Putin is one of the few leaders who has not yet congratulated Biden.<\/p>\n

[AFP]<\/p>\n

Vanguard News Nigeria.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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An official puts a mail-in ballot into a box at the San Francisco City Hall polling location in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. PHOTO: David Paul Morris\/Bloomberg Russia\u2019s elections chief said Monday that voting by mail in the US presidential election had paved the way for massive voter fraud, echoing rhetoric […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4805,5894,477],"class_list":["post-279695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-russia","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/279696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}