'There is no evidence of rampant voter fraud in 2016, or really in any previous election,' Ellen Weintraub said.
Continuing, she argued that Trump's efforts to"put out information that has no proof, has no evidence behind it, it is ... damaging to our Democracy." Weintraub said that the false claims would cause"people to lose faith" and to"question the results" of elections.
"To be suggesting to people that if the candidate they choose doesn't win, that it's because of fraud, that undermines our democracy," she added. Trump has repeatedly touted conspiracy theories and claimed that he only lost the popular vote to his 2016 presidential opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, due to"rampant voter fraud." Although Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, he won more states than Clinton and a significant majority of the electoral college.
Last Thursday, ahead of a reelection campaign in New Hampshire, Trump again repeated baseless accusations of voter fraud."New Hampshire should have been won last time [by me], except we had a lot of people come in at the last moment, which was a rather strange situation," the president said,
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