Trump, recently, on Twitter, called the Florida Governor ballots "massively infected," and said Florida should stop counting votes and declare Republican candidates the winners. Florida's Attorney General quickly followed it up by stating, according to several reports, that a group of "invalid ballots were mixed in to the group of actual ballots, thus invalidating the results. Mo further investigation into the subject has occurred.
This statement is unsurprising, given the tendency of Trump to declare elections rigged with little to no evidence backing his claim up, such as when he made his unsubstantiated claim that 3 million non-citizens voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election. This also relates back to the issues of the 2000 Bush vs. Al-Gore election in which a controversy arose, yet again in Florida, about who had won the vote in Florida and whether or not to count "hanging chads." Nevertheless, maintaining integrity in elections by assuring the public of accuracy remains an integral part of democracy, as evidenced by Trump's actions an those before him.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-calls-florida-ballots-massively-infected-demands-end/story?id=59136811
This goes to show how history repeats itself. There were no serious ramifications for the president when he said the presidential election was rigged, so why wouldn't he claim the same for another election.
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