These Secretaries of State all say you are projecting when you say, "Your problem is if it is fake you believe it."
U.S. Election Assistance Commission Chair Matthew Masterson, a Republican, when asked if he thought the 2016 election was rigged, said: “No. The process had integrity. It was extremely well administered. And in the end, the people’s voice was heard and the process served voters well.” He added: “[Voters] should know one fact: This election – this election process, this vote, the voting machines – were not accessed, were not hacked. The process was secure.”
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican, in response to Trump’s tweet, tweeted: “We conducted a review 4 years ago in Ohio & already have a statewide review of 2016 election underway. Easy to vote, hard to cheat #Ohio”
Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler, a Republican, in a statement: “Louisiana did not have any widespread irregularities or allegations of fraud during the 2016 Presidential Election Cycle.”
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, a Democrat, released a series of tweets condemning Trump’s fraud allegations:
? Jan 23: “Trump continues to falsely allege millions of fraudulent votes. Still no proof. Not an #alternativefact, just a #lie. #DefendDemocracy”
? Jan 24: “#Trump is dangerously attacking the legitimacy of free and fair elections and taking a jackhammer to the foundation of our democracy.”
? Jan 25: “@RealDonaldTrump should investigate Russian interference in our elections,not fake claims of voter fraud intended to suppress voting rights”
New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, a Democrat, said that the "allegations are simply not true" and that she was "extremely concerned that President Trump is pushing these voter fraud lies to justify future efforts making it harder to vote."
Dean Logan, the Los Angeles County voter registrar, when asked about non-citizens trying to vote, said: “I’ve never seen any incident of that… there are severe penalties. It’s a felony.”
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams, a Republican, in a statement: “Voter fraud is rare…”
Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a Republican, said: "We don’t have it [voter fraud]... We think we do it right.’’
Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, a Republican, said: “There is no evidence of voters illegally casting ballots at the most recent election in Nevada,”
Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea, a Democrat, said: "It is outrageous that the President continues to make unsubstantiated claims about alleged widespread voter fraud."
Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman, a Republican, said: “…as I stated when he raised this issue last fall, I am confident the election system in Washington state is secure and prevents illegal voting.”
Oregon Secretary of State Dennis Richardson, a Republican, w rote in a letter to Trump: "I'm pleased to report that in Oregon we have reviewed the processes and we are confident that voter fraud in last November's election did not occur in Oregon.” He also encouraged Trump to "return full authority over elections to the states."
Former West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant, a Democrat, tweeted: “there has been no evidence of millions of illegal votes.”
Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill, a Democrat, said: “To claim, without a shred of evidence, that millions of ‘illegal votes’ were cast does nothing but undermine people’s confidence in democracy,”
Former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, a Democrat, called Trump’s claim “a lie” and said “there is absolutely no reason” to think that fraud occurred in the most recent election.
Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, a Democrat, described voter fraud as “part of a national script” Republicans use to “make it harder for people to vote.”
Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, a Republican, said: "I know of no widespread voter fraud,"
Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos, a Democrat, in a statement: “...unsubstantiated voter fraud claims undermine our democracy and disparage the hundreds of thousands of hard-working election officials across our great nation.”
Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Democrat, said: “President Trump’s assertion that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election is completely unsubstantiated,”
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, a Democrat, called the claims “false and irresponsible” and expressed concern that the comments “could have the dangerous effect of undermining confidence in the electoral system.”
Arizona Secretary of State Michelle Reagan, a Republican, said her office “can say with… confidence that we didn’t have widespread voter fraud in Arizona.”
Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin, a Democrat, said that the allegations were "outrageous lies."
Meredith Beatrice, a spokeswoman for Florida’s Secretary of State, said: [We are] not aware of documented findings of illegal immigrants or non-citizens voting in Florida during the 2016 General Election. We have several safeguards in place to prevent elections fraud."
Wanda Murren, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of State, in an email: "We have no evidence at all of voter fraud. There is no evidence that undocumented immigrants voted in November."
Nikki Charlson, Maryland State Board of Elections Deputy Administrator, said: "In Maryland we have had no coordinated effort to impact the outcome of the election,"
Erv Switzer, Chairman of the Saint Louis Board of Elections Commissioners, said: "We had absolutely no indication there were any fraudulent votes cast on November 8th and no indication of any fraudulent votes cast in any general election for a number of years."
David Dove, chief of staff to Georgia’s Secretary of State, said: “We haven’t had illegal votes in Georgia,”
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman wrote in a letter to Congress: We did not receive a single substantiated claim of voter fraud… The lack of such complaints made directly to my office, as well as the absence of referrals from other agencies, leads me to conclude that voter fraud—the act of an ineligible individual casting a vote in an election—is a non-issue, at least in New York State.
The National Association of Secretaries of State, in a press release, stated: "We are not aware of any evidence that supports the voter fraud claims made by President Trump… In the lead up to the November 2016 election, secretaries of state expressed their confidence in the systemic integrity of our election process as a bipartisan group, and they stand behind that statement today.”
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