Trump orders probe into US election voter fraud
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The US president claims without evidence that as many as five million people could have voted illegally in last year's polls
President DonaldTrumpannounced Wednesday he would seek a probe into non-existentvoter fraud after claiming several million people voted illegally in the election that brought him to power.
"I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and even those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time). Depending on the results we will strengthen up voting procedures!"Trumpwrote on Twitter.
There is no public evidence of widespread illegal voting in the November election, andTrumpand the White House has yet to substantiate the president's claim.
Hours afterTrumptold congressional leaders that as many as five million people could have voted illegally, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said this belief was based "on the studies he's seen". Spicer never named the studies.
"I think the president has believed that for a while based on studies and information he has," Spicer said, adding thatthe Republican who claims to believe the election was riggedhasconfidence in the election's outcome.
Trumplost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton by around 2.9 million votes, but won the all-important state-weighted electoral college.
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The president has previously cited a Pew report from 2012 that concluded more than "1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters".That report did not provide evidence that dead people voted, or that others voted in their name.
Trumphas also cited an Old Dominion University study which suggested 14 per cent of non-citizens said they were registered to vote.
That study has been dismissed as having flawed methodology, with a sample size of under 1,000 and no link between being registered to vote and actually voting.
The NAACP, which claims to be America's oldest and largest nonpartisancivil rights group founded in 1909, claims: "This supposed widespread voter fraud is consistently used as justification for voting restriction that suppresses the votes of African-American and Latinos."
(With inputs from AFP)