By Arul Louis New York, Nov 7 : A county in Michigan has been found to have been diverting some of the votes cast for President Donald Trump to Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden.
The vote counting irregularity happened in Antrim county in the state where Biden has a lead of only 2.7 per cent.
While admitting that it happened, Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson asserted that it was due to an “accidental error” by the county clerk.
A statement on her website claimed that the “equipment and software did not malfunction and all the ballots were properly tabulated, but “the clerk accidentally did not update the software used to collect voting machine data and report unofficial results”.
The office of the Secretary of State in Michigan, which oversees the election process, is an elected office and Benson ran as a Democrat.
Trump has alleged that there was fraud in the elections which most of the media and politicians of all affiliations have denounced as attempts to undermine public trust in the election machinery.
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