After more than 4 Millions Americans signed a petition to stop Donald Trump from becoming US president. Current President Obama has
signed Executive Order 13805, which orders a full recount of all votes
cast in the election and calls for a special election to be held on
December 19th.
Obama signed the order in response to the concerns of thousands of
voters across the country who said that they were prevented from casting
a ballot on election day, too many absentee ballots have not been found
or counted, equipment failures, as well as concerns that some members
of the electoral college may have acted unethically.
Obama said “People all over the country have been flooding my office with calls,
telling my staff of horror stories about being harassed and intimidated
by poll workers, Many have even said that they
were flat out denied entry into the voting booths to cast their ballots
if they were wearing a Hillary Clinton shirt or other signs showing
support for her as President. This was especially bad in areas of
Florida and North Carolina where there are high numbers of Latino and
African American voters.
We must investigate these claims.
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The margin of victory is too close to call, and the outcome of this
election is too important. There is just too many legal challenges in
too many states to just call this a victory for Trump.” Under the President’s order, the votes cast in all precincts nationwide
will be recounted, and all poll workers who took part in Tuesday’s
election will be subjected to strict background checks.
This process is
expected to take 30 days. In precincts where the Department of Justice
has cause to believe that voter suppression has occurred, new elections
will be held on Dec. 19th, with those results being used to help
determine who will represent the individual states in the electoral
college
Not surprisingly, Donald Trump is not happy with the president’s
decision.
_ “Crooked Hillary lost this election fair and square. They tried to rig
this election against me, but the American people didn’t allow that to
happen.
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Source: ABCNEWS
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