'Consistent over-count for Republicans' since 2003: GOP owns US vote-counting machinery
The GOP owns the US vote-counting machinery, an analyst says, citing the "consistent over-count for Republicans" in major elections since 2003.
American author, journalist and radio host Kevin Barret made the comments in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday amid the alarm sounded by President Donald Trump about the possibility of a rigged presidential election in November.
"Trump at the Republican convention announced that the upcoming election is likely to be fraudulent because he says that mail-in voting will create all sorts of opportunities for Democrats to stuff the ballot boxes with phony ballots, and therefore if he loses, it will have been an illegitimate election, which presumably might allow him to try to stay in office if he can get enough support from the military and other armed elements of American society."
Barret asserted that the president was "pointing the finger in the wrong direction."
"Trump was right about one thing, which is that the American people need to pay attention to the possibility that their elections are being rigged. But he's wrong about the way that they're rigged and they're not normally rigged by ballot stuffing," he said, citing several cases of "ballot stuffing in the past."
The political commentator, who has a Ph.D. in Islamic and Arabic Studies, further highlighted the GOP role in vote-counting in America, offering it as a reason why the exit polls used to be "largely accurate" before 2003.
"Republican billionaires own the vote-counting machinery of the United States. They program it in secret. And these black box machines pretend to count the votes, when actually since 2003, there has been a consistent over-count for Republicans in all of the key contested elections."
According to the latest national polls, Trump is trailing behind Democratic nominee Joe Biden, a prediction Barrett undermined.
"The exit polls have shown the Democrats doing up to three or five, or even more points, better than they actually end up doing on the supposed official vote count from the black box machine," he said.
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