The US Presidential election results that brought in Donald Trump as the president-elect of America is being investigated.
Donald Trump and Barack Obama
Following the results of Tuesday night’s election, 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.
According to ABS, 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.
“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,” Obama told reporters.
“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. 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. President Obama doesn’t care about what the American
people want. I said the system was rigged all along, and this proves I
was right,” Trump said.
The president also said that the DOJ will be taking a close look at the members of the electoral college.
“We have received information from a very reliable source that
suggests there may have been some collusion between the members of the
electoral college and poll workers in certain swing states. We still
need to investigate these claims, but if they are true, we will take all
the appropriate actions necessary.”
Paul Horner, a professor of political science at UCLA, believes
that the issues with the electoral college run much deeper that this
election.
“Most people feel that it is their right as citizens to pick
the president of the United States, but there is nothing in the
constitution that says that. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by
more than 200,000 votes, but because of the electoral college, she still
lost. That decision is reserved solely for the 538 electors who meet in
their respective states on December 19th. What the people are actually
voting for are their states’ electors, not for the President. Though the
system is odd and unfair, it has persisted because many insist that it
works just fine as it is, with the winner of the popular and electoral
vote usually matching. That does not mean, however, that it will
continue to work just fine in the future. The way the system is set up
could cause it to malfunction in some potentially terrifying ways, this
recent election being one of them.”
Political Analyst Matt Daemon told ABC News that he agrees with the
President’s Executive Order and said that he would like to see the
electoral college done away with altogether.
“[The electoral college] is a f—king joke; we should be using
the popular vote instead. It may have made sense in 1788, but so did the
three fifths compromise. Everyone should have an equal vote, and that’s
just not the case with the electoral college. You know what the
electoral college gave us? It gave us George W. Bush. It gave us a war
in Iraq, and the worst recession since the great depression. It’s time
to bring our system into the 21st century. I hope Obama fixes this,
because president Trump is going to be a nightmare.”
Obama finished up the press conference explaining his plans for moving forward.
“We’re going to investigate the FBI into their role in all of this,” Obama said. “Why
did FBI director James Comey on Sunday say that the agency is not
recommending charges against Clinton after reviewing all of her emails;
declaring Hillary Clinton a free women conveniently just one day before
the election? Why wasn’t this news released earlier? How many votes were
lost because of this?” Obama said. “If all of these questions cannot be
answered by our deadline set in December, a recount will be ordered.”
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