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Nói quá! So với thiên chúa giáo thì cộng sản giáo chỉ là một cái cult thôi. Một người French thiên chúa giáo đã nói rồi "Eveything begins in mysticism and end in politics".

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Thì mài mại như tập thể và bầy đàn cũng khác nhau ở chỗ có đuôi hoặc có cánh. Biên giới có khác chút đỉnh, nhưng xa!

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US election security officials reject Trump's fraud claims



Reuters - A Biden supporter at a "stop the steal" rally in Wisconsin

US federal election officials have said the 2020 White House vote was the "most secure in American history" - rejecting President Donald Trump's fraud claims.

"There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised," the committee announced.

They spoke out after Mr Trump claimed without proof 2.7m votes for him were "deleted" in last week's election.

He has yet to concede to the projected winner, Democrat Joe Biden.

What did the election officials say?

A Department of Homeland Security unit that worked on safeguarding US voting systems for the 3 November presidential election issued a joint statement on Thursday.

The committee of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) said: "While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections, we can assure you we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too.

"When you have questions, turn to elections officials as trusted voices as they administer elections."

The head of Cisa, Christopher Krebs, has said he expects to be fired by the Trump administration, according to Reuters news agency.

It reported that Mr Krebs had incurred the White House's displeasure over a Cisa website called Rumor Control, which debunks election misinformation.

On Thursday, Mr Krebs shared a post by an election law expert that said: "Please don't retweet wild and baseless claims about voting machines, even if they're made by the president."

Cisa assistant director Bryan Ware stepped down on Thursday. The White House had asked for his resignation earlier this week, reports Reuters.

How are Republicans reacting?

A small but growing number of Republicans are backing calls for President-elect Joe Biden to be given daily intelligence briefings.

Lindsey Graham, a key Trump ally, was among those saying Mr Biden should get the secret presidential memo, as is usual with incoming presidents.

But most Republicans in Congress are standing by Mr Trump in refusing to acknowledge Mr Biden's victory.

The result was called by US media last weekend but some counting continues.

Mr Trump has launched a flurry of legal challenges to projected results in key states and levelled unsubstantiated allegations of widespread electoral fraud.

He tweeted on Thursday that voting software used in 28 states had deleted millions of votes for him, but presented no evidence for the stunning claim

On Thursday, the Democrats' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the "absurd circus" meant the coronavirus pandemic was being neglected, and she and other top Democrats urged Republicans to "accept reality".

Between 10 and 20 Republicans in Congress have now either congratulated Mr Biden or accepted there must be moves towards a transition. But most have yet to acknowledge the president-elect's win.

Democratic Senator Chris Coons told CNN some Republicans had been asking him to congratulate Mr Biden on their behalf because they did not feel able to do so publicly.

Senator Graham was among those saying Mr Biden should get the top secret daily document the president is given. Chuck Grassley, John Cornyn and John Thune agreed, although House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Mr Biden was "not president right now" and should wait.

Why are Republicans holding back?

The Democratic Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said they were "deliberately casting doubt on our elections for no other reason but fear of Donald Trump".

Capitol Hill reporters say Republican lawmakers are anxious not to alienate the Trump base, given that the president just won more votes than any incumbent ever, even though he is projected to lose.

Party bigwigs are also said to be hoping that Mr Trump will help campaign for two Senate run-off elections in January in Georgia that will decide whether Republicans retain control of the upper chamber.

Mr Biden is 5.2m votes ahead of Mr Trump - about 3.4% - and has enough electoral votes needed in the state-by-state Electoral College to take the presidency.

What has Biden been up to?

On Thursday he spoke with Pope Francis, who offered Mr Biden his "blessings and congratulations". Mr Biden will be only the second Roman Catholic president of the US.

He also spoke with congressional Democratic leadership about the need for a coronavirus stimulus package as the daily US caseload from the disease soared to a new record of more than 150,000.

He spent the day huddled with his transition team in Wilmington, Delaware, where he had been planning cabinet appointments.

On Wednesday he picked veteran Democratic operative Ron Klain to be his White House chief of staff.

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A record number of people in the US are currently hospitalized with COVID-19




More people than ever are currently hospitalized in the US due to the coronavirus, and a record of 150,526 new cases were reported on Thursday, according to data from The Covid Tracking Project. This week alone, one out over 378 US residents has tested positive for COVID-19, the group said.

Over 1,100 new deaths were also reported on Nov. 12. Over the last week, an average of 1,052 people died each day from COVID-19.

This number of people currently hospitalized, as reported by The COVID Tracking Project, 67,096, is nearly double what it was two weeks ago.

"The current national case surge has been underway for nine weeks," The Covid Tracking Project said in a blog post explaining the new data, "hospitalizations have risen for seven weeks, and deaths have risen for five."

Cases are also increasing at the fastest rate since the pandemic began, and not just because there is more testing. Indeed, the number of cases reported this week is up 41% from last, compared to a 13% increase in new tests.

Over 234,000 people have now died from the coronavirus. By Dec. 5, that number could be as high as 282,000, according to an analysis by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Cái nhóm này chắc chắn là bị lây hôm Halloween bà con tụ tập ăn chơi quá xá trời. Trick or treatment.

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Sore losers:

70% of Republicans say election wasn't 'free and fair' despite no evidence of fraud – study
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According to a new survey, 70% of Republicans do not believe the presidential election was “free and fair”, even though multiple news outlets have called it for Joe Biden.There has been a dramatic decline in Republican voters’ faith in the system. Before the election, in the same Politico/Morning Consult poll, 35% of Republicans thought the vote would not be free and fair.

More Democrats voiced trust in the election, 90% saying they thought the results were “free and fair”, up 52% from the pre-election poll.

Among Republicans who thought the election wasn’t fair, 78% thought mail-in ballots spurred extensive voter fraud, while 72% believed ballot tampering occurred.

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Sore losers:

70% of Republicans say election wasn't 'free and fair' despite no evidence of fraud – study

Ừa, bận sau đừng thèm đi bầu luôn.

Nền dân chủ "giãy chết" hả?

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Nền dân chủ "giãy chết" hả?

Ai tin thì đi bầu cử, ai không tin thì ở nhà cầu nguyện và coi bói hay coi fake news.

Được làm vua, thua làm tin giả.

Được ăn cả, ngã ăn vạ....

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Ai tin thì đi bầu cử, ai không tin thì ở nhà cầu nguyện và coi bói hay coi fake news.

Hết chơi hụi rồi hả?

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Quẻ này bói trước đó là quẻ gì mà sao ông này chết rồi còn sống lại được?

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The 'dead voters' in Michigan who are still alive


Roberto Garcia - Roberto Garcia told us: "I'm definitely alive and I definitely voted for Biden!"

Donald Trump's supporters have claimed that thousands of votes were cast in the US election using the names of people who had died.

"I may be 72," Maria Arredondo from Michigan told us when we called her. "But I'm alive and breathing. My mind is working fine and I'm healthy."

Maria said she had voted for Joe Biden and was surprised to hear that her name had appeared on a list of supposedly dead voters in the state.

We spoke to other people in similar situations to that of Maria in Michigan and found similar stories.

There have been occasions in previous US elections of dead people having apparently voted.

This could happen through clerical errors or perhaps other family members with similar names voting with their ballots, but Trump supporters have alleged this has happened on a massive scale at this election.

We set out to find out whether there is evidence for this claim.

10,000 'dead absentee voters' in Michigan?

The story starts with a list of around 10,000 names posted on Twitter by a Trump-supporting activist.



It purports to be of people who have died, but who have also voted in the presidential election in Michigan.

Claims such as this have been repeated many times on different social-media platforms, including by Republican legislators.

The list of 10,000 contains the name, zip code, and the date a ballot was received. It then lists a full date of birth and a full date of death. Some of the people supposedly died more than 50 years ago.

Michigan has a database that lets you enter someone's name, zip code, month of birth and year of birth and allows you to see if they voted by absentee ballot this year. So you can easily check whether people on the list voted.

There are also several US websites that include databases of death records.

But there's a fundamental problem with this list of 10,000.

With an exercise like this you are going to find false matches - somebody born in January 1940 voted in Michigan in the election, and there was somebody born somewhere else in the US in January 1940 who has the same name and is now dead. This will happen a lot in in a country as big as the US (328 million people), and particularly with common names.

To test the list, we picked 30 names at random. To this we added the oldest person on the list.

Of this list of 31 names, we managed to speak directly to 11 people (or to a family member, neighbour or care home worker) to confirm they were still alive.

For 17 others, there was no public record of their death, and we found clear evidence that they were alive after the alleged date of death on the list of 10,000. A clear pattern emerged - the wrong records had been joined together to create a false match.

Finally, we found that three people on the list were indeed dead. We examine these cases later.


Getty Images - People took to the streets in Detroit, Michigan, claiming the election results were fraudulent

What we discovered

The first thing we did was to check the official Michigan electoral database to see whether our 31 individuals had sent in ballots - they all had.

We then looked at the death records and quickly became suspicious on seeing that the vast majority did not die in Michigan, but elsewhere in the US.


Supporters of Donald Trump claimed they had a list of dead people who had voted in the election

We wondered whether we could find people of the same name currently living in Michigan.

Checking Michigan state public records, cross-referencing voter postal codes, we were able to find precise dates of birth for those who had voted - and as we had anticipated, they failed to match the dates of birth on the death records.

So we could be confident that we were dealing with two sets of people - those who had voted and those with the same name and age who had died elsewhere.

But what we really wanted to do was to speak to the voters themselves.

'I'm alive!'

We called Roberto Garcia, a retired teacher in Michigan. He told us: "I'm definitely alive and I definitely voted for Biden - I would have to have been dead to vote for Trump."

We also found a 100-year-old woman who, according to the "dead voter" list, had died in 1982. She was alive and is currently living in a nursing home in Michigan.

But the results of our search weren't always so straightforward.

When we looked for another centenarian, who according to the list had died in 1977, we found that she had still been alive when her postal ballot was returned in September. However, a neighbour told us the woman had died just a few weeks ago. We also found a matching obituary from October to confirm this.

If a voter dies before election day after submitting their ballot, the Michigan authorities say the ballot will be rejected.

We have not been able to establish whether her ballot was counted.


Getty Images -Votes were still being tallied as unproven claims of fraud went viral

For those we couldn't reach by phone, we wanted to use other means to confirm they were alive.

These included public records of, for example, business activities, from state and local authorities.

For one woman who was supposed to have died in 2006 we found an annual company statement signed under her name from January 2020.

Two other men on our list of 31 died some time ago, yet votes had been cast in their names - with the correct postcodes and years of birth - according to the voting database.

We found that for both men, there were sons with the same name currently registered at the same address as their deceased fathers.

In both cases, a ballot was sent in for the dead fathers.

Local election officials told us that one of the votes had been counted but there was no record of the son having voted.

In the other, it was the son who actually voted, but it had been recorded as the father's due to a clerical error.


Getty Images - Michigan residents came out to celebrate Joe Biden's election success

'It's simply a matter of statistics'

Our selection of 31 cases is only a small sample of the 10,000 names on the list, but it has clearly revealed the flaws in the database shared by Trump supporters.

From our investigation it's clear that in almost all of our 31 test cases, the data for genuine voters in Michigan has been combined with records of dead people with the same name and birth month and year from across the United States to yield false matches.

"If the lists are linked based on name and birth date alone, in a state the size of Michigan, you're guaranteed to get false positives," says Prof Justin Levitt, an expert on the law of democracy.

It's known as the birthday problem - the high probability that two students in the same class share the same birthday.

So if you compare millions of voters in Michigan with a database of deaths across the United States you're bound to find cross-over, particularly if the voter database doesn't include the day of the month on which a person is born.

"It's simply a matter of statistics that if you cross-reference millions of records with millions of other records, you'll get a sizable number of false positive matches. We've seen this before," says Prof Justin Levitt.

With her vote safely cast, and counted, Maria Arredondo tells us she's looking forward to the new administration.

"He was a great vice-president under Obama. I'm so pleased. A weight has lifted off my shoulders."


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