Legal team of former Vice President Mike Pence found accusations of electoral fraud, either unverifiable or minor in memorandum issued just days before the crowd stormed the Capitol and tried to stop Congress from validating the 2020 presidential election.
In a 10-page memo addressed to Pence and dated Jan. 1, 2021, which was obtained and published Friday by Politico, his legal team appreciated accusations of procedural violations of the electoral law and fraud in 2020 election in six rocking states made “The Republican Party and Associated Plaintiffs”.
“In general, there is strong evidence that state and local election officials committed numerous procedural violations that reduced transparency and/or endorsement of Democratic candidates. However, most of the allegations of Substantial voter fraud – defined as casting of illegal ballots in violation of existing electoral laws – either regarding small in number or cannot be verified”, its legal team noted, according to the memorandum.
The document then detailed and answered specific allegations. made for each of in six states. In Georgia, for for example, legal team addressed the “Trump Campaign Numeric Claims”, including allegations that minors people and criminals with the pending proposals were voted on in the state.
His legal team noted before listing kills of accusations made Trump campaign what management of the vice president “couldn’t verify” them.
In states including Michigan and Arizona, legal team addressed the “accusations based on statistics”, noting that they were unable to verify the figures cited, which suggest potential electoral fraud.
Familiar person with The document tells Politico that it was provided to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6, 2021 Capitol Riots by the National Archives and Records Administration.
Former head of Pence of employee Mark Short said news conclusion that thinking of Vice President team aligned with what was included on memo. committee representative declined to comment to Politico about it.
“We often observed violations that took place during the 2020 elections, reality that Democrats effectively used elections as a weapon changes These were result of Covid,” Short told Politico. “But ultimately it was important to catalog various charges and where it was hard evidence or lack thereof of valid theft”.
new the memorandum comes after the committee has held first in a series of public hearings set for this month in prime-time on Thursday. The meeting included testimony from Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards and documentarian Nick Quested, as well as excerpts from recorded interviews. with Trump officials.
The hill has reached out representative of Pence, the committee and National Archives and Records Administration for comment.
