By Elishya Perera
MONTRÉAL, Québec (CWBN)_ US President Donald Trump retweeted a post from Elections Canada, which said that voting machines are not being used in the Canadian federal election.
In a tweet on Monday (Nov 16), Elections Canada said it “does not use Dominion Voting Systems.”
“We use paper ballots counted by hand in front of scrutineers and have never used voting machines or electronic tabulators to count votes in our 100-year history,” the tweet read.
Subsequently, the post was retweeted by President Trump with the caption “This says it all”.
Throughout the days following the US presidential election, Trump has made unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud through mail-in ballots, and has also insisted that Dominion Voting Systems, the company which makes digital voting machines, conspired with Democrats to help Biden win.
The President alleges that millions of votes for him were either deleted or flipped in favour of Biden.
However, in a statement issued on Tuesday, Dominion Voting Systems noted that the company “categorically denies” any claims of voter fraud through machines, including claims of vote deletion or switching, software glitches and the existence of a secret CIA program for vote fraud.
“Dominion is a nonpartisan U.S. company… and is not, and has never been owned by Smartmatic,” the statement read. Trump’s legal team has also alleged that Smartmatic, is a company which has close ties to Venezuela and China, and that Dominion “sends everything” to this company.
Nevertheless, the federal government agency that oversees US election security, together with the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, had also released a joint statement on November 12, stating that this year’s presidential election was “the most secure in American history”.
“There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” the statement highlighted, and noted that when states have close elections, many will recount ballots, which allows the identification and correction of any mistakes or errors.
On the other hand, in an email to Global News, a spokesperson for Elections Canada has said the agency’s message on Twitter was “intended to respond to the large number of questions we had received from people who mistakenly believed we use automated tabulating systems in federal elections” and therefore, “It shouldn’t be construed as anything other than that.”
In the meantime, the Trump campaign continues to pursue lawsuits in several states alleging mass voter fraud, as the President refuses to concede to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
Edited By Chathushka Perera
