Obama was asked about Trump's voter fraud assertions on Tuesday at a joint news conference in the White House Rose Garden following meetings with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. In a report titled "The Truth About Voter Fraud," the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law cited voter fraud incident rates between 0.00004 percent and 0.0009 percent. But Pence added that "in recent years we've had instances, proven instances of voter fraud." A number of Republican-led states, citing the need to prevent voter fraud, have passed laws with stricter identification requirements. Trump trails Clinton by 7 points in national opinion polls, according to an average of polls compiled by RealClear Politics.

Source: bd News24 October 18, 2016 23:15 UTC