“A fair and credible audit — conducted expeditiously and completed well before Jan. 20 — would dramatically improve Americans’ faith in our electoral process and would significantly enhance the legitimacy of whoever becomes our next president,” they wrote. “We fully expect most if not all Democrats, and perhaps more than a few Republicans, to vote otherwise,” the senators wrote. “These baseless claims have already been examined and dismissed by Trump’s own attorney general, dozens of courts and election officials from both parties,” said Mike Gwin, a spokesman for Mr. Biden’s campaign. While lawmakers have sought to register their opposition to past presidential election results by challenging Congress’s certification, the move has generally been more symbolic than substantive, given that the loser had already conceded and senators rarely joined with members of the House to force a vote. That is the case even though the vast majority of them just won elections in the very same balloting they are now claiming was fraudulently administered.

Source: New York Times January 02, 2021 19:00 UTC