Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday cited studies he said showed rampant voter fraud, saying the Nov. 8 election was "rigged" against him even as Republican lawyers called his allegations unfounded. "They even want to try to rig the election at the polling place," Trump told a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The country's top elected Republican, House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, tried to counter Trump's message about election fraud. 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. A number of Republican-led states, citing the need to prevent voter fraud, have passed laws with stricter ID requirements.

Source: Egypt Independent October 18, 2016 01:30 UTC