This was predictable.
Ohio’s Republican secretary of state has a message for Donald Trump: “I am in charge of elections in Ohio, and they're not going to be rigged.”
The Manhattan billionaire has ramped up in recent days his claims that November’s presidential election will be stolen from him, allegations that are largely not founded in factual evidence. Jon Husted, who will oversee Ohio’s elections as its secretary of state, called such talk “irresponsible.”
“First of all, I can reassure Donald Trump: I am in charge of elections in Ohio, and they're not going to be rigged. I'll make sure of that,” he told CNN on Monday morning. “Our institutions, like our election system, is one of the bedrocks of American democracy. We should not question it or the legitimacy of it. It works very well. In places like Ohio, we make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.”
“We have a bipartisan system of elections. Frankly, it's the only place you can find Democrats and Republicans working cooperatively together,” he said. “They work that way in our election system to make sure that the integrity of our election system is upheld, and that people feel good about the process of voting.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-election-rigged-ohio-secretary-of-state-229881
Ohio’s Republican secretary of state has a message for Donald Trump: “I am in charge of elections in Ohio, and they're not going to be rigged.”
The Manhattan billionaire has ramped up in recent days his claims that November’s presidential election will be stolen from him, allegations that are largely not founded in factual evidence. Jon Husted, who will oversee Ohio’s elections as its secretary of state, called such talk “irresponsible.”
“First of all, I can reassure Donald Trump: I am in charge of elections in Ohio, and they're not going to be rigged. I'll make sure of that,” he told CNN on Monday morning. “Our institutions, like our election system, is one of the bedrocks of American democracy. We should not question it or the legitimacy of it. It works very well. In places like Ohio, we make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.”
“We have a bipartisan system of elections. Frankly, it's the only place you can find Democrats and Republicans working cooperatively together,” he said. “They work that way in our election system to make sure that the integrity of our election system is upheld, and that people feel good about the process of voting.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-election-rigged-ohio-secretary-of-state-229881