EzzyCarter: Funny thing is no matter how much this guy "goofs" before the election, he's still going to win. Don't be deceived by the media . To the Nigerian leftists/Biden soldiers, all your rants or hate won't stop him from winning. Americans love that mothr4cker
President Biden would be sworn-in in January 2021.
US President Donald Trump has told people in the state of North Carolina to vote twice in November's election, despite this being illegal.
Mr Trump suggested voters send a postal vote and then vote in person in order to test the system.
The president has frequently made false claims that postal votes are vulnerable to significant electoral fraud.
"Let them send it in and let them go vote," he told North Carolina broadcaster WECT-TV on Wednesday.
"And if the system is as good as they say it is then obviously they won't be able to vote (in person)."
On Thursday, he tweeted that if people vote by post they should also go to the polling station "to see whether or not your mail-in vote has been tabulated" and vote in person if necessary.
After President Trump made the initial comments, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein tweeted that he had "outrageously encouraged" people in the state to "break the law in order to help him sow chaos in our election".
President Trump spoke to a local broadcaster in Wilmington, North Carolina
"Make sure you vote, but do not vote twice!" Mr Stein added. "I will do everything in my power to make sure the will of the people is upheld in November."
Democrats have also accused President Trump and the Republican party of attempting to suppress the vote in order to help their side in the election.
President Trump was in Wilmington, North Carolina, to formally designate the city an American World War Two Heritage City.
What would happen if people tried to vote twice? The electoral process is run by the individual states.
Karen Brinson Bell, executive director for the North Carolina State Board of Elections, has reassured voters that there are numerous measures in place to prevent anyone getting two votes registered.
Someone who has already voted by post would show up in an electronic pollbook used at polling stations, and prevented from voting, she said.
Only the first vote would be recorded, she added. And audits are carried out after each election to check voter history against ballots cast.
Voting twice intentionally is a crime, said Ms Brinson Bell.
When Mr Trump's comments were put to Attorney General William Barr, he said it was unclear what the president meant.
Why the focus on postal votes for this election? Several US states have allowed and encouraged postal voting for years.
But the number of people voting by post is expected to vastly increase in 2020 due to fears about gathering at polling stations in a pandemic.
As a result, dozens of US states have expanded postal voting for this election.
There are concerns the large volume of postal ballots may mean it takes days or weeks to count them all, long after Election Day has passed.
What are Trump's claims about fraud - and is there any truth to them?
This isn't the first time President Trump has made controversial comments about postal voting.
Speaking at the Republican National Convention (RNC) last month, he claimed "there's tremendous fraud involved" with postal voting and that "we have to be very, very careful".
But these claims have been strongly and repeatedly debunked by experts.
Ellen Weintraub, commissioner of the Federal Election Commission, responded at the time that "there's simply no basis for the conspiracy theory that voting by mail causes fraud".
In addition, numerous nationwide and state-level studies over the years have not revealed evidence of major, widespread fraud.
In the 2016 US presidential election, nearly one quarter of votes were cast by post, and that number is expected to rise this time round due to public health concerns over coronavirus.
Individual US states control their own voting rules for federal elections - and many are looking to increase postal voting to prevent large gatherings at polling stations on election day. A number of states are planning to hold "all-mail" ballot elections this November.
The rate of voting fraud overall in the US is between 0.00004% and 0.0009%, according to a 2017 study by the Brennan Center for Justice.
ludd2018: Yes yorubas are always in alliance with fulanis to hold igbos down in Nigeria . Don't allow an igbo man to rise . Yorubas connived with fulanis to end Gej govt because they felt that Igbos were in charge under Gej .In anticipation to destroy Igbo race , Yorubas installed Buhari who they know hates Igbos but today every one is suffering under buhari govt now but sensible ones are seeking for oduduwa rep .
The mistake the yorubas had made in Nigeria is the yorubas are fixated in making sure that Igbo man does not rise while indirectly empowering the fulanis and today it is hard to control fulanis and every body is crying. Fulanis are in control of power in Nigeria courtesy of yorubas. They work together to stunt the growth of an igbo man politically and they will say Igbos don't know politics while the same Igbos are doing great more than any other tribe politically outside Nigeria where there is meritocracy, fairness and equity .
solmusdesigns: Almost all the over 300 ethnic group that makes up African most populous country Nigeria all have representatives in all countries of the world doing just fine politically, academically and financially on global scale without no noise
jlinkd78: This matter should be rested. Both side should sheath their swords. FFK has rendered an unreserved apology and we must not play into d hands of d tyrants who know FFK is a torn in their flesh and are sustaining this campaign of demarketing FFK. You can not call someone a drug addict and expect him to be clapping for you. Whether an opinion contributor or an editorial, Daily Trust should not have allowed their tabloid to be used in publishing same. You reading this btw d insult by FFK on d journalist and d rather libelous drug addict mantra labeled on FFK which is more demeaning? I leave u to your conscience.
Why should swords be sheathed?
For years FFK has been on a quest to sully any and every image of those he finds in opposition.
He's done wo without restraint and should not expect such when the shoe is on the other foot.
olisaEze: They also haven’t forgotten their men, women (oftentimes pregnant women) & children that have been murdered in large numbers over the years for things like riots and differing religious beliefs. Don’t you think they also have a right to be angry? Would you be all smiles and sunshine all the time if ur family, friends and tribe members were wiped out for incomprehensible reasons without a single culprit being apprehended time & time again? Give 'em a break na.
Always playing the victim.
Elections would come and we would all witness how our actions count.
olisaEze: Mr 'Speaker for the Rest of the Country', I’m not contesting any elections. Your opinions are no lessons for anyone but yourself, if they are coming from a tribalistic point of view.
YorubaRitualist: You have been the one crying since.whenever there is a thread about igbo president,you and your likes will be there to wail More wailing awaits for you after 2023 Election
Let's see if you can get any vote beyond Asaba and Obolor Afor.
YorubaRitualist: You have only one vote Oga,if buhari can win election and a fulani man at that even after all the atrocities the foolanis committed in nigeria then any other body can as as well win it.you will leave nigeria when an igbo wins the seat in 2023
emkz: I do agree that the columnist used words that are damaging including calling FFK a "windbag and wankėr", and writing thus: "...his bohemian lifestyle while in the United Kingdom included an addiction to drugs for which he had to seek spiritual and physical rehabilitation in Ghana".
This is a slap on journalistic ethos by the writer and shouldn't have been passed by the Editor.
FFK, on the other hand, instigated this when he upbraided that poor journalist. As Chinue Achebe said I Arrows of God: "he who brings home ant-infested firewood should not be surprised when he is visited by lizards". FFK needs to go into sombre reflection and carefully re-examine how he treats people. He might win this case because the writer has no proof of FFK's drug addiction story, but he doesn't have to win it; he has to change for the good of all.
As I said earlier, if it is true it cannot be construed as defamation.
It is well known that FFK went for rehabilitation in Ghana around the year 2000.
The writer would just produce evidence of this and the matter would be struck out.
olisaEze: Buhari insulted you when he told the world that "Nigerian youths are lazy", but you still supported him to a second term. So what’s in an insult, abi u think because they call it Nairaland, it is now the whole of Nigeria? Don’t let petty sentiments turn you to a tribal chauvinist here.
There is absolutely nothing you would say that would make the rest of the country to vote you.
Where's all the money from the customs, FIRS, oil and gas, VATs, etc?
They are even withdrawing from foreign reserves.
Accountability, not blind support, should mean something in this part of the world.
Lol.
It seems Nigerians dont understand that the country is poor.
So you want a country of 200 million people who depend on a major export - oil which sells at 45 dollars per barrel today translating to to 90 million dollars daily of which the country takes even 60 percent we have 54 million dollars daily.
54 million dollars divided by 200 million people means about 27 cents per individual per day.
Add your tax and tariffs even multiple by 10 that's 2 dollars and 70 cents per individual.
Is it such money you expect government would use to pay military, civil servants, build infrastructure and sundry bills?
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Election: Trump Tells North Carolina Voters To Vote Twice by Golan007(op): 8:49pm On Sep 03, 2020
