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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Virginia officials find misreported 2020 election votes added to Trump’s total

A woman votes in Herndon, Virginia, on 3 March 2020.
A woman votes in Herndon, Virginia, in 2020. Photograph: Samuel Corum/Getty Images

As Donald Trump continues to pursue the lie that his 2020 presidential election defeat was the result of electoral fraud, elections officials in Virginia have admitted some results there were improperly reported – resulting in an artificially inflated total for Trump while votes were actually taken away from Joe Biden.

Eric Olsen, director of elections for Prince William county, said: “Election results were improperly reported by the previous administration during the 2020 election.

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