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The US election may not have been \u2018stolen,\u2019 but if this had happened in any other nation, America would brand it illegitimate<\/h1>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/5fca92ed203027385c3ec97f.jpg\")
Supporters of U.S. President Trump protest against election results, in Washington \u00a9 Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n
RT.com<\/p>\n
Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of ‘SCORPION KING: America’s Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump.’ He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf\u2019s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector.<\/p>\n
The 2020 presidential election shambles will go down in history as the event that exposed the fallacy of America\u2019s democracy and made a mockery of its notion of free speech about politics in the eyes of the world.<\/p>\n
\nOn the night of November 3, as the results from largely ‘in-person’ votes were tallied across the nation, by all appearances, it looked as if President Donald Trump was headed toward a resounding victory against his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden. Then\u00a0a water pipe broke<\/a>\u00a0in the arena where the Fulton County, Georgia election results were being tallied, prompting a delay in the counting of mail-in ballots. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,\u00a0election officials stopped counting<\/a>\u00a0mail-in ballots at 9.30pm on election night, resuming the tally at 9.00am the next morning. In Detroit,\u00a0poll watchers were locked out<\/a>\u00a0of the vote counting room, raising concerns about transparency as election officials processed tens of thousands of mail-in ballots.<\/p>\nBy the morning of November 5, with the counting still underway, President Trump\u00a0tweeted out<\/a>\u201cSTOP THE COUNT!\u201d, followed soon by\u00a0a second tweet<\/a>: \u201cANY VOTE THAT CAME IN AFTER ELECTION DAY WILL NOT BE COUNTED!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n
Supporters of U.S. President Trump protest against election results, in Washington \u00a9 Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n
RT.com<\/p>\n
Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of ‘SCORPION KING: America’s Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump.’ He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf\u2019s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector.<\/p>\n
The 2020 presidential election shambles will go down in history as the event that exposed the fallacy of America\u2019s democracy and made a mockery of its notion of free speech about politics in the eyes of the world.<\/p>\n
On the night of November 3, as the results from largely ‘in-person’ votes were tallied across the nation, by all appearances, it looked as if President Donald Trump was headed toward a resounding victory against his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden. Then\u00a0a water pipe broke<\/a>\u00a0in the arena where the Fulton County, Georgia election results were being tallied, prompting a delay in the counting of mail-in ballots. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,\u00a0election officials stopped counting<\/a>\u00a0mail-in ballots at 9.30pm on election night, resuming the tally at 9.00am the next morning. In Detroit,\u00a0poll watchers were locked out<\/a>\u00a0of the vote counting room, raising concerns about transparency as election officials processed tens of thousands of mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n By the morning of November 5, with the counting still underway, President Trump\u00a0tweeted out<\/a>\u201cSTOP THE COUNT!\u201d, followed soon by\u00a0a second tweet<\/a>: \u201cANY VOTE THAT CAME IN AFTER ELECTION DAY WILL NOT BE COUNTED!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n