Pence’s legal team found election fraud claims minor, unverifiable before Jan. 6

The lawful workforce of former Vice President Mike Pence identified allegations of election fraud either unverifiable or slight in a memo issued just times before a mob stormed the Capitol and attempted to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election.

In the 10-site memo tackled to Pence and dated Jan. 1, 2021, which was received and printed Friday by Politico, his legal crew assessed allegations of election legislation procedural violations and fraud in the 2020 election in 6 swing states made by “the GOP and similar plaintiffs.”

“In general, there is sturdy proof that point out and nearby election officials committed numerous procedural violations that lessened transparency and/or favored Democrat candidates. Nevertheless, most allegations of substantive voter fraud – defined to imply the casting of illegal ballots in violation of prevailing election laws – are both fairly smaller in number, or cannot be confirmed,” his lawful team observed, according to the memo.

The doc then detailed and responded to distinct allegations created about just about every of the six states. In Georgia, for illustration, Pence’s authorized workforce dealt with “Trump Campaign’s Numerical Allegations,” which provided promises that underage people and felons with uncompleted sentences voted in just the condition. 

His authorized crew observed in advance of listing the slew of allegations made by the Trump marketing campaign that the Business office of the Vice President “has not been able to verify” them.

In states including Michigan and Arizona, Pence’s lawful group dealt with “statistics-dependent allegations,” noting that they could not confirm cited quantities that prompt probable voter fraud.

A man or woman familiar with the document advised Politico that it was furnished to the Dwelling find committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot by the National Archives and Data Administration.

Former Pence chief of staff members Marc Small told the information outlet that the considering of the vice president’s group aligned with what was incorporated on the memo. A committee spokesperson declined to remark to Politico about the issue.

“We frequently noticed the irregularities that occurred for the duration of the 2020 election, the actuality that Democrats correctly weaponized election variations that ended up the outcome of Covid,” Shorter explained to Politico. “But eventually it was critical to catalog the several allegations and where by there was difficult proof, or lack thereof, of actual theft.”

The new memo comes right after the committee held the 1st in a series of community hearings established for this month in primary-time on Thursday. The conference included testimony from Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards and documentarian Nick Quested, as nicely as excerpts from recorded interviews with Trump officials.

The Hill has arrived at out to a Pence spokesperson, the committee and the National Archives and Records Administration for remark.