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Tories promise more money for mental health, NDP vows lower mobile bills, and other election news

Politics Insider for Aug. 26: Plus, misleading claims on health care, Monsef’s ‘brothers’ remark, and O’Toole’s shifting policy positions

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As the Liberals and Conservatives trade attacks on health care, Paul Wells takes us back to 2000 to remind us of the time that Stockwell Day “held up a hand-lettered NO 2-TIER HEALTH CARE sign.”

This election, like every election since, has revolved around misleading claims on health care, giving Wells a “weapons-grade case of déjà vu.”

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Idea of overturning election results is ‘un-American’

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Former Vice President Mike Pence has defended his role in certifying the results of the 2020 election, saying he’s “proud” of what he did on Jan. 6 and declaring there’s “almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”

Pence, a potential 2024 presidential contender, delivered his strongest rebuttal to date of former President Donald Trump’s continued insistence that he could unilaterally overturn the results of the last election, even though the Constitution granted him no such power. A mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol

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Why Biden’s American election meddling comments in Geneva were such a bad look

“How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with elections directly of other countries and everybody knew it?”

President Joe Biden made this stunning remark after his Wednesday meeting

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Myanmar general pledges again to hold new election as anti-coup protests grow

(Reuters) – Myanmar’s military leader said on Monday his junta would hold a new election and hand power to the winner as tens of thousands of people took to the streets for a third day to protest against the coup that overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government.

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing was speaking in a televised address, his first to the country since last Monday’s military takeover. He did not say when the election would be held, but repeated claims that last November’s poll, won by Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), had been fraudulent.

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Georgia Secretary of State opens investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn election

Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks during a news conference on election results in Atlanta, Georgia, December 2, 2020.

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The Georgia Secretary of State’s office opened an investigation on Monday into former U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, an official in the office told Reuters.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office had faced calls to open a probe after Trump was recorded in a Jan. 2 phone call pressuring Raffensperger to overturn the state’s election results based on unfounded voter fraud claims.

“The Secretary of State’s office investigates complaints

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Voting machines didn’t steal the election. But they’re a terrible technology.

The unfounded conspiracy theories surrounding voting machines reveal the same dynamic at work. A popular right-wing talking point holds that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by nefarious actors who hacked machines from Dominion Voting Systems, a Canadian company that supplies many U.S. precincts. The conspiracy theory is rubbish: There’s no evidence that Dominion’s machines were hacked, and certainly no evidence that Dominion itself attempted to subvert the vote count. Each telling of the Dominion conspiracy is more unhinged than the last; small wonder that the company is suing Trump lawyers Rudolph W. Giuliani and Sidney Powell for spreading their

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Fact check: Myanmar did not use Dominion Voting Systems in general election

Social media users have been sharing posts claiming that machines from Dominion Voting Systems were used in the 2020 Myanmar general election, implying that they were linked to the allegations of election fraud made by the country’s army when it seized power in a military coup on Feb. 1, 2021. Dominion Voting Systems confirmed the claim is untrue, and Myanmar’s election was carried out with paper ballots counted by hand, not electronically, making this link illogical.

Electoral workers start to count votes inside a polling station during the general election in Yangon, Myanmar, November 8, 2020.?REUTERS/Shwe Paw Mya Tin

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