Donald Trump's'electoral fraud expert Gregg Phillips was 'registered to vote in three states'
Conservative ex-civil servant on electoral role in Alabama, Texas and Mississippi
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Donald Trump’s unofficial electoral fraud expert was registered to vote in at least three states during the presidential election, according to an investigation.
Gregg Phillips, whose unsubstantiated claim that the election was marred by 3 million illegal votes was tweeted by the president, was reportedly listed on the rolls in Alabama, Texas and Mississippi.
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by just under 3 million votes.
“Why would I know or care?” said Mr Phillips, when he was asked by the Associated Press whether he knew of his multiple registrations.
“Doesn't that just demonstrate how broken the system is? That is not fraud - that is a broken system. We need a national ID that travels with people.“
Mr Phillips, who has held various civil service roles in Mississippi, tweeted on 11 November: “Completed analysis of database of 180 million voter registrations.
“Number of non-citizen votes exceeds 3 million. Consulting legal team.”
Mr Phillips, now a board member of conservative anti-vote fraud non-profit True the Vote, reportedly only voted in Alabama in November.
Earlier this month, he described the “amazing effort” by True the Vote volunteers after they found “thousands of duplicate records and registrations of dead people”.
Mr Phillips’ electoral status was ‘inactive’ in Mississippi and suspended in Texas, but officials apparently told AP that he could have voted.
Despite his election victory, Mr Trump has claimed that up to 5 million immigrants voted illegally.
"When you look at the people that are registered, dead, illegal and two states, and some cases maybe three states, we have a lot to look into,“ Trump said in an ABC interview.
According to various media reports, chief White House strategist Steve Bannon, press secretary Sean Spicer, treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin, youngest Donald Trump daughter Tiffany, and senior White House adviser and Mr Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner were registered to vote in more than one state.
Mr Trump tweeted on Friday: ”Look forward to seeing the final results of VoteStand. Gregg Phillips and crew say at least 3,000,000 votes were illegal. We must do better!“
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