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76 said: Look, the reason that there is a difference between the 5.25 reported by the secretary of state and the State's election website is that the State election website is behind in reporting. There are four counties that have not yet submitted their totals. The secretary of state knows what those totals are, and we know what those totals are. And if you look at the four missing States and add up their votes, that leaves you with the 5.25. So it was a very simple explanation.

I am sorry. You said "States"; I believe, four missing counties.

Yeah. I'm sorry. Four counties were not yet reported in the public-facing State database.

I see.

And so Scott said: Look, when you add in the four missing counties, it totals up to the number that the secretary of state reported. That's it. That was a completely logical, rational explanation and obviously addressed the concerns about whether there was fraud on that point in Pennsylvania.

All right. So, Mr. Donoghue, just so sort of generally with this or with others, when you do cycle through one of these allegations and determine that it's meritless, do you convey that up the chain to Mr. Rosen or ultimately to the White House? I mean, if the President of the United States had said, "Hey, this is outrageous," you look into it and find it's actually easily explained, what, if any, effort do you make to kind of pass that conclusion along to the White House?

I reported all these results to the Acting Attorney General. We did not report them to the White House. We didn't, you know, say, "Okay, we have got to call over there and tell the President we got to the bottom of it," or anything like that. They may come up in subsequent conversations because the President then raises them. We're able to say: No. We looked into it that, and there's nothing to it.