Detroit, Michigan’s TCF center is the scene of a showdown between election officials and poll challengers.
The challengers were locked out of the building earlier in the day (see below) and have taken to protesting against being locked out of the room where the ballot counting is taking place.
“Stop the count!”
Election challengers shout “Stop the count” as poll workers count absentee ballots in #Detroit, Michigan in the 2020 general election @washingtonpost #Election2020 pic.twitter.com/nzWfSSX34P
— Salwan Georges (@salwangeorges) November 4, 2020
Doors to the TCF area for vote counting are padlocked and poll challengers have been removed during the counting in Detroit, Michigan. The room where the ballots are counted is massive so there must be hundreds of poll challengers to observe. It a convention center with table after table of vote counting going on. There are also backrooms and other entrances to the building.
There was a Republican poll challenger at every table before they went to lunch, after lunch, the group was locked out of the building. The reason for the lockout is being blamed on…”covid concerns”…
The room was filled with people during training and there was no restriction stated for a limit to the people allowed in the huge convention space.
Video and pictures show an effort to remove people as poll challengers:
#StopTheCount It’s not #TCF that is preventing our #PollChallengers from getting in the building it’s #MDHHS REFUSING our people from coming in!! This facility is MASSIVE! Doors are chained. @TeamTrump #VoterFraud pic.twitter.com/1jlqjcrC9Y
— meshawn maddock (@MeshawnMaddock) November 4, 2020
The local Detroit Free Press is reporting on the lockout:
The crowd outside is getting larger and these people are still being refused entrance to observe the counting process.
What are they hiding?? pic.twitter.com/Dj46uZ1X9z
— Drew Thompson (@DrewThompson40) November 4, 2020
Photos show the padlocked doors:
https://twitter.com/DrewThompson40/status/1324072034956156929?s=20
Windows are now being covered up:
Outrageous https://t.co/UEFN3albt8
— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) November 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1324093638578753543?s=20
Detroit vote counting is a hot mess and getting heated. Poll challengers are being intimidated, according to sources inside the vote counting room.
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that the Trump campaign called for Michigan to stop counting ballots until the campaign is given “meaningful access to numerous counting locations to observe the opening of ballots and the counting process.”
It is the right of lawyers for the Trump campaign to see what’s going on with counting the vote. They have also been denied information and data guaranteed under election laws.
Poll challengers are also essential to witnessing the tabulation of the votes. There are also reports of bullying of poll challengers who are trying to observe the counting.
Shift change at Detroit’s Central Counting Board. Challengers, volunteers and election workers have been sequestered here since 5AM this morning. #Elections2020 pic.twitter.com/lHqRP2DvKJ
— Eli Newman (@other_eli) November 4, 2020
As a poll challenger in several elections in Michigan, it’s clear the voting system needs more checks and balances. This woman was in Pontiac, Michigan trying to vote when a man tried to pay her to vote Democrat:
🚨 🚨 One of our volunteers in Pontiac MI was outside a polling location when a Democrat operative approached her with a sample D ballot and offered her $5 to vote for Joe Biden.
This must stop. pic.twitter.com/XB9X7NK0pt
— Mike Roman (@mikeroman) November 3, 2020
The people of Michigan deserve better than this third-world voting. Voter fraud is too easy to commit.