An absentee Detroit ballot was sent from a city other than Detroit.
Another poll watcher says some ballots, when scanned, didn't pull up a matching voter record so city workers entered information into a computer.
Here we go. One Republican poll watcher says some ballots were processed without being checked against the computer, and the ballots were "sequential, highly suggestive of fraud." (But there's no additional detail.)
The same poll watcher said a "SWAT team was there to make sure we didn't 'argue too much.'"
A worker named "Travis" accepted an absentee ballot that was dropped off after the 8 p.m. deadline.
Backtalk from Democratic poll watcher.
"Many stacks of ballots that appeared to be in pristine condition, as though they had never gone through the U.S. Postal Service." But that's all we find out.
Here a GOP poll watcher says she saw other Republicans being thrown out after workers said they were "threatened." She says she didn't see any Democrats thrown out.
That's pretty obnoxious.
One Republican says "two large men" watched him all night, and it was "obvious a coordinated and organized system of challenger intimidation was implemented."
Here we go. One woman says she checked the online voter registration for her deceased son, who she says was listed as having voted in this election and one four years ago, both after he died.
You get the gist. Many of these boil down to not being able to observe as closely as they wanted, not having questions answered. A bunch are people saying they saw something but didn't know exactly what was happening or why. Some are relatively detailed; most are not.
But they're not alleging fraud. A few allege things that made them suspicious, but they offer very little detail.
But the other think they show is a big counting process involving tons of people. And for these types of allegations to add up to systematic fraud, you'd have to make the jump that a *lot* of people were in on it, rather than being imperfect municipal employees.
Anyway, the result of this is that President Trump's campaign thinks Michigan shouldn't certify its election until it shows that all the votes were legit (which is the opposite of how election challenges usually work, but whatever).
As far as I can tell, the suit hasn't actually been filed yet; it's not listed on the docket in W.D. Mich. But the Trump campaign posted a copy of the complaint so you can read it for yourself https://cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/press_assets/1.-11-10-20-trump-v.-benson-w.d.-mich.-complaint-final.pdf and let me know if I've overlooked anything.
This concludes my experiment in determining which of you stayed up too late.
(Update: The Trump campaign's lawsuit still doesn't show up in PACER.)
Further update: The case is filed in W.D. Mich. as No. 20-cv-1083. No judge assigned yet.
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