As far as I'm concerned, if auditors and witnesses were barred from observing what went on and windows were boarded up to stop people looking in, something dodgy must have been happening with the ballot counting.
There were still observers from both sides thoughout inside the Detroit counting hall - they had to stop the ones intent on distrupting the count.
A ballot counter inside the TCF Center in downtown Detroit, where thousands of absentee ballots are being tabulated, told CNN on Wednesday that the Trump campaign is "not telling the truth about not being given access."
"They have all the access they need," the woman, who requested anonymity due to security concerns, says.
Entry into the TCF Center wasn't restricted until Wednesday afternoon, according to Garcia, the city attorney. After that, credentials were checked on the ground floor coming into the conference center.
"Entry into the Central Counting Board (which was in Hall E of TCF) was always manned so that no one could enter without going past Dept of Elections workers. Election challengers had to sign in at the door to Hall E, and media was confined to a special area inside the hall."
Several challengers were escorted by police from the TCF Center for not wearing their masks properly inside the room where ballots were being counted, Garcia said.
Detroit officials are debunking a video that falsely implies election fraud occurred when a man pulled a red wagon containing a box into a vote-counting center early Wednesday.
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Lawrence Garcia, an attorney for the City of Detroit, "Hundreds of challengers from both parties were inside the central counting board all afternoon and all evening; dozens of reporters were in the room too," Garcia said. "At all times, people outside the center could see in through windows that were further away from counting board work spaces."
But dispute the innocuous nature of what happened, the story served as fuel for a right-wing media machine looking to sow distrust in the country's voting system.
