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DC reporter for @reuters on crime and justice. Ex-@usatoday. Data, documents and "convoluted KGB style back-door" stuff. 202-527-9709, brad.heath@tr.com

Nov 11, 2020, 14 tweets

The Trump campaign released that 234-page stack of affidavits from poll watchers in Detroit tonight. So far, it's mostly allegations that they couldn't get as close as they wanted to the counting, couldn't re-enter the room after they left, etc. Pretty standard election stuff.

There's a claim of ballots being counted more than once.

There are a bunch of claims about city workers being hostile to Republicans, cheering when they were escorted out of the room and that kind of thing.

There's a claim that a poll worker backdated the receipt date by some ballots.

One Republican poll watcher said the independent lawyers observing the process seemed pretty liberal to him.

One Republican poll watcher found it suspicious that members of the military would vote for Joe Biden.

Several Republican poll watchers said there was "collaboration" between their Democratic counterparts and city officials, but so far none has said what that was exactly or how they know it happened.

They further allege that Democrats were mean.

Many Republican poll watchers complain that they weren't allowed to talk to city workers, but instead had to speak with supervisors.

One Republican poll watcher said city workers were wearing Black Lives Matter apparel, and one of them was large.

One Republican poll watcher said a police officer handcuffed him after he refused to let the officer close a door, even though he would have let the officer do that if the officer told him how many poll watchers were in the room. (This person is a lawyer.)

A common complaint among Republican poll watchers is that they were told to stay 6 feet away from other people and they thought this made it harder to monitor things.

There are a lot of complaints about low-level city workers doing what they're told and not listening to Republican poll watchers' very reasonable suggestions about how they should actually do it differently.

One Republican poll watcher notes that the police guarding the door of a counting room were "heavily armed."

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