Two hearings took place this week: one by the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee on Dec. 1 and another on Nov. 30 by select members of Arizona’s state legislature along with members of President Donald Trump’s legal team. There was also one last week held by the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee.
At the Michigan hearing, witness after witness, many of whom had written sworn affidavits over their concerns, spoke of irregularities and a culture of concealment during their time at the TCF Center in Detroit. Patty McMurray, a poll challenger for nine years, said she attempted to watch the workers’ duplication ballot process where one worker was meant to hold up the damaged ballot and the other would fill in a new one to replace it.
“Whenever we would try to watch the process, the person that was inspecting the ballot would stand in front of us, and if we tried to move to the side, one of the adjudicators would challenge us and tell us to stand back and that we were too close,” McMurray said at the hearing.
After a lunch break as poll challengers tried to return to the building, they were met with locked doors. McMurray said she witnessed “pizza boxes being placed over the windows so that the poll challengers couldn’t see in.” She said these were placed by the election workers and adjudicators.
According to McMurray, not a single military ballot she saw was from a registered voter and that the ballots “looked like they were all exactly the same Xerox c Public hearings conducted in Arizona and Michigan this week have shed light on a myriad of election irregularities as Republican lawmakers in some states prepare to ramp up action disputing this year’s election results.
Two hearings took place this week: one by the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee on Dec. 1 and another on Nov. 30 by select members of Arizona’s state legislature along with members of President Donald Trump’s legal team. There was also one last week held by the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee.
At the Michigan hearing, witness after witness, many of whom had written sworn affidavits over their concerns, spoke of irregularities and a culture of concealment during their time at the TCF Center in Detroit. Patty McMurray, a poll challenger for nine years, said she attempted to watch the workers’ duplication ballot process where one worker was meant to hold up the damaged ballot and the other would fill in a new one to replace it.
“Whenever we would try to watch the process, the person that was inspecting the ballot would stand in front of us, and if we tried to move to the side, one of the adjudicators would challenge us and tell us to stand back and that we were too close,” McMurray said at the hearing.
After a lunch break as poll challengers tried to return to the building, they were met with locked doors. McMurray said she witnessed “pizza boxes being placed over the windows so that the poll challengers couldn’t see in.” She said these were placed by the election workers and adjudicators.
According to McMurray, not a single military ballot she saw was from a registered voter and that the ballots “looked like they were copies.”
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