6 hours agoUS tensions, officials prevent about 30 people from entering Michigan's polling room
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Michigan, a crucial state that will help determine the winner in the United States presidential election, is continuing to count “the thousands of” votes, according to a senior state official. In Detroit, where voters were banned from entering the counting room Wednesday afternoon, the situation was tense. [...]
Michigan, a crucial state that will help determine the winner in the United States presidential election, is continuing to count “the thousands of” votes, according to a senior state official.
In Detroit, where voters were banned from entering the counting room Wednesday afternoon, the situation was tense.
Republican President Donald Trump won Michigan with a slight advantage in 2016, but on Wednesday evening the leading media organisations predicted that Democrat Joe Biden had won the state. Mr. Trump has made it clear that he will fight to change the outcome there.
With 99% of the votes counted, Mr. Biden had a 60 thousand vote advantage, according to Detroit Free Press.
The situation was tense Wednesday afternoon in downtown Detroit, where city election officials stopped about 30 people, most republics from entering the polling room, due to capacity restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The Democrats said they too were banned. A polling worker told Reuters agency that Republicans “were trying to slow down and prevent the number”.
Detroit police were called to implement the decision, and some of those who were stopped from the hall were irritated when polling station officials blocked windows containing pizza boxes and cardboard to prevent them from seeing from the windows.
Many stayed outside the hall expressing their protest and singing “God bless America”, while a second group of republican election challengers who had been denied entry were placed in a circle to pray and cheer “Stop vote” and “Stop counting”.
