"The scene became a centerpiece of Donald Trump's false narrative that the 2020 election was rigged against him. In Detroit, there were hours of unexplained delay in delivering many of the votes for counting..."
"Daniel Baxter says he could have supplied the answer. He supervised poll workers who had to wade through more than 170,000 absentee ballots... we were in the middle of the pandemic. Nobody wanted to go to the polls on Election Day..."
"As the vote-counting wore on, the situation deteriorated. Hundreds of people converged on the convention center. It escalated when the hall reached full capacity and certain challengers were ordered to leave."
"I heard banging on the windows. I heard chanting, 'Stop the count! Stop the count!' It was a hairy moment. Baxter said it was hard for those counting votes to keep from being distracted."
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