By Jack Phillips
A GOP poll observer in Detroit’s TCF Center in Michigan on Nov. 3 alleged that election workers didn’t disqualify any ballots, suggesting such a practice is highly unusual.
“I saw a ballot for Taniqua Haynes, it comes up in the computer as the wrong ballot number. They mailed her ballot number 5748, but that’s not what she sent back,” poll watcher Chris Schnorak said in an interview. He said that his challenges were rejected by election officials: “They refused to put challenges in the electronic log.”
In Haynes’s case, officials assigned a new ballot number, but Schnorak asserts that it “should have been a spoiled ballot.”
“They didn’t disqualify a single ballot” despite numerous ballots not having voters who were on the list of legal voters that were published by the Michigan Secretary of State’s office, he remarked. Poll workers at the TCF center overrided the rules “in order to make ballots go through,” he said. “This affected thousands of ballots that were no good, and were counted, and could not be authenticated as legitimate voters.”
When he observed the ballot process at a tabulation center in Royal Oak, Michigan, he noted there were 10 challenged ballots out of 25,755, suggesting it’s unusual.
“I kept seeing a voter birthdate of 1900. I could tell it wasn’t right,” Schnorak said, while alleging fraud. “I tried to document it, but so many things were going on and I was flustered. I think they were just creating a record for those people in order to process their ballots. They had a systematic way of doing it, they were good at it. It was coordinated and it was organized.”
