Black Lives Matter advocates say Detroit police treated pro-Trump activists differently when the election protesters sought to disrupt the city’s vote count.
2020 Election
See full coverage of the 2020 Election from the BridgeDetroit team.
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Trump supporters file lawsuit looking to toss Detroit votes
Trump supporters launch a new tactic against Detroit election results: stopping the election from being certified.
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Inside Detroit’s election: Black women’s stories of the count and the mayhem
Hear firsthand accounts from the battlefield as told by five Detroit election workers who sought to protect the city’s vote and clapped back at pro-Trump activists who cried fraud and tried to derail the count.
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Was effort to stop the count in Detroit voter challenging or suppression?
Pro-Trump activists descended on the TCF center in downtown Detroit to ‘stop’ city election workers from counting absentee ballots. Workers said the protesters were ‘belligerent’ and counting slowed but was it voter suppression?
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First Person | Detroit poll workers are heroes of this election
Our role was clear: ensure all votes were counted without interruption regardless of who they were for, writes two nonpartisan poll challengers.
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A mob tried to stop Detroit’s vote count. She made sure democracy prevailed.
Sommer Woods was hired by Detroit election officials to run logistics at the TCF Center where ballots were being processed. On the third day, her team faced a mob of conservative challengers. She recounts what happened with BridgeDetroit.
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Two incumbents and a Michigan legislator win tight Detroit school board race
Here is how the 14 candidates finished, based on the county’s final vote counts Thursday morning
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What happened when conservatives tried to halt Detroit’s election count
Republicans contend that not enough conservative challengers are monitoring Detroit’s vote count. That’s not true, officials say.
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Judge dismisses President Trump’s suit to stop absentee counting in Michigan
A Michigan judge on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to halt absentee ballot counting in the state, calling his campaign’s lone piece of evidence “hearsay” and telling attorneys there is “no basis” to believe the lawsuit has merit.
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Sen. Gary Peters edges ahead of GOP challenger John James in Michigan
James, who would have become the state’s first Black U.S. senator, put up a formidable challenge to the incumbent. But Peters eked out a narrow win Wednesday amid a high Democrat turnout in Detroit.