Changes

In an October 2020 interview with ABC 7 News, Winfrey set the stage to drag out the process:

In an October 2020 interview with ABC 7 News, Winfrey set the stage to drag out the process:

{{quotebox-float|“We’re back in control, and we know that we will have nearly 10,000 poll workers that will be working with us to process ballots on election day, or election week is what we’re calling it now, because we know we’re going to be slow.”}}

{{quotebox-float|“We’re back in control, and we know that we will have nearly 10,000 poll workers that will be working with us to process ballots on election day, or election week is what we’re calling it now, because we know we’re going to be slow.”}}

[[President Donald Trump]] had a sizable lead.  Then suddenly [[Joe Biden]] jumped up 200,000 votes.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/voter-fraud-michigan-massive-dump-200000-ballots-biden-sudden-show-overnight/</ref><ref>https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/alert-michigan-county-removes-totals-following-report-of-skewed-results/</ref>  The Trump campaign, as well as the U.S. Senate campaign of GOP businessman and Iraq war veteran [[John James]], accused Michigan election officials of chicanery after thousands of ballots appeared in the middle of the night following Election Day. The campaigns also were outraged that GOP election observers were denied access to ballot counting facility in Detroit after poll workers placed large sheets of cardboard over windows, obscuring the public’s view.  Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel asked state residents to stop telling her staff to shove Sharpie markers up their butts after a state judge threw out a lawsuit by the Trump campaign which sought to halt ballot counts.  Nessel tweeted:

[[President Donald Trump]] had a sizable lead.  Then suddenly [[Joe Biden]] jumped up 200,000 votes.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/voter-fraud-michigan-massive-dump-200000-ballots-biden-sudden-show-overnight/</ref><ref>https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/alert-michigan-county-removes-totals-following-report-of-skewed-results/</ref>  The Trump campaign, as well as the U.S. Senate campaign of GOP businessman and Iraq war veteran [[John James]], accused Michigan election officials of chicanery after thousands of ballots appeared in the middle of the night following Election Day.  

 

 

 

The campaigns also were outraged that GOP election observers were denied access to ballot counting facility in Detroit after poll workers placed large sheets of cardboard over windows, obscuring the public’s view.  Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel asked state residents to stop telling her staff to shove Sharpie markers up their butts after a state judge threw out a lawsuit by the Trump campaign which sought to halt ballot counts.  Nessel tweeted:

{{quotebox-float|“Dear members of the public: Please stop making harassing & threatening calls to my staff.  They are kind, hardworking public servants just doing their job. Asking them to shove sharpies in uncomfortable places is never appropriate & is a sad commentary on the state of our nation."<ref>https://twitter.com/dananessel/status/1324441365091131394</ref>}}

{{quotebox-float|“Dear members of the public: Please stop making harassing & threatening calls to my staff.  They are kind, hardworking public servants just doing their job. Asking them to shove sharpies in uncomfortable places is never appropriate & is a sad commentary on the state of our nation."<ref>https://twitter.com/dananessel/status/1324441365091131394</ref>}}

The Sharpie reference is tied to allegations of poll irregularities contained in an [[Arizona]] lawsuit alleging that ballots marked with the felt-tipped pens were rejected at some voting centers.  In one video posted to [[social media]], two women claimed that Sharpie-marked ballots were not being accepted but ballots marked with regular ballpoint pens were at one voting station.  “So, they’re invalidating votes is what they’re doing,” a man off-camera taking the video says.  “Yes,” one woman, also off-camera, responded.  “I used your pen and then I brought it back to you and I said give this to somebody because it works,” a woman on-camera said.  “Yes, yes, and so we know that, and we’ve been telling them, ‘You need to use a ballpoint pen, not the Sharpie,’ and now those are getting invalidated,” said the man.  On Election Day, Maricopa County officials claimed in a video posted to social media that Sharpies are okay to use when marking ballots despite current state guidance indicating felt-tip markers not be used for ballots.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/11/06/michigan-ag-pleads-with-residents-to-stop-telling-staff-to-shove-sharpies-up-their-rear-ends-993535</ref>

The Sharpie reference is tied to allegations of poll irregularities contained in an [[Arizona]] lawsuit alleging that ballots marked with the felt-tipped pens were rejected at some voting centers.  In one video posted to [[social media]], two women claimed that Sharpie-marked ballots were not being accepted but ballots marked with regular ballpoint pens were at one voting station.  “So, they’re invalidating votes is what they’re doing,” a man off-camera taking the video says.  “Yes,” one woman, also off-camera, responded.  “I used your pen and then I brought it back to you and I said give this to somebody because it works,” a woman on-camera said.  “Yes, yes, and so we know that, and we’ve been telling them, ‘You need to use a ballpoint pen, not the Sharpie,’ and now those are getting invalidated,” said the man.  On Election Day, Maricopa County officials claimed in a video posted to social media that Sharpies are okay to use when marking ballots despite current state guidance indicating felt-tip markers not be used for ballots.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/11/06/michigan-ag-pleads-with-residents-to-stop-telling-staff-to-shove-sharpies-up-their-rear-ends-993535</ref>