On last night’s episode of his Fox show, Sean Hannity interviewed White House Binder Barbie Kayleigh (Don’t Call Me Kelly) McEnany on the accusations of voter fraud coming out of Wayne County, Michigan, home of Democratic stronghold Detroit.
“Two hundred thirty-eight affidavits!” Hannity exclaimed, confusing the number of pages with the number of complaints, as Kelly flipped through the pages on camera. To her credit, the pages Kelly held up weren’t blank.
A review of the complaints by the Washington Post, however, failed to come up with a single incident involving fraudulent or miscounted ballots. Instead, the affidavits alleged bias, discomfort or even loud noises.
One affidavit, submitted by GOP pollwatcher James P. Frego, stated that he was arrested because he failed to heed a police officer’s instruction not to enter a poll counting room because there were enough Republican observers in the room.
“I put my foot in the doorway,” Frego claimed. “He insisted I remove my foot and I insisted I would do it as soon as I received an exact COUNT of the number of challengers inside the room itself.”
Frego was arrested, handcuffed and charged with various offenses including disturbing the peace. “At no time did I swear at the officers,” he asserted in his affidavit.
Another affidavit claims that the GOP poll watcher was scared of a vote counters wearing a Black Lives Matter gear. One man “of intimidating size” was following her, she claimed.
“I am not a racist at all,” she said. Her concern was that because campaign gear was not allowed in the counting room, it constituted a “double standard.” It should be noted that BLM is not a political party or a candidate.
One complaint said that a public address system in the hall was too loud and being used too much. “This was very distracting to those of us trying to concentrate,” he said.
An GOP poll watcher filed an affidavit claimed fraud because the military ballots he saw being counted including votes for Joe Biden for president. He said he found it odd because he assumed members of the military were all conservatives.
The vast majority of complaints, however, had to do with physical limitations put on poll watchers, regardless of political affiliation, because of coronavirus restrictions. Most complaints had to do with the inability of GOP poll watchers to get closer than six feet to the workers, or the limited number of GOP poll watchers in the room.
None claimed that all GOP poll watchers were barred from observing the count, a frequent grievance Trump has falsely tried to sell.