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They said that Benson's office told clerks in Michigan counties to "delete Electronic Poll Book software and associated files" amid calls to audit the election.UPDATE: Michigan's a go now too:
They were likely referring to a Dec. 1 memo (pdf) from the Michigan Bureau of Elections, which is overseen by Benson's office, that states "[Electronic Poll Book] software and associated files must be deleted from all devices by the seventh calendar day following the final canvass and certification of the election (November 30, 2020) unless a petition for recount has been filed and the recount has not been completed, a post-election audit is planned but has not yet been completed, or the deletion of the data has been stayed by an order of the court or the Secretary of State."
The memo was referring to Electronic Poll Book software and files contained on laptops and USB drives using during the election.
However, the Republican Party flagged the memo and process as concerning.
"Secretary Benson's move to request the deletion of election data amidst bipartisan calls for an audit is just another example of her putting partisan politics over what's best for Michigan," said Michigan Republican Party Chairman Laura Cox said in a statement Friday.
They noted that due to alleged statewide irregularities, an audit is necessary.
Cox stated: "With election irregularities rampant across the state, it is vital that we have this audit before any election data is deleted. Secretary Benson's move to delete this data before an audit raises a serious question, what are the Democrats hiding?"


According to Jesse Binnall, who presented the evidence on behalf of the Trump campaign, the witness, whose name is shielded by a protective order, said that the vote tallies were collected from the machine at the end of every voting day and stored on Universal Serial Bus (USB) drives overnight.Binnall also claimed that a recent audit of 1.5k mail-in ballots "suggested that 2 percent of ballots were cast on behalf of voters who never received a ballot in the mail. While 1 percent of them were cast on behalf of voters who said they did not vote at all."
"What they would do is they would log these disks in and out. Good practice. And the disks had a serial number on them. And numerous times that disk would be logged out with one vote total on it and logged back in the next morning during the early vote period with a different number on it. Sometimes more, sometimes less," Binnall said.
"What that means is that literally in the dead of night, votes were appearing, and books are disappearing on these machines."
Binnall said that the USB drives were not encrypted and the voting machines were not password protected. "And they were hooked up with laptops, then where the laptops themselves could have been compromised," he added.
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Kevin Hamilton, the attorney for the defendants, delivered a comprehensive point-by-point challenge to all of the Trump campaign's claims. He argued that the Trump campaign didn't name a single voter among voluminous lists of ballots that were allegedly illegally cast.
"Simply put, breathtaking relief demands breathtaking evidence but contestants stand before you with nothing of the sort," Hamilton said.
Hamilton argued that similar legal challenges against the use of the signature-matching machine have been overruled without exception by other courts. He also targeted the credibility of Jesse Kamzol, a key witness for the defendants whose testimony features a data analysis that points to a large number of potentially illegally cast ballots.
In a rebuttal delivered at the tail end of the hearing, Binnall pointed out that the defendants didn't question Kamzol's analysis and instead attacked his qualifications. Kamzol served as the chief data officer for the Republican National Committee as recently as 2017.
District Judge James Russell ordered both parties to submit proposed orders to the court by 10 a.m. on Friday so he can quickly make a ruling with enough time for either party to appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court.
Baselice and Associates conducted the audit for the legal team representing the Trump campaign in Nevada. The firm called the voters identified on each mail ballot. The findings suggest that 3 percent of the ballots were cast by someone other than the person identified on the ballot.But rest assured, there is "no evidence" of widespread voter fraud. Or are the claims just "unsubstantiated" now?
"This complaint makes clear that workers have the right to speak to issues of ethical business and the composition of management. This is a significant finding at a time when we're seeing the power of a handful of tech billionaires consolidate control over our lives and our society. Workers have the right to speak out about and organize, as the NLRB is affirming, but we also know that we should not, and cannot, cleave off ethical concerns about the role management wants to play in that society."

Comment: The woman in the purple shirt has been identified. (The woman with the blonde braids is her daughter.) Here she is livestreaming the day of the election. In the video are what appear to be unmailed absentee ballots...
And this doesn't look suspicious at all...
This is a bit blurry, so it's hard to tell. But definitely not suspicious at all:
Of course, election officials are still saying that there's nothing to see here. Gabriel Sterling says it's just "normal ballot processing." (He also appeared on Newsmax to lash out at Republicans.) Other officials assure us that a Secretary of State representative was present - never mind the affidavit alleging he was just sitting in the corner doing nothing all day. They say election officials never told everyone to leave - just the envelope openers. The media and observers were presumably just confused and all left on their own, so the ballot counters naturally just stayed to finish their job unobserved (except by the lazy Sec. of State rep). Never mind the observer affidavits saying they were TOLD to leave.
Here's the media 'debunking'. Keep in mind, observers couldn't see the tabulators, even when they were allowed in the room. They were placed around a corner and couldn't observe this area at any time:
Update 8 December
Steven Crowder's latest show covers the current situation in Georgia and Michigan: