-Shame on you!
Shame on you for leading to this level of corruption!
You have disavowed your right to even sit
in the seat that you occupy.
You are a disgrace as it relates to the ability
to have a free and impartial election in this nation.
You have dishonored the legacy of veterans,
the legacy of seniors, the legacy of all of those
who've been left out and miscounted for generations.
You may have stormed it, but you cannot stop it.
-Thank you.
-To discount the hard work of all of our poll workers
and all the staff across our clerks
and to single out my hometown, Detroit,
to say that you would certify these votes
across the county aside from one city,
again, is a disgrace.
-You talked about not certifying Detroit even though you Lavonia,
a city that, by the way, I know you know is 95% White,
had bigger variances than Detroit, which is 80% Black.
We understand, and you know added your name.
So I'm not gonna try to change your mind.
I just want to let you know that the Trump stink,
the stain of racism that you, William Hartmann
and Monica Palmer have just covered yourself
in is going to follow you throughout history.
-We did our job protecting voters, poll workers,
and ballot counters.
I am ashamed to witness you failing to do yours.
Watching racism like this is so painful.
It's soul sucking.
But it's far more painful to those whom you target
in this blatant attack
on the rights of the good voters of this county,
especially out siblings of color.
-I spent from 6:30 am until 8:00 pm there on Election Day,
and I returned the next day, where I spent from 10:30 am
until 12:30 am Thursday morning.
That is well over 27 hours in that room.
In those 27 hours, I saw nothing that makes me doubt
the legitimacy of the count coming out of Detroit.
I saw no misconduct by any poll workers.
The only misconduct that I saw was from other challengers.
-I saw lawyers running around the floor of the counting room
telling GOP challengers to challenge every ballot,
with the reason being that a lawsuit,
not a court room victory, not an order,
but because a law suit had been filed.
I saw GOP challengers trying to operate election equipment.
I saw GOP challengers challenging
the counting of votes because there wasn't
a Democratic poll challenger there.
I saw dozens of GOP challengers refusing to engage
in appropriate social distancing.
-I saw them remove their masks.
I saw them yell in the face of table supervisors
who were just trying to let their workers do their jobs.
-Second, the fact that this board
is going to invalidate the hard work
of the election inspectors and supervisors
is even more unconscionable because they did this work
in the face of a coordinated strategy
by Republican challengers to disrupt,
to intimidate, and to harass.
-You're mad because you lost.
That's it. There is no election fraud.
I was a challenger. I saw it first hand.
Nothing went wrong.
-Based on what I saw and went through in poll books
in this canvas, I believe that we need to have
complete and accurate of those poll workers.
-How is that applicable?
-Because if you don't have an accurate list
of voters to start with,
how do you know how many ballots are supposed to be tabulated?
That we're supposed to tie up?
-No matter what you do,
the President of the United States will be Joseph Biden
and the Vice President of the United States
would be for the first time in our nation's history,
a Black woman by the name of Kamala Harris.
Put that on your ballot and cast that as a vote.
Shame on you!