Fact check: Despite claims, video does not provide evidence of election fraud in Detroit
The claim: 'Newly discovered video shows late night deliveries of tens of thousands of illegal ballots 8 hours after deadline.'
An article from the conservative news website The Gateway Pundit claims that a video from the TCF Center where Detroit election workers counted absentee ballots cast by the citys voters "shows late night deliveries of tens of thousands of illegal ballots 8 hours after deadline."
The article claims that the video is "proof of fraud in Detroit." The video appears to show a white van containing ballots that were unloaded at the TCF Center early in the morning on Nov. 4 and brought into the counting room at the TCF. There is no evidence of anything nefarious.
In Michigan, voters had until 8 p.m. on Election Day to return absentee ballots. The deadline was for casting ballots, not delivering or counting them.
A sworn affidavit written by Christopher Thomas, the former Michigan director of elections who worked at the TCF Center, in response to a lawsuit against the city says that no late-arriving ballots were ever counted.
"No absentee ballots received after the deadline of 8 p.m. on November 3, 2020, were received by or processed at the TCF Center. Only ballots received by the deadline were processed," Thomas wrote.
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