From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.

I'm Al Etzen.

We learned on November 7 that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the presidential election.

President Trump and Republican leaders refused to acknowledge it, making false and dangerous

claims that the vote was somehow rigged.

How the race was called, the country endured days and nights of counting.

A painstaking tally, sometimes by hand, vote by vote.

Inside a giant room at a convention center in Detroit, Michigan, election officials and volunteers

gathered to count ballots.

Candice Fortman of the Detroit Newsroom, outlier media, was an election volunteer, something

she's done with her family since she was a little girl.

I have been a part of this process many times over and I have never in all of my day seen

anything that sounded like that or looked like that.

Candice's job was to sign in people called vote challengers, Democrat, Republican and nonpartisan

volunteers who were allowed to watch the process and call out issues with any particular

ballot.

On Tuesday, actually, things were relatively normal.

When I arrived on Wednesday, it was like walking into a completely different space.

Back up off the door.

You never told people to sign out so you don't know how many are in there.

I got you.

That is a lie.

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