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By The Washington Post 
14h ago
Hannah knowles
Phoenix – Dozens of protesters, many with pro-Trump flags and placards, gathered Wednesday night in front of the counting center in Arizona’s largest county, which has been live-streaming their process.
They chanted “let us in!” and “counting the votes” and “we love Trump” and questioned the integrity of the electoral system.
A smaller group of people, annoyed by the emphatically denied claims by election officials that Republican ballots completed with markers had been rejected, had gathered at the Maricopa County election and tabulation center not long before, at one point. upon entering the building. Officials finally took them outside.
They left and returned shortly before 8 pm in much larger numbers, prompting those inside the center to close the doors.
“This is a fair and honest election,” declared a man in the center of the crowd, then said that people would return every day.
“We’re not going to break in. We just want to see you count the ballots,” someone yelled at one point.
Former Vice President Joe Biden led President Donald Trump by roughly 80,000 votes in Arizona as of 11:30 p.m. ET, according to The Washington Post’s election tracker, with about 85% of ballots written.
The Trump campaign has filed or said it intends to initiate legal challenges to electoral processes in several states, but has not named Arizona among them.
On Wednesday afternoon in Detroit, protesters marched loudly outside a ballot room, shouting “Stop the count!” They recited the Pledge of Allegiance and said a prayer. Staff members at the site told them they couldn’t enter, citing public health reasons, which seemed to embolden the group.
In Minneapolis, several hundred protesters blocked traffic on Interstate 94, a major artery in the city, in protest of the presidency of Donald Trump, but also as a warning that President Joe Biden may not deliver the “change” they are searching.
Earlier that day in New York City, a huge march had taken over part of Fifth Avenue. The anti-Trump protests had converged on Washington Square Park. From there, the activists continued in different directions. The NYPD tweeted that they arrested more than 20 people “who attempted to hijack a peaceful protest by lighting fires, dumping garbage and eggs in Manhattan.”
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