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Protesters and members of Anonymous march near the White House during the Million Masks March as ballots are counted.
- Police are investigating allegations of a plot to attack a polling station in Pennsylvania.
- This while the electoral vote counting continues.
- As of this writing, Joe Biden is on the rise.
Philadelphia police said Friday they were investigating an alleged plot to attack the city’s Pennsylvania Convention Center, where votes were being counted in the tightly contested US presidential elections.
Local police received a tip about a Hummer truck with people armed with firearms heading toward the vote counting site late Thursday, a Philadelphia police spokesman said in an emailed statement.
Police arrested two men and seized their firearms, as well as the Hummer truck about which they had received the information, the spokesman said, adding that the investigation was being conducted by police and the FBI.
“The men acknowledged that the silver Hummer was their vehicle, and an additional firearm was recovered from inside the Hummer,” the spokesman added.
No injuries were reported and no further details about the alleged plot were released.
Video images broadcast by Action News, an ABC affiliate, showed several police officers at the scene late at night.
On Thursday, supporters of both Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden held rallies in Philadelphia as election staff slowly counted thousands of mail-in ballots that could decide the crucial 20 votes of the Pennsylvania Electoral College.
A state appeals court ruled Thursday that more Republican observers could enter the building in Philadelphia where poll workers were counting the ballots.
The US Postal Service said about 1,700 ballots in Pennsylvania had been identified at processing facilities during two raids late Thursday and were being turned over to election officials.
Trump has repeatedly said without evidence that mail-in ballots are prone to fraud, although election experts say that is rare in American elections.
A federal judge in Philadelphia denied an emergency request from the Trump campaign to stop the ballot counting in Philadelphia as long as no Republican observers were present. The campaign had sued the Philadelphia County Board of Elections on Thursday to request an emergency injunction.
