TCF Center 3:30 AM Ballot Delivery Without Chain-of-Custody Manifests (MI)

[Established Fact – Speckin forensic finding and sworn testimony as to 3:30 AM delivery confirmed] A forensic audit by Speckin Forensics of sampled Wayne County TCF Center Absentee Voter Counting Boards determined that up to 20% of absentee ballots in the sampled boards lacked the legally required absentee ballot application – the instrument that creates the official record of a voter’s request and the authorization for issuance of an absentee ballot. A ballot without a corresponding application has no legal origin document; it cannot be traced to a specific registered voter. Separately, sworn poll challenger affidavits document that tens of thousands of ballots were delivered to the TCF Center at approximately 3:30 AM – during the active counting period – in cardboard boxes, without any chain-of-custody manifests identifying the source, the delivering official, or the ballot count in the delivery. During the 2022 pre-election walkthrough, Detroit election official Daniel Baxter admitted to lack of chain of custody documentation for ballots dropped off at TCF Center. The absence of manifests for a late-night ballot delivery of this scale eliminates any forensic basis for determining whether the delivered ballots were lawfully cast before polls closed.