TCF Center 3:30 AM Ballot Delivery Without Chain-of-Custody Manifests; 20% of Absentee Ballots Lack Legal Applications (MI)

[Disputed Fact – Extent of missing applications and ballot count of late delivery contested] 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. 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.