(WWJ) The Trump campaign has filed lawsuit in the Michigan Court of Claims seeking to halt the counting of ballots.
The suit is asking that counting should not continue in the battleground state until the campaign is granted "meaningful access to numerous counting locations to observe the opening of ballots and the counting process."
This comes after Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said Wednesday that we won't have vote totals in Michigan until later tonight.
Updating the public before noon, Benson said around 100,000 absentee ballots were still being tallied in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing and a few other smaller cities.
Benson thanked election workers who "stayed up all night" counting voted. She said more than anything she wants to "respect their work and stand back and let them do their jobs."
Benson said a record number of voters, more than 5 million, voted in Tuesday's election — and 28,000 voters registered to vote and voted yesterday alone.
Most of those to register on the day were young voters, she said.
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While the world watches Michigan as U.S. presidency hangs in the balance -- University of Michigan political science professor Vincent Hutchings is among those urging patience everyone to be patient.
"There will be a victor declared probably in the next few days," Hutchings said.
"One of the candidates will ultimately be satisfied, because one of them will be declared the victor, and the supporters of that candidate will be relieved," he added. "The supporters of the losing candidate, of course, will be very frustrated, disappointed -- and let's hope that it just ends there, at frustration and disappointment."
As of early afternoon, Democrat Joe Biden ha expanded his lead over President Donald Trump in Michigan to more than 30,000 votes -- with a new batch of ballots counted in Wayne County. At that point, his margin was bigger than Trump’s was in 2016, when he won Michigan by around 10,000 votes.