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Chicago marchers demand 'Count Every Vote' in presidential election

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Chicago rally to 'Count Every Vote'
WBBM Newsradio/Rachel Pierson

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Protesters on Wednesday demonstrated in several U.S. cities, including Chicago, to demand all votes be counted in swing states that will decide the presidential election.

The "Count Every Vote" march in Chicago drew hundreds of mostly peaceful participants, who began with a rally at Daley Plaza before they took to downtown streets, accompanied by Chicago police escorts.


Social media reports indicated some demonstrators chanted defund-the-police slogans, but more broadly the events were designed to draw attention to the razor-thin margins that will determine whether Democrat Joe Biden defeats incumbent President Donald Trump.

Trump's campaign on Wednesday began mounting challenges to ballot-counting in some swing states as the tallying dragged into a second day.

In Detroit, Republican supporters of Trump converged on the TCF Center, where election workers tried to finish counting tens of thousands of absentee ballots. News agencies called Michigan for Biden.

For the second night in a row, Chicago authorities raised the Wabash Avenue bridge near Trump Tower, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.