How Michigan Republicans’ campaign is a ‘direct attack on democracy’

As the key swing state heads into the midterms, Republicans have launched a coordinated effort to pack the process of overseeing elections

Christopher Thomas spent 36 years as director of Michigan's elections, overseeing the laborious but uncontentious running of presidential vote counts.

Then came 2020. Within hours of the polls closing in the presidential race, roving bands of Donald Trump's supporters were moving from table to table at one of Detroit's principal counting centres, flinging around accusations of vote rigging as they challenged and intimidated poll workers in the key swing state.