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Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump and a former New York City mayor, testified at a Michigan election hearing yesterday before the Michigan House.

Others also spoke on Trump and Republicans’ behalf during the hearing.

“When the GOP people were getting escorted out, with or without handcuffs, every poll worker and all Democrats stood and clapped like they all won a lottery ticket,” Hima Kolanagireddy, a poll challenger at the TCF Center, said at the hearing. “And that is exactly when I decided I’m going to do this because that was heartbreaking.”

Kolanagireddy said all the poll watchers were doing was trying to make sure election integrity stayed intact.

“Because these people were doing a job — a volunteer job, they were not getting paid — they all were leaving their work to be here for their country,” Kolanagireddy said. “To ensure election integrity. And they were treated like criminals, and that’s not fair.”

Andrew Sitto, a volunteer at TCF Center, said that he had observed acts of fraud.

“Throughout the entire night, many employees were conducting theft of duplicate ballots,” Sitto said at the hearing. “So they would come up to the table of duplicate ballots, grab 3 or 4 duplicate ballots, run back to their table, give one to another person at another table, and never complete a duplicate process.”

Melissa Carone, a Dominion IT contractor, said at the hearing that while they were being told there was data loss, she didn’t believe that was the case.

“And Nick said there was a big data loss. They started freaking out, stepped off the stage, got on their phones,” Carone said at the hearing. “I asked them what was going on and they said it was taken care of. Nick sent Samuel over to this warehouse for about 3 hours.”

Carone said she believes they found out that Trump was ahead when they were sent to the warehouse.

“What I believe is, it wasn’t a data loss, it was actually when they found out Trump was ahead 100,000 votes and they sent Nick over there to assist with these ballots that came in … these vans full of ballots,” Carone said.

Carone said the impact of what has happened has caused her significant problems.

“I’ll tell you why,” Carone said. “My life has been destroyed. My life has been completely destroyed because of this. I’ve lost family. I’ve lost friends. I’ve been threatened. My kids have been threatened. I’ve had to move. I’ve had to change my phone number. I’ve had to get rid of social media. Nobody wants to come forward. They’re getting threatened. Their lives are getting ruined. I can’t even get an actual job anymore.”