US polls: Election demonstrators arrested in Seattle and Portland

Demonstrators hold signs during a march to "Count Every Vote, Protect Every Person" on the day after the US Presidential Election in Seattle, Washington on November 4, 2020. - AFP photo

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP): Police in Seattle and Portland, Oregon arrested more than a dozen people as hundreds took to the streets to demand a full count of all presidential election votes and a halt to President Donald Trump's court challenges to stop counts in some key battleground states, officials said.

Seven people were arrested on Capitol Hill in Seattle and one person who was being arrested for allegedly damaging property was taken to a hospital after "experiencing a medical episode, ” police said in a statement early Thursday (Nov 5).