William Hartmann felt like he was stuck in a “Mission Impossible” movie when he left a Wayne County Board of Canvassers meeting in Detroit in November. Law enforcement advised him not to return home and instead escorted him, with just the clothes on his back, to a friend’s house for safety. “I was scared,” Hartmann told The Epoch Times. “[The police] actually had people stationed outside in different locations, watching, in case anything happened. They were there for three or four days.” Hartmann said he didn’t venture outside for a week. “I was afraid that somebody might recognize me when I was out and want to beat me up,” he said. Hartmann was one of two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers who initially refused to certify the election results due to imbalances in the numbers. Hartmann and Monica Palmer deadlocked the certification in a 2–2 vote …