Trevor Fay

The Republic | azcentral.com

Community organizer Randy Perez had one goal when he set out Monday: March through the streets of Tempe with a few hundred demonstrators to protest President Donald Trump's claims of massive voter fraud in the November election.

Something went wrong along the way, however, and what was originally supposed to be a march of 150 to 200 people ended up fizzling out with an attendance of 20 to 25 people gathering at Arizona State University's Tempe campus.

Marches across the country Monday were organized and dubbed "Not My President's Day'' protests, a play on Presidents Day.

"I think that a lot of people are just getting really burned out," said Perez, when asked about Monday's low attendance numbers. "This would have been the 10th march or so that I personally have been involved in organizing at ASU. I know that students sometimes have short attention spans, and we have a lot of different stuff going on with our own lives on campus. But I think the (protest) message wasn't what they were looking for."

The goal was to call attention to Trump's claims that three million undocumented immigrants voted in the 2016 presidential election and highlight Russia's alleged interference in the election.

When only around 25 people showed up, Perez canceled the march.

"I think it's more about building personal relationships with people," he said. "We usually say, 'Hey could you bring five friends to one of these?' We have to think about what we can do better as organizers to really bring your enthusiasm here and remind people about how important this is."

Perez didn't express any specific plans to reschedule the march, but said there would definitely be more events in the future.