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Vehicle doors won't close, door mechanism locked up.

The image shows the position of the door locking mechanism. That part will not turn the proper way to allow the doors to be closed. When the engine is running and the power door lock button is pressed, the 4 door locks try to close but fail and stay open. When the engine is turned off, the master door lock on the left side door can be pressed and it closes the door locks on all 4 doors. By door lock I mean the manual switch on the arm rest will close. Then the doors can be closed manually and the car is locked. The left side door does not close. If an effort to examine the right front door, we have the lock part in the same position and can not get it back like normal. So we have two doors that won't close fully which makes the red lights on the dash go off. The light that says a door is open. We have to use bungie cords to keep the doors as closed as we can with the tension and we have to unhook the battery since the two doors are not closed.

edit: I watched a video on such a door lock. When the door handle outside was raised the mechanism seen does rotate back to the normal position so the door can be closed. Whether this can be done with the battery not hooked up is not known. I'll try to raise the right outside door handle because that is the one that I used a screwdriver to lock the mechanism. It may then be able to the closed. The left side is the one which developed the symptom the earliest.
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We tried with the battery disconnected and no luck. With the battery hooked up and being jumped by another vehicle the mechanisms opened with the screw driver.

Overnight we removed the "red battery cable" and left the ground attached. Today the car was dead.
So the battery drew down overnight with both doors technically open and the hot wire to the battery off = ???