The Election Day Thread

DT said:
Yep. Mailed, and not delivered to the ballot processing location, just sitting in USPS storage somewhere.
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I honestly think this election looks tighter because of the asymmetrical processing of mail-ins. The thing is, it has just been the right thing to push those rather than squeezing people into tight spaces during COVID. And this tells you a lot about who cares about what...
 
PearsonX said:
All for detoxication!

So now I see a chance that all my predictions coming true on the electoral race:
MI, WI, AZ, GA, and even PA as they have mail-ins left.

Senate is friggin confusing though. So Democrats have 48 seats I expect.
Collins could lose, if the remaining votes are predominantly mail ins. But that's very narrow.

Georgia will have a January run-off.

What happens if both parties get 50 seats?
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That's where Kamala Harris gets to break ties.
 
DT said:
Yep. Mailed, and not delivered to the ballot processing location, just sitting in USPS storage somewhere.
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Where are you seeing that? I'd like to follow this story not asking for "proof". :)
 
PearsonX said:
Senate is friggin confusing though. So Democrats have 48 seats I expect.
Collins could lose, if the remaining votes are predominantly mail ins. But that's very narrow.

Georgia will have a January run-off.

What happens if both parties get 50 seats?
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How Collins was not soundly defeated immediately defies rational thought.

If both parties get 50 seats we’d better pray Joe and Kamala have won so that Kamala breaks any ties.

Personally, I’m hoping for ill health for Mitch so that the Democrat governor can replace him.
 
A federal judge yesterday demanded that the USPS sweep 2 dozen district offices looking for misplaced ballots, which the postal service refused to do. The USPS has conceded that it was not processing mail at the normal rate. A judge is holding a hearing in Georgia as I type.
 
Alli said:
A federal judge yesterday demanded that the USPS sweep 2 dozen district offices looking for misplaced ballots, which the postal service refused to do. The USPS has conceded that it was not processing mail at the normal rate. A judge is holding a hearing in Georgia as I type.
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Yeah they claimed they didn't have enough inspectors to get it done in the timeframe... so hey the way to solve that is extend the timeframe for legit delivery of absentee votes. That demand can be taken to court by the Dems. It's hardball time for the guys wearing blue pinstripes too, not just for the actors with GOP lawyers.

As for the rest of us, now consigned to vote-counting-watch as a spectator sport, well honestly everyone was told up front and given details in god knows how many links that counting mailed-in ballots could take weeks in some cases. It took weeks in NYS during the June primaries this year...

So we should take the advice that was handed out in advance by boards of election all over the country: be patient, please... and expect lawyers to get a lot of exercise while we wait.

I mean there are ballots that by longstanding election laws in some states that can still be accepted for counting if they arrive in almost mid-November. And lots of states including NY have laws saying absentee ballots are counted AFTER in person voting ends and can't even be opened ahead of that time.

Sure, those may not enough to tip a presidency, but they all count towards the victory of one or another elective office, and someone went to the trouble to fill out the ballot and send it back in, and the various states acknowledge that in their election laws --and some states will take affadavits and ballots from in person voters and check the poll registry later to make sure an absentee ballot was in fact not received and counted. All this gets bipartisan scrutiny from the election inspectors... So there's a certain level of street theatre going on with some of the challenges being mounted now by the GOP regarding "late" absentee/mailed ballots.

Some states did recently change their election laws to accommodate concerns over covid-19. For the GOP to be in court now challenging not just "late" ballots but the rule changes that made them timely -- the changes meant to keep people safe from covid-19 exposure while exercising their right to vote and acknowledging a potential disruption of usual ability to process far smaller numbers of mailed votes-- is certainly evidence to me that we need to revisit the Voting Rights Act.

Weird that SCOTUS recently chopped out of the VRA the requirement to have certain mostly southern states be federally overseen w/ respect to any changes in voting laws. In my opinion the Roberts court was wrong about how we no longer need that oversight. Anyone who delves into the details of Georgia vote suppression could see that without difficulty. Whole studies have been done on vote suppression in that state alone. Here's info on one.​

Anyway now it looks like it's not just in the South that the GOP is interested in voter suppression... they are still trying to swat legit absentee votes into foul ball territory by taking exception to local election rule changes specifically designed for this election's unusual and health-related circumstances.
 
Chew Toy McCoy said:
Trump’s decisive winning vote is on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Why does nobody care about that laptop?!?!? The key to EVERYTHING IS ON THAT LAPTOP!! Hillary Clinton admitted to as much in an email sent from her toddler.fondler@gmail.com account she mostly just used for ordering pizza!!!!!
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Now, you know I suspect that many Trump supporters might not think you're joking!
(Just realised I used "Trump Supporter" and "Think" in one sentence…)
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That Trump is this close to another 4 years speaks to that.
 
rdrr said:
Where are you seeing that? I'd like to follow this story not asking for "proof". :)
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Oh yeah, it's like Alli said, there's like ~7% of ballots that were postmarked, and are sitting in postal storage (some of them being in south Florida, don't recall what the actual counts were). I don't see how those can't be considered valid votes.

Some of the original Tweets have vanished, I was going to link those up. Postal Ninja got to those users! o_O
 
PearsonX said:
There goes the senate...
www.reuters.com

Republican Senator Collins re-elected in Maine in setback for Democratic hopes

Republican Senator Susan Collins, an independent-minded moderate, won a surprise re-election victory in Maine on Wednesday, strengthening her party's chances of retaining control of the U.S. Senate.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
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Yep, swell, even if Biden does get in, it'll be 4 years of inert government, honestly, fuck it at this point, let trump win and just burn it down, and we'll try to reset in 2024 ...
 
I love to hate Susan Collins too, but she is somebody who might actually cross the aisle to pass legislation... not sure that will be possible with Mitch in charge though.

I read that there are only 300 votes left to count in Wisconsin... and yet nobody is "calling" the race yet? Even Trump knows he lost since he's asking for a recount. Pollsters weren't shy about predicting Biden, but news networks are very shy about calling any state that's not clearly decided.
 
DT said:
Yep, swell, even if Biden does get in, it'll be 4 years of inert government, honestly, fuck it at this point, let trump win and just burn it down, and we'll try to reset in 2024 ...
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Don't be so fatalistic. Having the WH is still better than having the senate but Trump wreaking havoc.
Objective #1 will be completed: removal of Trump

Believe me, Trump's mojo is winning, so if he loses he'll fade out. He'll not be in good enough shape to even retry running in 2024. So consider 1 of the 2 venom teeth removed.
Also, 2022 there's gonna be 20 GOP and 12 Dem senate seats up for re-election, so we'll be in a good position to allow Biden to have Congressional AND Senate control.

Too bad that it will take longer to rebuild thanks to Mitch...but I'm not sure how long Mitch is gonna stick around either.
 
DT said:
Yep, swell, even if Biden does get in, it'll be 4 years of inert government, honestly, fuck it at this point, let trump win and just burn it down, and we'll try to reset in 2024 ...
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You mean when the Republicans run Trump Jr and the Democrats run another establishment paperweight?

Here’s my prediction. Biden is so not a Socialist, but the DNC will blamestorm with “but they thought he was.” Then they’ll roll out another establishment Mr. Potato Head whose main platform revolves around not being named Trump. They’d probably have a better chance running Trumps’ disgruntled niece. They’ll claim that the country still really just wants a moderate despite the fact that the Trump administration successfully passed a southern border human hunting season and permits to extract combustible fuel from the bodies of non-white poor people. Keep fighting for mediocrity!
 

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