GET OUT: US politics November 2020

I'm going out to dinner, but notifications will be turned up to 11.

are GOP pollwatchers putting up bullshit challenges to every single vote? is that the real reason why it's taking so long?

God the conspiracy theorist crowd is never going to shut up about this election being rigged huh

Mail ballots take longer to process because:

They don’t end up at the counting centers all at once
They don’t even have to have arrived yet, as of now, to be counted, in some places, so long as the postmark is on time
Signatures have to be verified against the ones on file
Human hands have to pull the ballots out of the envelopes and prepare them for scanning
Ballots with any unscannable votes have to be set aside and adjudicated for voter intent
Ballots with any other defects may be challenged, adjudicated, and cured
Individual election authorities may only release tallies once a day at prescheduled times

WA’s voter intent guide makes for fun reading!

https://www.sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/2014_statewide%20standards%20on%20what%20is%20a%20vote.pdf

those vote counters need some kind of parade after this, like when the apollo astronauts came home

pic.twitter.com/kwWYl8mgLB

— Caustic Cover Critic (@Unwise_Trousers) November 6, 2020

apologies for tweet posting, the image would not embed on its own. THIS is what I have been distracting myself at work doing.

Dammit, they're gonna call it while I'm at work tomorrow, aren't they?

Also, good to have you back in the thread Karl. Your presence has been missed.

One of my high school classmates is a Gold Star mother for whom every falling leaf etc is a message from her dead son killed in Helmand and she just cannot believe the American public is rejecting FREEDOM. She travels the country talking to chuds about guns and jeebus and how every military death pays for YOUR FREEDOM so her page today is maximum lurker schadenfreude. Apparently, she will shortly be leaving Minnesota to the socialists.

I think she was counting on the great exurban repudiation of BLM to deliver FREEDOM but Minnesotans in their thousands are more clever and more empathetic than her bubble of reformed high school burnouts and Sturgis bikers.

i will not go to bed until joe biden is president of the united states

Karl you're gonna be really tired by summer if Joe dies between now and the 20th of January

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/williamsmj/countdown/main/plot1.png

Earlier suggested to my spouse they’re holding off so America gets a Good Friday.

all on the same plot

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/williamsmj/countdown/main/plot2.png

these plots should update every five minutes if you hit refresh.

i'm going to bed. good luck everyone!

xposts

jeez, that's really nice fetch, thank you! i am hard at work at something that i'll share this weekend! let's just say that i am now the proud domain owner of thegameoflife.online

GEORGIA DOWN TO 665

drudgesiren

My God, they’re really taking their time. But good to see Georgia almost there after some doubt before I went to sleep. Good morning to Americans still up.

(Except those of you on the coast where it’s not even midnight yet lol, you have a while)

Please let this be done in time for my bday

GEORGIA DOWN TO 665

rly hope they call the next single vote that comes in for him

i refuse to eat until there is an american president

GD MY LUNGS

ICYMI, very amusing thread.

Since we're celebrating #TheCount today, never forget that, in 1988, scheming Ronald Grump conned Oscar out of his home and built "Grump Tower" out of trashcans and human shit in the middle of @SesameStreet. The furious residents threw Ronald in the trash and ran him out of town. pic.twitter.com/tBE1qoDS6z

— Ted Geoghegan (@tedgeoghegan) November 5, 2020

"celebrating"

rly hope they call the next single vote that comes in for him

― @oneposter (✔️) (sic), Friday, November 6, 2020 3:02 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

there is a nonzero chance they reported at 665 because if the gap was 666 qanon would explode

I was thinking similar when I heard that unremarkable number on the radio earlier

463

Trump's Georgia lead was 30,000 this morning. It's now a little over 400.

xp!

god I wish there was a live schadencam running on him all day, this week

I don’t think you’d want to see inside his bathroom for more than ten seconds though would you

I could look away whenever the gold plating reached danger levels.

I wouldn’t take the bet that the dumps in Philadelphia are the more devastating and destructive tbh.

xps Also nonzero chance that the PA will switch at 6.66M counted votes? :-D

It sounds like PA might be won by more than 1% unlike Georgia. There will be no cognitive dissonance amongst Trump mobs switching from chanting Stop The Count to Start The Recount!

Morning USA. Woke up, certain that overnight there would have been some significant movement, more fool me.

CNN has this kind of night shift, low energy vibe right now with two relaxed anchors having the same cyclical conversation.

I've got a mental picture of Georgian ballot-counting machines like something from the Flintstones with two little purple birds inside and lots of string pulleys.

Georgia flipped

917 ahead

I presume as 99% of votes have been counted it will be blue within a 1% margin + Trump will be calling for a recount?

where are you seeing this? NYT doesn't have it

AP

CNN for me, nothing on the 538 blog as yet

Same on CNN. (Semi-sleeping through this.)

xps

GA Presidential Election Results - Biden takes the Lead

Biden (D): 49.39.% ( 2,449,371 votes)
Trump (R): 49.37% ( 2,448,454 votes)

Biden Margin: (+917)
Estimated: > 99% votes in

More results here: https://t.co/xlHf7GZUxJ

— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 6, 2020

Welcome to the 'magic hour' of the thread, when the Americans are all asleep and everyone else can snark about how insanely stupid their electoral system is. (Brit here, glass houses and all that I admit)

the Americans are all awake and find it exponentially more stupid than you do

what's wrong with knowing the results before the elections are even run? that's what they do in good and healthy countries

Hooray! Happened while I was pulverising something orange with a hand blender, zzzzzzzzzt!

xp I was gonna say, even the Americans that benefit from the electoral system probably find it stupid

Having fun translating US electoral system into British terms, like Greater London would be one state with a heavy electoral college weighting, South Lincolnshire (Buttlick, Nebraska for cultural translation purposes) another, with a much smaller weighting... but get this, the house of lords is way more powerful and Greater London and South Lincolnshire have the same representation in it lol