US election 2020 thread

[Lord Camomile]

She's on CNN now.

Bah, I don't think she's got a result

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Fuck it, I'm running for president next time.

I'll run on a platform of standardised voting across all 50 states - mail in ballots for all, thousands of drop off points, easy access to polling stations on the day. A friendly and efficient postal service, all mail ballots to be received by polling day. Pre-election counting of early votes will not just be encouraged, it will be mandatory. Count of in-person ballots starts as soon as polling closes. No sleep until results are in, and no mid count team-building away days, looking in your general direction Nevada.

We'll have a result on the night. I'm not eligible to run and I'll have no other policies*, but by god I think I'm in with a shot AND WE WILL WIN!

*apart from Full Communism obv, but don't tell the electorate that.

 

[belboid]

Just to manage Georgia expectations: it's obviously going to be ridiculously close and there will be a recount I'd imagine. Overseas military ballots and provisional ballots could end up being significant rather than the footnotes they usually are. We may get a Biden lead soon but it won't be over!

5203 military ballots last time and given the presumed split in trumps favour...

 

[Sprocket.]

Surely Greece

if you ignore women and slaves obv

Greece wasn’t really Greece until the late 1940s and the army ran it for a couple of decades.

 

[Sprocket.]

Indeed. That's a more meaningful way to judge it. But the US's claim doesn't hold up even if you allow that only allowing white men to vote while keeping millions of people as slaves makes you a democracy.

Exactly.

 

[Sue]

Must say I've come to appreciate our voting on a Thursday thing. Staying up all night and drinking too much isn't too bad when there's just Friday to get through. A Tuesday night is brutal.

 

[Wilf]

I know they've got armed lunatics peering through the window, but couldn't PA just, like, add a few bits of paper up? And don't get me started on you Nevada.

 

[StoneRoad]

It's not the oldest constitutional republic in the world. That honour goes to San Marino.

Every day's a school day - I was thinking it was the Tynwald / House of Keys ...

 

[JTG]

5203 military ballots last time and given the presumed split in trumps favour...

Yep. But then again provisionals will be people who applied for a mail vote then decided to vote in person after hearing about postal issues, people who had ID issues, people not showing on the register even though they think they're on it... they'll be heavily D

 

[bimble]

Bah, I don't think she's got a result

Yes, and she wont be pushed.

 

[agricola]

this was seen elsewhere:

 

[Wilf]

Tarantino could do a film on the count: tellers laid back in their chairs talking about their holidays in France and Le Big Mac Vote. Armed Trump supporters burst in. Tellers reach into the ballot box and come up fighting with Uzis. 2 hours later, everyone is washing blood soaked ballots dressed in shorts and T Shirts.

Needs a bit of work, I'll admit.

 

[JTG]

 

[Detroit City]

Then the campaign for 2025 can begin!

Indeed

 

[frogwoman]

Why are their votes always on a Tuesday in November? Is there a reason behind this?

 

[ska invita]

Why are their votes always on a Tuesday in November? Is there a reason behind this?

"A November election was convenient because the harvest would have been completed but the most severe winter weather, impeding transportation, would not yet have arrived, while the new election results also would roughly conform to a new year. Tuesday was chosen as Election Day so that voters could attend church on Sunday, travel to the polling location (usually in the county seat) on Monday, and vote before Wednesday, which was usually when farmers would sell their produce at the market."

 

[agricola]

Trump is going to speak to the nation in half an hour or so (6.30pm EST)

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

"A November election was convenient because the harvest would have been completed but the most severe winter weather, impeding transportation, would not yet have arrived, while the new election results also would roughly conform to a new year. Tuesday was chosen as Election Day so that voters could attend church on Sunday, travel to the polling location (usually in the county seat) on Monday, and vote before Wednesday, which was usually when farmers would sell their produce at the market."

In other words, just like the electoral college, they’re really keeping up to date with the needs of the 21st century.

 

[ska invita]

Trump is going to speak to the nation in half an hour or so (6.30pm EST)

 

[Sprocket.]

Why are their votes always on a Tuesday in November? Is there a reason behind this?

It’s something to do with electoral practice and federal law 34 day windows to set up the inauguration. I seem to remember from my Dr. Heffernan lessons.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Trump is going to speak to the nation in half an hour or so (6.30pm EST)

He’s actually going to try and declare victory, isn’t he?

 

[Sue]

Trump is going to speak to the nation in half an hour or so (6.30pm EST)

Is he going to concede? Or not concede and rant away????

(Hoping for the latter.)

 

[Lord Camomile]

Trump is going to speak to the nation in half an hour or so (6.30pm EST)

"Ok, look, this all just got really out of hand. I went to a dinner, Obama was making jokes, I got upset, made some rash decisions... can we all just agree to forgive and forget? I just want to go back to New York and live somewhere with my name on it."

 

[two sheds]

Call out the Proud Boys

 

[cupid_stunt]

Trump is going to speak to the nation in half an hour or so (6.30pm EST)

Trump will be throwing his toys out of his pram, in front of the nation, in half an hour or so (6.30pm EST)

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I hope he starts turning on the GOP. That's got to be coming soon.

TRAITORS

 

[agricola]

Is he going to concede? Or not concede and rant away????

(Hoping for the latter.)

Sadly given how his drones have behaved this evening, and how Pennsylvania (and Georgia) may just be about to flip, I can't see anything other than him demanding that all patriots spring to his defence.

A concession would amaze me more than him stripping off and doing the Agadoo would.

 

[prunus]

PA 78k...

 

[two sheds]

A concession would amaze me more than him stripping off and doing the Agadoo would.

To YMCA?

 

[Sprocket.]

Trump will be throwing his toys out of his pram, in front of the nation, in half an hour or so (6.30pm EST)

This is what happens when spoilt, petulant children are never told no.