US election 2020 thread

[Raheem]

I don't really understand the 'curing' thing tbh. What does that involve exactly?

It means that there was something wrong with the form making the vote invalid. But voters can check online to see if this has happened to their vote (ballots have a tracking number), and put it right if they choose (e.g. by adding a missing signature). The ballot is then "cured".

 

[JTG]

It means that there was something wrong with the form making the vote invalid. But voters can check online to see if this has happened to their vote (ballots have a tracking number), and put it right if they choose (e.g. by adding a missing signature). The ballot is then "cured".

Also handy if you decide you voted for the wrong guy, you can just not cure it and it gets binned

 

[Roadkill]

These are adults, apparently. And members of Congress.

 

[ddraig]

e2a the "curing"
It happens here too, the postal ballots are scanned in and computer says no if they don't exactly match
A human is needed to check them and put back in yes pile

 

[bimble]

These are adults, apparently. And members of Congress.

She’s the Qanon believer who just got elected.

 

[Roadkill]

She’s the Qanon believer who just got elected.

Exactly.

 

[SpookyFrank]

She’s the Qanon believer who just got elected.

And she's picked a great time to ride the wave of a Trump-based personality cult.

 

[StoneRoad]

She’s the Qanon believer who just got elected.

Hope that someone manages to "de-program" her brain PDQ.

 

[Raheem]

Hope that someone manages to "de-program" her brain PDQ.

With a knitting needle.

 

[strung out]

e2a the "curing"
It happens here too, the postal ballots are scanned in and computer says no if they don't exactly match
A human is needed to check them and put back in yes pile

That's not curing in the same way. In the USA a voter cures their own ballot after they cast it by, by resolving whatever the issue was.

 

[ddraig]

That's not curing in the same way. In the USA a voter cures their own ballot after they cast it by, by resolving whatever the issue was.

ok then, double checking and making ballots valid so they count

 

[teqniq]

Erm....

 

[keybored]

Erm....

Drink is a hell of a drug

 

[quiet guy]

The man is under the influence of something

 

[JTG]

Just leaving this here because I never tire of watching it whenever it resurfaces. I wonder if he still has that mug.

 

[Spymaster]

Erm....

Wow

 

[JTG]

Georgia margin's opened up

 

[Raheem]

Georgia margin's opened up

Does that affect the recount?

 

[killer b]

Is that out of recount territory now, or have they committed to doing it so going to have to push ahead anyway?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Is that out of recount territory now, or have they committed to doing it so going to have to push ahead anyway?

Recount territory is within 0.5% I think so pretty much guaranteed.

 

[JTG]

Recount territory is within 0.5% I think so pretty mich guaranteed.

Correct, 0.5% is the benchmark so it's happening. I assume the Georgia Secretary of State's statement earlier saying it was going to happen was based on doing their sums and confirming that the gap couldn't open any wider than that

Those results that came through were Gwinnett County btw, another Atlanta suburb

 

[elbows]

Erm....

I wasnt clued up on him so I checked his wikipedia entry and I think he has suitable form to the extent it would probably have been more surprising if he hadnt made that sort of video.

As public information officer, Higgins made videos for the parish Crime Stoppers program. He first used standard scripts, but began to improvise in his own style, appealing to suspects to surrender and sometimes threatening them by name. His videos went viral, and in 2015 he was described by national media as the "Cajun John Wayne" for his intimidating persona.

Higgins also made a video for the state police, with a script that prompted protests from suspects' families and the ACLU. He resigned from the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office in February 2016. Sheriff Bobby Guidroz had warned him against using disrespectful and demeaning language about suspects. The Sheriff had ordered him to "Tone down his unprofessional comments on our weekly Crime Stoppers messages".

Clay Higgins - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[JTG]

The gap's so large now it's kind of hard to see Trump making it up unless he wins some extraordinarily wide margin of the outstanding votes and/or there's some weird discrepancy uncovered by the recount

 

[steveo87]

Apologies my American cousins, but like the jet engine and fucking over smaller countries for their resources, the Brits got there first:

 

[JTG]

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Erm....

Fuck me.

This is like a collective delusion.

 

[Roadkill]

Interesting what Trump's niece had to say on tonight's Channel 4 News.

 

[teqniq]

Fuck me.

This is like a collective delusion.

He reminds me of Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Georgia margin keeps oscillating back and forth by a dozen votes or so.

 

[JTG]

Georgia margin keeps oscillating back and forth by a dozen votes or so.

Probably v small counties reporting in ballots they just tripped over this morning and what have you

Have a video of Trumpies protesting the Rhode Island result. Biden won RI by 20 points