2020 U.S. Presidential elections

[Ranma Tardis]

I am working the election in Rogers County Oklahoma as a poll worker. I am thinking about packing my automatic. At least keep it in my auto.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

You should see how boring our elections are.

People get their voting pass in the mail. No voters registration needed. All done by the local administration automatically.

This is a cultural issue. The Netherlands have, like Germany, a mandatorty residents' registration office. The USA as well as their birth giving nation, the UK, don't have such a thing. It is simply non existant. Same goes for ID cards: Netherlands and Germany have them mandatorily, USA and UK don't. Which means if you want to proof your identity in the USA, you'll need e.g. a drivers license (which might become a problem if more and more people in certain areas don't drive any longer) or other documents.

So with not having this type of register in place you are forced to organize your work differently.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Which means if you want to proof your identity in the USA, you'll need e.g. a drivers license (which might become a problem if more and more people in certain areas don't drive any longer) or other documents.

(All?) States issue state id for people who don't drive. They look like a drivers license but say Not a license to drive on them.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

This is a cultural issue. The Netherlands have, like Germany, a mandatorty residents' registration office. The USA as well as their birth giving nation, the UK, don't have such a thing. It is simply non existant. Same goes for ID cards: Netherlands and Germany have them mandatorily, USA and UK don't. Which means if you want to proof your identity in the USA, you'll need e.g. a drivers license (which might become a problem if more and more people in certain areas don't drive any longer) or other documents.

So with not having this type of register in place you are forced to organize your work differently.

We in the UK do, though, have to register each year to vote (£1000 fine if you don't, though I don't know if it's ever enforced). It's almost entirely online, though I get sent communications through the mail now and then asking me to enter a unique code contained in the letter, presumably to prove I at least have access to that address.

Each election, I receive a polling card by mail, telling me where to vote. Generally I take it with me to identify myself, but otherwise I simply have to tell the poll worker my name and address. Either way they check my name against their copy of the register and mark it to say to they've given me a ballot paper, which I take to the polling booth, complete, and drop in a ballot box.

The whole procedure takes no more than 30 seconds or so, and, like Sid, I've never had to walk for more than a few minutes to reach the polling station, nor to wait for more than a matter of 5 or 10 minutes, if that, to vote.

I think one of the big differences between Europe and the US is that, in the US, one side considers it a legitimate political tactic to restrict the franchise and manipulate constituency boundaries and generally discourage voting, at least by their opponents' supporters.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

WTF??? Bastards

It's more than that: It's pure domestic terrorism, and nothing less!

 

[Grandma Bates]

Jon Ossoff is currently my favorite election porn:

To add some context, that is an iconic Georgia stroll. He is in Athens GA directly across the street from the main quadrangle of the University of Georgia's North Campus. The large empty area behind him to the left and down exactly one block is where the Athens Civil War monument used to stand* but was recently taken down. Where he is standing is where many people walk from downtown to the football stadium, at least they did before the plague. Many people in the state will recognize that scene. It is also one block the other direction from the racist bars that cater to the fraternity and sorority kids that currently have large signs in their windows protesting the local mask ordinances. Mr. Ossoff is sending an unmistakable message.


* The reason the monument to Civil War dead is no longer there is that the town took a rather creative interpretation of the state law that limits the removal of such monuments, and drove a rather large exception through a small loophole. Nobody at the state level wants to challenge it which is a remarkable sign of the times. The monument now sits in a cemetery on the edge of town that just happens to be near a busy highway where it cannot be easily seen and is also in a more appropriate location. That site was the scene of a long running protest that took place over a good portion of this Summer.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Proud Boy Trump-supporter threatens to bomb North Dakota voting center

Police in Dickinson, North Dakota arrested Anthony Raymond, a 33-year-old self-proclaimed "Proud Boy"—a Trump-loving, anti-feminist men's group whose members never masturbate and attend white supremacist rallies—for threatening to bomb a polling station in Stark County.Raymond reportedly sent an...

www.rawstory.com

a Trump-loving, anti-feminist men’s group whose members never masturbate

New slogan: Masturbate for Democracy!

Maybe these idiots should try it. It might help clear the mush out of their brains! They can put up a giant poster of Trump on their basement walls and fap away to their hearts' content.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump plans to declare premature victory if he appears "ahead" on election night

This is the first account of Trump explicitly discussing his own intentions.

www.axios.com

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I'm still really terrified that evil son-of-a-bitch and his minions will win again. Or...not win, but steal this election. He keeps talking about winning through the Supreme Court. I worry that's exactly what's going to happen. WE'LL vote him out, and THEY'LL give him the office back.

This is my fear, and is keeping me from being able to sleep at night, and I'm usually too nauseous to eat.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Salome]

Mr. Ossoff is sending an unmistakable message.

Yes. Between this and his “it’s not just that you’re a crook...” evisceration of Perdue he is one “y’all” away from making me his thrall. If his next TikTok is having a fried peach pie at the Varsity I’m moving.

 

[danielravennest]

Trump plans to declare premature victory if he appears "ahead" on election night

This is the first account of Trump explicitly discussing his own intentions.

www.axios.com

Premature victory? There's a little blue pill for that.

 

[Salome]

LOL. He can bring it.

Democrats have a team of 600+ layers and thousands of legal volunteers spanning every state who have been preparing for this for four years.

And we can afford our lawyers.

ETA: What the PA AG said:

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Yes. Between this and his “it’s not just that you’re a crook...” evisceration of Perdue he is one “y’all” away from making me his thrall. If his next TikTok is having a fried peach pie at the Varsity I’m moving.

Wait, Varsity has fried peach pies and I never -knew- this? ARgh!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

LOL. He can bring it.

Democrats have a team of 600+ layers and thousands of legal volunteers spanning every state who have been preparing for this for four years.

And we can afford our lawyers.

 

[Salome]

So, this is what 538 says the map would look like if the polls right now were as wrong as they were in 2016. Keep in mind, we have no indications that any of the race-tightening factors following the Comey announcement in 2016 are being repeated now.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I’ll put it here

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[Katheryne Helendale]

So, this is what 538 says the map would look like if the polls right now were as wrong as they were in 2016. Keep in mind, we have no indications that any of the race-tightening factors following the Comey announcement in 2016 are being repeated now.

God, I hope this map pans out! I hope we can also turn Texas blue and blow the doors off any chance of Trump contesting the election!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump Plans to Hold an Election Night Party Inside White House With 400 Guests

All of the guests who will attend the party in the East Room of the White House will reportedly be tested for COVID-19.

slate.com

This has gone beyond The Masque of the Red Death and is rapidly approaching the territory of The King In Yellow (Orange?).

 

[Salome]

God, I hope this map pans out! I hope we can also turn Texas blue and blow the doors off any chance of Trump contesting the election!

Texas will be tight, but the fact that the GOP is even sweating Texas it is a testament to the networks and coalitions O'Rourke, Castro, and others have developed there.

We don’t know what we don’t know, but right now everything looks positive for an easy Biden victory. No cure now but to wait.