US Election Day 2020

[Katheryne Helendale]

Ambassador to North Korea.

Oh, Jesus, no! He'll have Kim lobbing missiles at us in no time flat!

 

[detrius]

It's not a bad idea in principle; but there's no universe in which Mitch goes for this and anyways, what department would he be competent to lead even hypothetically?

Is "Mouth of Sauron" a position in the US government? I hear the last one had an unfortunate encounter with a sword.

 

[detrius]

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ........

Trump is going to cancel Christmas at the White House if he loses.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Lolorado

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

So while Trump supporters have gathered outside ballot counting offices in Detroit and Philadelphia to demand those states "stop the count", other Trump supporters have gathered outside the Maricopa County ballot counting facility in Arizona, where Biden is currently ahead, to demand....that, I don't know, Arizona keeps counting, I guess? Which is...what they're already doing, inside that building, but...protest, though! Or something.

 

[Pancake]

So while Trump supporters have gathered outside ballot counting offices in Detroit and Philadelphia to demand those states "stop the count", other Trump supporters have gathered outside the Maricopa County ballot counting facility in Arizona, where Biden is currently ahead, to demand....that, I don't know, Arizona keeps counting, I guess? Which is...what they're already doing, inside that building, but...protest, though! Or something.

Unless it’s just a social media joke, I understand the Arizona protesters are upset because they voted using Sharpies and have learned that will invalidate their ballot.

People vote with sharpies?

 

[detrius]

What language do they speak up there?

Aw geez. Ya think he'll like it over there?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Unless it’s just a social media joke, I understand the Arizona protesters are upset because they voted using Sharpies and have learned that will invalidate their ballot.

People vote with sharpies?

That was one of the early rumors that I think was making the rounds this morning. There was a location where Sharpies were provided to voters at the poll. But the Secretary of State's office already made it clear I think that all of Sharpie'd ballots would be counted as valid.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Trump's lead in GA is down to 23,000 and 164,000 in PA. I think GA is pretty close to out of votes left to count though. I have no idea how many are left in PA but I'm still not really seeing either flip to Biden, as awesome as the idea might be.

More counting in Arizona has chiseled a tiny bit away from Biden, but he's still up about 80,000 there. So yeah, waiting on Nevada tomorrow morning.

Like I said earlier, North Carolina was alleged this morning to still be "in play", and nobody has called it. Trump is ahead about 80,000 there. I know they had some mailed-in ballots to count; but I have no idea how many, and the vote tally so far has not changed at all literally all day, and there has been ZERO information from NC so I've basically been ignoring them. Alaska is also way behind on their reporting, but it's safely presumptive to be a Trump win so nobody cares.

 

[Free]

 

[Ranma Tardis]

Decided to leave my automatic at home. Election day went well but why not when Trump supporters outnumbered Biden ones four to one.

 

[Free]

Kanye West Officially Concedes From The Presidential Election + Has Plans To Run In 2024

Kanye West has officially thrown in the towel in this presidential election. The rapper, who announced he was running for President earlier this year, received a total of 60,000 votes after appearing on the ballot in twelve different states. Although it was impressive, it wasn’t enough to win...

www.hot97.com

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Unless it’s just a social media joke, I understand the Arizona protesters are upset because they voted using Sharpies and have learned that will invalidate their ballot.

People vote with sharpies?

It's probably more of a "Let's start a riot" russian trolling. Anything sufficiently dark and non-reflective should be more than fine. I'm pretty certain my local polling place (CA, not AZ) has been having me fill my paper ballot out with a medium point sharpie, or similar permanent felt tip marker.

IIRC, years back, one of the school districts in AZ fucked up royally by buying a years supply of pencils that WERE NOT "Number 2"'s and couldn't be processed by the standardized test mechanical readers. Ooops.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Are you already aware about this?

 

[Chalice Yao]

U.S. Withdrawal From Paris Agreement Casts the Stakes of Election in Planetary Terms

Joe Biden has promised to reenter the Paris climate accord on the first day of his presidency.

theintercept.com

And juuuuuuuuuuuust in time, eh?
The US formally withdrew yesterday.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

The measure passed 68% to 32%.

Nebraskans vote for initiative removing slavery as a punishment for crime

Nebraskans voted to remove slavery as a punishment for a crime from the state constitution.

www.ketv.com

32% against?

 

[Essence Lumin]

32% against?

Yeah, that was my thought.

 

[Sid]

Update on why Arizona Nevada takes so long:

" 1.234.521 - 1.234.522 - 1.234.523 - 1.234.524...."
"Hey Joseph, you want some coffee?"
"Great idea Mrs. Jones, two sugars please.
Now where was I?
Shit!
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 ........"