US Election Day 2020

[danielravennest]

Georgia law requires the polls be open for at least 12 hours on election day. Since they were unable to open on time due to tech problems, they will stay open longer to make up for it.

 

[Kara Spengler]

No TV, so what's my best options for live-streaming election results?

Youtube

 

[Kara Spengler]

Umm. Maybe 538?

Biden Is Projected To Be The President-Elect. Here’s How It All Went Down.

Live election results and coverage of the 2020 presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and the race for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

fivethirtyeight.com

After 2016 they have lost all credibility.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

So... trying to not freak out that the results so far are so crap, considering it looks like its mostly Kentucky and Indiana votes [and when you consider that, its awfully close for those states....]

 

[Veritable Quandry]

After 2016 they have lost all credibility.

How so? They nailed the popular vote, and they gave Trump a 30% chance of winning in their final forecast.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

After 2016 they have lost all credibility.

Why? They predicted the popular vote pretty accurately, as I recall, and gave Trump about a 30% chance of winning, based on the final polls, which was way higher than everyone else's predictions.
ETA: Posted without reading to the end of the thread.

 

[detrius]

Biden is leading in Florida, but they haven't gotten the numbers from the panhandle yet.

ETA: and now Trump is ahead

 

[Eunoli]

 

[Salome]

FL is going to FL. We have the Miami-Dade USPS scandal where the federal mail defied a judge’s order to sweep for tons of ballots that were found to be sitting around unsorted. Don‘t set your heart on FL. FL is a must-win for R’s not us. That’s why R’s pull out all the stops to cheat here.

 

[Salome]

Keep in mind on GA results tonight, they’re saying they will not be able to report at least one highly Dem district:

 

[detrius]

FL is going to FL. We have the Miami-Dade USPS scandal where the federal mail defied a judge’s order to sweep for tons of ballots that were found to be sitting around unsorted. Don‘t set your heart on FL. FL is a must-win for R’s not us. That’s why R’s pull out all the stops to cheat here.

It's looking good, though.

It's pretty close, but 75% of the in-person votes have been counted and Biden has a lead again... and the mail votes have yet to come in, AFAIK.

 

[Eunoli]

They will need everyone's help to retweet when they file these extensions.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I may have misread a sign posted at one of our polling places:

I'm going to need bail money. And a robe.

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

Co-ed naked voting? Weeeeeee!!!! On that Philly video - I'd have normally expected to see some black people since it's Philadelphia but that line looked pretty lily white. Our ward is probably about 60% black, but the line at our polling station was easily 70% white.

 

[Kara Spengler]

How so? They nailed the popular vote, and they gave Trump a 30% chance of winning in their final forecast.

As he said he could not control when that 30 percent arrives. Fine, I have a 99.99999999999 percent chance of not trusting him ever again. No complaining, just reporting the numbers.

 

[Pancake]

Go go Arizona!!

 

[bubblesort]

As a Pennsylvanian, looking at the state results coming in so far, I am not confident that Biden will carry PA. It is still possible. If I had to lay odds right now, though, I think Trump is going to do better than people think.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I've got one serious complaint and its not a new one - but how in the everliving fuck can they declare a state with less than 1% reported for anyone and then states that are almost all in, in theory, not be declared - and how in the everliving fuck can each network have different results.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I'm turning off the news for tonight because, quite frankly, I'm getting nauseous watching some of the numbers come in. Yes, Biden is in the lead in the EC count right now, but this is looking so much like 2016 that it is very unsettling. I only hope I wake up to brighter news in the morning.

 

[bubblesort]

I'm turning off the news for tonight because, quite frankly, I'm getting nauseous watching some of the numbers come in. Yes, Biden is in the lead in the EC count right now, but this is looking so much like 2016 that it is very unsettling. I only hope I wake up to brighter news in the morning.

This will take a week or more to fully shake out. If you want to avoid it, find something to marathon on Netflix.