Mega-Thread: 2020 United States General Election

[Arrashi]

So how long till we know initial results?

[Shadowferal]

Speak for yourself. I for one value the opinions from our ally countries.

I don't care to hear any country telling us how we should run our own.
Too much stone throwing in their own glass house.

[Ashnazg]

Biden is already making me money in the stock market.

Thank you Joe.

I don't think its Biden, but the possibility of red congress thats causing the market to surge. The idea is that with a red congress and blue president, the country will be deadlocked on anything meaningful for another 4 years at least, which is good for a lot of corporations.

I guess in a way it is Biden - they're counting on the fact that he'll be an impotent president.

[Hobb]

Looks like GA is done counting the votes and Trump carries the state.

https://www.wsbtv.com/election-results/

[beanman12345]

You mean our minion countries, right?

Um, no I don't.

[Hadriker]

Pennsylvania election officials plan to hold a news conference this afternoon. Democrats here are increasingly confident that Biden will have a big lead when all votes are counted

From NYT. Probably addressing the Trump lawsuits

[Breccia]

Well I just "lost: a family member today. While living with her parents at 50 in Alabama because her husband cheated on her, she decided to post some of the misinformation we've already talked about.

If anyone here feels the need to do something similar, here's what I posted, word for word:
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Allegation of ballot ‘switching’ in Virginia is false

https://apnews.com/article/fact-chec...ent:9665888878

The 112,000 Wisconsin ballots statement is also false.

https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...onsin-found-1/

Wisconsin did not have more votes than voters.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/...rs/6166062002/

Michigan gaining 138,339 votes for Biden and 0 for Trump is false.

https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...steriously-su/

Deleting a tweet is not election interference. I don't need to cite a source for that one.

Getting deleted from Facebook is not election interference. I don't need to cite a source for that one either.

North Carolina is still counting 200,000 mailed ballots. It was not 100% called.

https://apnews.com/article/why-ap-ha...c75d32eea1849b

Always check your sources. Please stop intentionally posting misinformation.
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I love my family, but I love the truth more.

[Timester]

The opinions of other countries aren't relevant.

You are proud to be compared with an African democracy?

[Redwyrm]

Here is the legal situation in PA as broken down by 538

https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blo...ults-coverage/

Pennsylvania
The Trump campaign and other Republicans have filed multiple lawsuits in Pennsylvania, claiming various kinds of election-related irregularities:

A lawsuit filed in state court by the Trump campaign claiming that observers were not able to “meaningfully” oversee the count, and asking for the count to be stopped. On Thursday, a state appellate court issued an order guaranteeing that GOP ballot observers can watch the process within six feet. The order did not stop the count in Philadelphia, however.

Another lawsuit filed in state court by the Trump campaign and the RNC that tries to move up the deadline for when mail-in voters with missing ID information would need to provide that information. Currently the deadline is Nov. 12, but the Trump campaign wants it to be changed to Nov. 9.

Another state court lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania Republican candidates and voters, involving ballots that were corrected during the initial ballot-processing (“pre-canvassing”) period on Nov. 3.

A federal case filed by a Republican candidate objecting to the process of “curing” or correcting problems with mail-in ballots in Montgomery County, just outside Philadelphia. At a hearing yesterday, the judge in the case seemed skeptical that the Republican claims had affected the integrity of the election, and in any case, a relatively small number of ballots (fewer than 100) appear to have been affected.

The Trump campaign has asked to intervene as a party in the Supreme Court litigation over Pennsylvania’s ballot-receipt deadline, which was extended to Friday by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has declined twice to overrule the deadline, but several conservative justices indicated that they might be willing to revisit the case, potentially throwing the validity of any ballots postmarked on Election Day that arrive in that three-day window into question. However, it’s also not clear whether a large number of ballots are actually arriving late — Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said on Wednesday that there are only “hundreds” so far.

[Bdatik]

Looks like GA is done counting the votes and Trump carries the state.

https://www.wsbtv.com/election-results/

I'm doubting that (for now) as it's the same vote totals previously reported that were considered 98%, not 100%.

[Beazy]

Looks like GA is done counting the votes and Trump carries the state.

https://www.wsbtv.com/election-results/

It all comes down to NV. We should know more about NV in 8 minutes.

[Breccia]

"Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said on Wednesday that there are only “hundreds” so far."

I thought it would be low, but not that low. Good on everyone, EVERYONE, who voted early.

[kaelleria]

I'm doubting that (for now) as it's the same vote totals previously reported that were considered 98%, not 100%.

There are still 60k uncounted ballots.

[Xeones]

Looks like GA is done counting the votes and Trump carries the state.

https://www.wsbtv.com/election-results/

??? The news just said there was still around 50k to count in GA

[Redwyrm]

Here are the other states in which Trump is suing

Michigan
The Trump campaign is suing to stop the vote count in Michigan, claiming that it was not given access to observe the counting, and asking to review ballots that it was not able to witness. It’s not clear what the campaign is really trying to accomplish here, since Biden is leading in the state. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson also said that the claim “doesn’t really line up with the facts.”

Georgia
The Trump campaign and the Georgia GOP filed a lawsuit asking a judge in Chatham County to make sure that late-arriving ballots are being properly segregated from on-time ballots. (In Georgia, ballots must be received by 7 p.m. on Election Day to count.) The campaign claims that the county might be mishandling ballots, but this appears to be based on a single allegation from a Republican poll observer involving a small number of ballots. In any case, the lawsuit isn’t seeking to stop on-time ballots from being counted.

Wisconsin
The Trump campaign has indicated that it will file a formal recount request in Wisconsin — but this can’t happen until the last county has submitted its canvass to the state elections commission, which will happen sometime between Nov. 10 and 17. (And it’s worth mentioning here that recounts rarely reverse the outcome of elections — including in 2016, when Trump’s lead over Clinton was basically unchanged after a Wisconsin recount.)

[Shadowferal]

Looks like GA is done counting the votes and Trump carries the state.

https://www.wsbtv.com/election-results/

Not yet.
Still have mail ballots.

[Thekri]

Looks like GA is done counting the votes and Trump carries the state.

https://www.wsbtv.com/election-results/

Not sure that is true, but it might be. Kemp and his Sec State are both blatantly corrupt assholes, and I fully expect anything close in Georgia to be a Trump win. The GOP always wins the coin flip. Always.

[Acidbaron]

Well I just "lost: a family member today. While living with her parents at 50 in Alabama because her husband cheated on her, she decided to post some of the misinformation we've already talked about.

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I love my family, but I love the truth more.

At the end of the day if the air their political opinion and misinformation they put themselves in a position that they wanted to seek out conflict.
If they respect you they could have just agreed to disagree.

If Only facebook and others got their act together sooner rather than allowing people to slide down this rabbit hole.


But back on topic, so chances are we'll know who wins tonight with probably a week of legal disputes from team trump?

[Breccia]

Looks like GA is done counting the votes and Trump carries the state.

It's not that I doubt Trump will win Georgia.

It's that those numbers look just like NBC's numbers, leaving out the part that Georgia has 100,000 votes left to count. Biden's down by 15,000 in NBC's count.

So either NBC is slower than...whatever local station that is, or your source forgot to mention votes weren't done being counted yet.

[Hobb]

??? The news just said there was still around 50k to count in GA

I hope so, would love to see the state flip blue for the first time since 1992.