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    Quote Originally Posted by Vegas82 View Post
    Where would you find anyone who can count in Las Vegas? It’s not like casinos are only open half the week or anything...
    Vegas is a city that embraces people being bad at math.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JustinJgh View Post
    Hire more counters.
    The problem isn't enough staff, it's lack of space for more machine's is what's bottlenecking everything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JustinJgh View Post
    Hire more counters.
    Most county government are poor

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    Quote Originally Posted by JustinJgh View Post
    Hire more counters.
    Do they get paid in the US? In Belgium (although it's all digital here now), they get a small amount and a sandwhich ;D
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xeones View Post
    Well that is bad, Trump just expanded his lead in GA.
    I think folks gave up on GA.
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    I really really really want Biden to take Georgia. Just for the fact of how extra angry it will make Trump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Acidbaron View Post
    Do they get paid in the US? In Belgium (although it's all digital here now), they get a small amount and a sandwhich ;D
    Some do, because they are employee's of the state/county most are volunteer's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xeones View Post
    Well that is bad, Trump just expanded his lead in GA.
    GA is/was just an extra, to piss-off Trump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JustinJgh View Post
    That's not even true.


    Literally the first result I found.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vegas82 View Post
    Weird thought, but NV is the state with the worst education that is going Biden currently... right?
    Nevada is being bailed out by Vegas and Reno, both if which got a whole lot of people who aren't Nevada natives.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adam Jensen View Post
    The bare minimum change to the election should be a requirement to pass both the EC and the popular vote.

    The reality is the entire system is a dumpster fire and should be remade from the ground up.
    I would love if the stress and disinformation here would lead to some election reform.

    Ideally the results would be determined by popular vote or, barring that, some combination of popular and electoral votes. And districting laws would eliminate gerrymandering. And we'd have a federal standard for voting and counting procedure for national elections. And it would be an opt-out deal instead of opt-in. And election day would be a federal holiday. And there'd be some sort of small tax credit to mitigate any personal costs that going to the polls might cause and encourage turnout.

    But there's no way the Republicans let it happen. They need the wiggle room to fuck with results in their favor, and like always the Republicans will trot out "states rights" when it's convenient to them, since this is a republic after all.

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    Apparently Trump's play is to tie everything up in the courts until its too late. Trump first move is to make a case to state legislatures that the ballots are too corrupt to trust. The Constitution says the states determine the electors. 33 states have a law that the electors must be awarded by popular vote winner, unfortunately if the winner is DISPUTED due to possible fraud (and the state legislatures would have to decide they are disputed), then they can do something else. So Trump needs to wait for them to finish counting to TRAP them, then he would argue in the courts all the way to SCOTUS to make his case, and then turn to the state legislatures and say the ballots cannot be trusted but what CAN be trusted is that the people elected the state legislatures fairly to make a call here. 8 of 9 state legislatures in swing states are republican, so they would ignore the ballot count and just send the GOP electors to vote for Trump. Then the democrats would sue to stop it. While its tied up in the courts, Trump just has to run out the clock.

    Once we reach the day the electors actually vote and no-one has 270 electors due to all the litigation, then we move to the next step in the Constitution where the House votes for President and the Senate votes for vice. Both will elect Trump and Pence and its over.

    Interestingly, a BIG issue here could be how Biden openly said he had the biggest voter fraud organization ever. Even if Biden misspoke, that slip of the tongue could be enough for state legislators to throw out the ballot results.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Felya View Post
    I think folks gave up on GA.
    I was one of those who never expected Georgia to flip blue. It's too far south. Maybe in another 10 years.

    North Carolina... I expected better. It still turned out to be a bridge too far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JustinJgh View Post
    That's not even true.


    Literally the second source I found. So yeah, NM might be it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Die View Post
    Apparently Trump's play is to tie everything up in the courts until its too late. Trump first move is to make a case to state legislatures that the ballots are too corrupt to trust. The Constitution says the states determine the electors. 33 states have a law that the electors must be awarded by popular vote winner, unfortunately if the winner is DISPUTED due to possible fraud (and the state legislatures would have to decide they are disputed), then they can do something else. So Trump needs to wait for them to finish counting to TRAP them, then he would argue in the courts all the way to SCOTUS to make his case, and then turn to the state legislatures and say the ballots cannot be trusted but what CAN be trusted is that the people elected the state legislatures fairly to make a call here. 8 of 9 state legislatures in swing states are republican, so they would ignore the ballot count and just send the GOP electors to vote for Trump. Then the democrats would sue to stop it. While its tied up in the courts, Trump just has to run out the clock.

    Once we reach the day the electors actually vote and no-one has 270 electors due to all the litigation, then we move to the next step in the Constitution where the House votes for President and the Senate votes for vice. Both will elect Trump and Pence and its over.
    So far and luckily his law suits have been ignored

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    Quote Originally Posted by Die View Post
    Apparently Trump's play is to tie everything up in the courts until its too late. Trump first move is to make a case to state legislatures that the ballots are too corrupt to trust. The Constitution says the states determine the electors. 33 states have a law that the electors must be awarded by popular vote winner, unfortunately if the winner is DISPUTED due to possible fraud (and the state legislatures would have to decide they are disputed), then they can do something else. So Trump needs to wait for them to finish counting to TRAP them, then he would argue in the courts all the way to SCOTUS to make his case, and then turn to the state legislatures and say the ballots cannot be trusted but what CAN be trusted is that the people elected the state legislatures fairly to make a call here. 8 of 9 state legislatures in swing states are republican, so they would ignore the ballot count and just send the GOP electors to vote for Trump. Then the democrats would sue to stop it. While its tied up in the courts, Trump just has to run out the clock.

    Once we reach the day the electors actually vote and no-one has 270 electors due to all the litigation, then we move to the next step in the Constitution where the House votes for President and the Senate votes for vice. Both will elect Trump and Pence and its over.
    No court will give him an injunction without him presenting strong evidence that he would prevail in the suit. It's a high bar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    Biden shouldn't call it because it's not official. Trump not conceding is likely but irrelevant. There's enough misinformation coming in from the RepubliQAnons and I don't need to see that shit from Democrats either.
    Candidates literally never wait until it is official. It isn't official until December.

    The trigger for one campaign to declare victory is usually the concession call from the opponent. Traditionally, the losing party initiates it, by conceding the race in a personal phone call to the winner. This is not an official process, it is simply tradition to ensure that the President Elect has an unquestioned right to begin the transition process. It is just a part of ensuring a level of civility in the process that allows it to smoothly function.

    Nobody seriously expects Trump to show an ounce of grace or civility. As such, Biden faces the issue of dealing with a situation where Trump is noisily and actively attempting to discredit the entire election, while he sits quietly and waits for a phone call that never comes. If we have learned anything in the last four years, it should be that yielding the narrative to Trump is a fucking horrible idea.

    Saying "victory is imminent" is the perfect message right now. He hasn't declared yet, nor should he, but he is saying that he fully expects that to happen very soon. He can't let this process get mucked up in conspiracy theories about voter fraud.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thekri View Post
    Candidates literally never wait until it is official. It isn't official until December.
    Yeah, okay, good point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Die View Post
    Apparently Trump's play is to tie everything up in the courts until its too late. Trump first move is to make a case to state legislatures that the ballots are too corrupt to trust. The Constitution says the states determine the electors. 33 states have a law that the electors must be awarded by popular vote winner, unfortunately if the winner is DISPUTED due to possible fraud (and the state legislatures would have to decide they are disputed), then they can do something else. So Trump needs to wait for them to finish counting to TRAP them, then he would argue in the courts all the way to SCOTUS to make his case, and then turn to the state legislatures and say the ballots cannot be trusted but what CAN be trusted is that the people elected the state legislatures fairly to make a call here. 8 of 9 state legislatures in swing states are republican, so they would ignore the ballot count and just send the GOP electors to vote for Trump. Then the democrats would sue to stop it. While its tied up in the courts, Trump just has to run out the clock.

    Once we reach the day the electors actually vote and no-one has 270 electors due to all the litigation, then we move to the next step in the Constitution where the House votes for President and the Senate votes for vice. Both will elect Trump and Pence and its over.
    Except every state has said that they trust their election results. Trump has zero merit to any such contentions.

    So little, in fact, that I’m fairly certain each state court would simply dismiss the lawsuit off-hand.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Valdhammer View Post
    No court will give him an injunction without him presenting strong evidence that he would prevail in the suit. It's a high bar.
    Getting thru the courts is actually ancillary to the goal. The goal is to argue to state legislators to ignore the ballot count and just send the GOP electors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaleredar View Post
    Except every state has said that they trust their election results.
    There is no law preventing them from changing their minds.

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