Mega-Thread: 2020 United States General Election

[Eviscero]

No... The AP and Fox called AZ correctly on Tuesday. The math was there, but it had a margin for error that the first maricopa drop made the other networks not trust.

Now we're in this stupid game of chicken because Fox and the AP calling NV means they'd have the presidency called. Once AZ is called by Edison (which feeds ABC, NBC and CNN) the other networks will call NV.

Otherwise we have this weird few day long period where 2 networks call the race before the others.

They're trying to cut down on confusion, but in reality this is just making things more dangerous nationally.

I try to avoid conspiratorial thinking, but I have to wonder if this was strategic on Fox's part. Of course it wasn't, but it sure is some inadvertant ratfucking.

[Edge-]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/armed-...ticles&via=rss

One of the armed men arrested while traveling to Philadelphia’s vote-counting center is a QAnon obsessive who posted violent, anti-Semitic comics online. The other is a President Trump super-fan who urged social media users to poll watch and suggested the 2020 election was being stolen from the president.

QAnon conspiracy theorist Antonio Lamotta, 61, was arrested Thursday with 42-year-old Joshua Macias, the co-founder of “Vets for Trump,” on federal firearms charges after authorities reportedly received a tip that a group was headed from Virginia to the Pennsylvania Convention Center, the site of the city’s ballot count, to “straighten things out.”

Huh, so Q-anon nutters and Trump organizers. Not surprised.

[Thepersona]

PA up by 20k. Votes came from Allegheny county, so Philly 25k votes are still not in.

[Kaleredar]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/armed-...ticles&via=rss



Huh, so Q-anon nutters and Trump organizers. Not surprised.

I’m glad these guys are so blindingly obvious. Hopefully, if they know of any other attempts at violence, they’ll sing like canaries.

[Mifuyne]

Huh, so Q-anon nutters and Trump organizers. Not surprised.

I can "see" why people might vote for Mr Trump.
These QAnon scare me, sounds like the people that will intice larger groups.

Some shit has been attempted but FBI and local authorities nipped it in the bud before hand.

Awesome! Let's hope people on both sides stay safe from the extremists

[Felya]

PA up by 20k. Votes came from Allegheny county, so Philly 25k votes are still not in.

What’s the number to skip recount?

[Hinastorm]

I'm gonna do a RL REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE if they don't call it before, like, 9 pm pst tonight. This is getting dumb.

[Thepersona]

What’s the number to skip recount?

0,5% i believe, so around 50k

[beanman12345]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/armed-...ticles&via=rss



Huh, so Q-anon nutters and Trump organizers. Not surprised.

interesting, last i heard the q anon circles are propagating that trump lost on purpose so he could more easily leak his information he's gathered while being president now that he'll be a private citizen. nutjobs.

[Eveningforest]

Yeah, the tension is real. Someone needs to just do it, then all the other networks follow.

[Edge-]

interesting, last i heard the q anon circles are propagating that trump lost on purpose so he could more easily leak his information he's gathered while being president now that he'll be a private citizen. nutjobs.

Reality is putty in the hands of conspiracy theorists, molding and reshaping it on a whim to conform with their lunacy.

[Egomaniac]

It's not happening. I'm going to blast you once you see for yourself.
[Infraction]

You should come on back and give your mea culpas :P

[TigTone]

interesting, last i heard the q anon circles are propagating that trump lost on purpose so he could more easily leak his information he's gathered while being president now that he'll be a private citizen. nutjobs.

The extreme need to romanticize their lives should be investigated by therapist and see if stems from other mental issues.

[PhaelixWW]

What’s the number to skip recount?

Auto recount is <0.5%, but PA allows for a recount at any request, regardless of vote difference, as long as the requester pays for it.

[Egomaniac]

Yeah, the tension is real. Someone needs to just do it, then all the other networks follow.

The networks have been pretty shy about prematurely calling elections since Gore/Bush.

[Edge-]

Auto recount is <0.5%, but PA allows for a recount at any request, regardless of vote difference, as long as the requester pays for it.

Incoming fundraising emails...that are already happening. I mean, the Trump campaign will "pay" for it, but they'll do so with donor money. Including from poor Lindsey Graham, who spent months begging for money on Fox News only to have enough to through a cool half a million towards Trump's legal fund.

[Jodmos]

BBC has noted bomb threats in Philadelphia.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/elec...-2020-54786937

[Felya]

Auto recount is <0.5%, but PA allows for a recount at any request, regardless of vote difference, as long as the requester pays for it.

So... we are still dependent on AZ and NV... kk...

[cubby]

PA up by 20k. Votes came from Allegheny county, so Philly 25k votes are still not in.

What's the threshold for no auto-recount?

[Ripster42]

All of it. In this context, yes, our local Trump supporters have been 100% quiet on the subject.

You sure about that? There sure are a lot of new accounts and newly active old accounts.