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It is all about who gets to count the ballots and when they are counted (Original Post)
UCmeNdc
Nov 2020
OP
AFIK we have never, ever, had a final ballot count on election day. With all the soldiers...
TreasonousBastard
Nov 2020
#1
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything" - Josef Staln
Initech
Nov 2020
#3
If they are small rural counties and Biden has a big enough lead, it won't matter
Quixote1818
Nov 2020
#4
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)1. AFIK we have never, ever, had a final ballot count on election day. With all the soldiers...
students, people on international assignment, people in nursing homes or other restrictions on leaving home, and provisional ballots, among other things I can't think of at the moment.
I keep saying that voting is a fundamental right where the default is to let you vote, not force you to come up with reasons you should be allowed to vote.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)5. Or create artificial reasons to stop counting legally cast votes.......
There is no valid reason to stop counting legally mailed in ballots because you could not count all of them within 6 days after Nov 3rd 2020.
CountAllVotes
(20,866 posts)2. How long will it take?
This is the question that most people have on their minds right now.
How long before we can purge dump from the USA?
Initech
(100,035 posts)3. "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything" - Josef Staln
Quixote1818
(28,918 posts)4. If they are small rural counties and Biden has a big enough lead, it won't matter
the state would be called that night as a few small counties would not be able to make up the difference.
dchill
(38,439 posts)6. "It's all over but the counting... and we'll take care of the counting."
Rep. Peter King R-NY, 2003.