Total Early Votes: 100,298,838 In-Person Votes: 35,733,103 Mail Ballots Returned: 64,565,735

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[Marthe48]

1. I saw that there are about 255 million people

of voting age in the U.S.A. in 2020

I hope every person who wants to casts a vote.

My daughter and her husband chose to vote in person today. I can't believe I had to mention to her to be safe while they are at their polling place. I hope this is the last U.S. election that is fraught with danger.

[frazzled]

2. It's amazing, but a note of caution

Not all those votes will be announced tonight in every state. Some states, including some critical swing states, do not count the mail-in ballots tonight; they only begin to process them after the polls close, so it could take days.

So please note that the usual metric—"precincts reporting"—is not the one to watch tonight: the totals will be incomplete in a number of states. What to watch for is "ballots outstanding." Hopefully, the number of ballots outstanding in several swing states will be fewer than the number of votes Trump needs to close the gap (e.g., he's behind by 125,000 votes, but there are only 85,000 ballots left to be counted; even if he were to win every one of those outstanding ballots, he could not win).

[beachbumbob]

3. If unaffliated breaks 2-1 to Biden and 5% of GOP affiliated vote Biden

the math is clear, Biden has a 20 million (and easily more) vote advantage when the votes are posted minutes after the polls close (except in states that didn;t count ballots before today)

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Was scanning for a Philly covid presser and found a livestream of Philly

pre-canvass and canvassing

They are doing this at the PA Convention Center in Philly and I believe this section of the operation is for the mail-in ballots. They have to sort by Ward/Division (there is a barcode on the envelopes), verify the outer envelopes are completed correctly, then extract the outer envelopes, and then extract the ballots from the "secrecy envelopes", and then stack the ballots for running through the scanners/tabulators (the ballots are also marked by Ward/Division).