It is not unprecedented for an election result not to be known on the night of an election.
tzu
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This isnât a fully Putinist country yet, Hawk. There are still elected election officials who will do their damnedest to count all votes, even in this most horrible annus horribilis.
Also, scotch is vile.
Being vile, it is nonetheless preferable to Zuckerberg.
It is depressing that this thread allows for vile scotch drinkers and Zuckerberg to be right.
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Smyrna
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If your vote wasnât counted on the day of election because you decided to vote by mail and not in personâŚthen it shouldnât count. When I wake up the day after the election, I want to know who won. If that doesnât happen, then I suspect foul play is at work and that wonât go down well across the conservative part of our country.
Jezcoe
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Does this apply to everyone or just people whoâs vote you donât agree with?
I mean⌠should military votes not count?
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Smyrna
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The military is prepared and the votes are sent in ahead of time. It isnât done haphazzardly. If you plan to vote by mail, do it way ahead of time like the militaryâŚso that it counts.
Jezcoe
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What about the States who allow for votes to be postmarked on election day?
Why the need to disenfranchise those people?
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Smyrna
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Get off of your ass and vote and do it in a timely manner. If youâre too lazy or unorganized for that, then your vote may not count if it isnât able to be tallied on time?
Jezcoe
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Here is a list of what each State does in the count of mail in ballots.
Some of them by law do not start to count until after the polls close on election day.
So since these ballots will take longer to count than oneâs that are processed by a machine it will take longer and thus the results will likely not be known in some States for a few days.
These votes are legal. It is telling that people are wanting to disenfranchise people because of the âfeelingâ that there is going to be cheating.
It is teeing up not accepting the results months in advance.
We know from DHS reports that attacking the trust of our election process is one of their active disinfo ops. When there is zero evidence of massive voter fraud⌠why believe them?
Smyrna
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Then each state that has this premise, better have their counting act together and be prepared to present the final tally sometime during the night of the election or the wee hours of the morning following it. When the United States wakes up the next day, the election results are done and the President is determined.
We wonât know the final tallies for maybe 2 weeks after November 3rd.
Define âmassive voter fraudâ.
Given the election is ultimately decided by the Electoral College, the official results wonât be until months after the election. Hereâs the timeline of the 2016 election.
https://www.archives.gov/files/electoral-college/key-dates.pdf
SoâŚpeople can eagerly await for FOX/CNN/MSNBC, etc to declare a âwinnerâ on election night but the official winner wonât be named for months. Same as it ever was.
So, I think the safest response is to vote in person and work hard to eliminate very mail in ballot that is not absolutely verifiable as legitimate.
Jezcoe
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Enough to affect a national election.
How do you quantify that? How many votes would that take?
Jezcoe
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When has same night results ever been a requirement before?
Why is it a requirement now?
Isnât it better to take the time to count every legal vote than to satisfy the lack of impulse control that this country has developed?
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Jezcoe
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A very large amount across several States.
How many is âa very large amountâ?
Smyrna
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Jezcoe:
When has same night results ever been a requirement before?
Why is it a requirement now?
Isnât it better to take the time to count every legal vote than to satisfy the lack of impulse control that this country has developed?
When have we ever woken up the next day and not known who was elected President? This subject matter is fireâŚand if it doesnât go down in that timely manner, I expect to see serious civil unrest.
Jezcoe
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It would have to be tens of thousands. Each in several key states.
And this is in an environment where voter fraud is already near nil.