US Election Week 2020

[Josquius]

Truly amazing how down to the wire this is going. Fingers crossed.

[Syt]

Trump already has more votes than Obama in 2008, which so far has been the highest number of a winner.

69,655,365 (Trump 2020) vs. 69,498,516 (Obama 2008).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin

[Solmyr]

[garbon]

Why is the world so dense?

[Liep]

The Swing vs. 2016 Margin plot is very blue.

https://cookpolitical.com/2020-national-popular-vote-tracker

[Sheilbh]

Any reactions to the Trump White house televised statement?

As with his election night statement, he knows he's lost and this is how he'll lose: as a victim. He really won, but it was stolen from him and he was stabbed in the back by his party, his courts etc.

[Josquius]

The Swing vs. 2016 Margin plot is very blue.

https://cookpolitical.com/2020-national-popular-vote-tracker

Encouraging.

[Razgovory]

This looks like it could become violent.

[jimmy olsen]

 

[jimmy olsen]

GA Presidential Election Results - Biden takes the Lead

Biden (D): 49.39.% ( 2,449,371 votes)
Trump (R): 49.37% ( 2,448,454 votes)

Biden Margin: (+917)
Estimated: > 99% votes in

https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1324643210283593728?

[Tamas]

GA Presidential Election Results - Biden takes the Lead

Biden (D): 49.39.% ( 2,449,371 votes)
Trump (R): 49.37% ( 2,448,454 votes)

Biden Margin: (+917)
Estimated: > 99% votes in

https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1324643210283593728?

Nice work Habs.

I did notice Katmai is lagging behind though.

[Tamas]

"Isn't it weird that thousands of votes were cast in name of dead people? If it happened here there'd be such a scandal" - Orban reflects on the US election on the radio this morning.

[katmai]

GA Presidential Election Results - Biden takes the Lead

Biden (D): 49.39.% ( 2,449,371 votes)
Trump (R): 49.37% ( 2,448,454 votes)

Biden Margin: (+917)
Estimated: > 99% votes in

https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1324643210283593728?

Nice work Habs.

I did notice Katmai is lagging behind though.

sorry was taking shower and grabbing midnight snack.

[Josquius]

"Isn't it weird that thousands of votes were cast in name of dead people? If it happened here there'd be such a scandal" - Orban reflects on the US election on the radio this morning.

Obvious bollocks, not unexpected.
But I do wonder on this, with things being so tight. What if someone votes by post the week before the election and dies before election day?

[Sheilbh]

But I do wonder on this, with things being so tight. What if someone votes by post the week before the election and dies before election day?

I don't think it's that tight

My guess is it would depend on the state rules. In the UK there's no check the point is that we count the ballots that were valid at the time they were cast rather than checking if they remain valid at the time they are counted (the other issue could be if someone becomes a prisoner, a lunatic, or a member of the royal family after casting their postal ballot). Given the numbers of people who request postal ballots and that they're particularly popular amoung the elderly (who also turn out most), there's probably a few thousand votes every election year that were made by dead people. And, of course, it's more than possible that someone could vote in person, step out the community centre and get run down by a bus.

But also any way to cure this issue would probably create bigger problems because it wouldn't be a secret ballot any more if we were to identify x ballot with y person and check that they haven't subsequently died.

There have also been dead candidates, some have even won their election, because when they died it was too late to remove them from the ballot.