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2020 Election catchall.

Grrrfff! It's been over 24 hours and there's been literally no movement! Lots of speculation, ifs, mights, maybes, etc. The TV anchors are really stretching (and obviously exhausted!)
 
Trump's "Army of Poll-Watchers" seems to have been a no-show. What happened? Was Kushner organising it? Or did the volunteers back out when they realised they'd have to get out of their cars to participate?
 
CapelDodger said:
Trump's "Army of Poll-Watchers" seems to have been a no-show. What happened? Was Kushner organising it? Or did the volunteers back out when they realised they'd have to get out of their cars to participate?
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They knew they weren't gonna get paid, so they didn't show up.
 
Question:

assuming that we will find thousands if not hundreds of thousands of in-bound mail-in ballots undelivered by deJoy's USPS, and in no way will they arrive in time to be counted even if discovered tomorrow ...

... what will happen to them?
will they ever be counted, just to figure out what would have changed? Will the disenfranchised voters at least be informed? Will there be any legal consequences?

I'm sure someone here knows more than me about this.
 
Interesting Ballot Measure in Alaska, that would, among other things:

1) replace partisan primaries with open top-four primaries for state executive, state legislative, and congressional offices;
2) establish ranked-choice voting for general elections, including the presidential election, in which voters would rank the candidates.

At this moment, it is very close, Yes has 171,045 votes, while No has 168,018.

https://ballotpedia.org/Alaska_Ball...ng_and_Campaign_Finance_Laws_Initiative_(2020)

A ranked-choice voting Initiative in Massachusetts was rejected by 55%-45%.
https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_2,_Ranked-Choice_Voting_Initiative_(2020)

(Give it a century, and surely the US will be able to modernize its arcane election system.)
 
Firestone said:
Interesting Ballot Measure in Alaska, that would, among other things:

1) replace partisan primaries with open top-four primaries for state executive, state legislative, and congressional offices;
2) establish ranked-choice voting for general elections, including the presidential election, in which voters would rank the candidates.

At this moment, it is very close, Yes has 171,045 votes, while No has 168,018.

https://ballotpedia.org/Alaska_Ball...ng_and_Campaign_Finance_Laws_Initiative_(2020)

A ranked-choice voting Initiative in Massachusetts was rejected by 55%-45%. https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_2,_Ranked-Choice_Voting_Initiative_(2020)

(Give it a century, and surely the US will be able to modernize its arcane election system.)
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People get nervous at the prospect of eliminating their party's candidate in the primary.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
People get nervous at the prospect of eliminating their party's candidate in the primary.
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It's not clear to me whether the Massachusetts initiative abolishes the partisan primaries, or merely wants them to use RCV instead of first past the post. The latter seems more logical, but admittedly the text of the Initiative is not clear (to me).
This explainer explicitly uses a recent primary to illustrate the effect of the ballot Initiative.
 
JoeMorgue said:
It's the "Well I can afford to be worse because at least I'm not as bad as that person." mentality.

I've long suspected that the appeal of "Slow down and look at the train wreck" shows like Hoarders and My 600 Pound Life and all that come from people who have lesser versions of the same (or thematically similar) problems and watch the show to specifically feel less guilty because "Well at least I'm not that bad."

That's what Trump has been to some members of the GOP. When you're watching My 600 Pound Life and you're only 300 pounds, it's easier for some people to enjoy that second slice of strawberry cheesecake.
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Maybe it affects different people differently. For example, I consider myself a mild packrat. When I see "hoarders" it scares the hell out of me because I worry that I could become that if I neglect a situation for too long.

Fortunately my wife is a minimalist and the trend has been away from accumulation. I've been able to just let go of so much stuff gathered in my garage from over the years, and even trust her to go through an old box oir something without me and understand what might be important to me and what isn't.

She doesn't do that a lot anyway, because (fairly) she thinks I should be doing that work. But it's a good feeling of trust to have, that she knows me well enough not to throw away anything that matters, by mistake. We're actually planning a move, and she's gotten me on board the idea that the less stuff we have, the easier the actual move will be.

The ability to digitize content helped a lot too. My library is mostly e-books, mp3s, and video files now instead of boxes filled with books, CDs, DVDs, etc.
 
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