# Election Day \[Week\]\[Month\[s\]\] \[Year\] 2020 follow-along thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 3, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618 "2020-11-03T05:36:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 395
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7896 "2020-12-15T01:08:42Z")
I love these one sentence denials. I expect that the next ones will just be in 24 point bold font: **DENIED!** ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7897 "2020-12-15T01:10:17Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > DENIED! Might I suggest: YOU’RE FIRED! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7898 "2020-12-15T01:12:15Z")
There’s video of a bunch of people calling themselves Republican electors trying to get into the Michigan state capitol, and a policeman keeping them out. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7899 "2020-12-15T01:17:53Z")
Terrorists. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7900 "2020-12-15T01:58:40Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > This isn’t as harmless as you might assume. At the joint session of Congress to count the electors, the session is required to consider certificates of election from states as well as, “any documents purporting to be certificates of election.” The rules also require that the state-validated certificates must be the ones that are counted, but the mere fact that Republicans will be able to point to two separate sets of electors for Georgia will turn it into even more of a circus. See my OP in a separate thread, in which I ask for some detailed explanation of how this might really work . . . > [@Questions about those alt-Republican electoral slates .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-those-alt-republican-electoral-slates/928066): > > (Somebody stop me if we’ve done this before.) I have questions about those “alternate Republican electors” who are voting for Trump in states that Biden won. First: Are these the actual electors chosen by the Republican party, the ones who would have gone to vote for Trump had Trump actually won the popular vote? Or are these just a bunch of rogue self-appointed MAGAt nut-cases who are calling themselves “electors”? Second: A question about what happens if these fake electors send their vote… ---
**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7901 "2020-12-15T02:08:14Z")
Yes…The ballot curing deadline being extended by 3 days in Pennsylvania is the one win, according to Marc Elias. The other one that some poster above cited, about the distance that the observers could be in Philadelphia, was apparently reversed on appeal, so that one does not count as a win for Trump and his allies. Marc Elias’s count is 1-and-59 for Trump & his allies. As implied above, he only counts each case once even if it goes through various appeals to different courts, with just the final ruling counting. And, he does not count any case that is some person representing themselves in order to weed out the real quacks (as opposed to the Trump-supported quacks like Giuliani & Ellis). ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7902 "2020-12-15T02:20:55Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I love these one sentence denials. > > I expect that the next ones will just be in 24 point bold font: > > **DENIED!** I think it was Weekend Update who suggested the 🙄 emoji… ---
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7904 "2020-12-15T02:22:14Z")
[![](https://i.gifer.com/9Uhk.gif) ](https://i.gifer.com/9Uhk.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7905 "2020-12-15T02:26:13Z")
I’m thinking Mike Pence won’t attend the electoral college vote count and it will fall to the Presdient Pro Tempore(Chuck Grassley) to process the final part of the election. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7906 "2020-12-15T02:44:39Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Oh, do go on. I just love watching you lose Wolf Blitzer used the word “lose” (or loser, or lost) about ten times in about three minutes, as the last states cast their electoral votes. He seemed to relish the word. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7907 "2020-12-15T02:52:25Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’m thinking Mike Pence won’t attend the electoral college vote count and it will fall to the Presdient Pro Tempore So, he’ll be en route to Slovenia on Trump’s jet, too? ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7908 "2020-12-15T03:29:08Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RtXtOuxBuvQ/hqdefault.jpg "NBA Dikembe Mutombo GEICO Commercial (no no no not in my house)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXtOuxBuvQ) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7909 "2020-12-15T03:34:27Z")
The New York Times is already doing retrospective musing on trump and referring to him in the past tense. Hehe. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7910 "2020-12-15T03:59:51Z")
> **[Maryland's GOP governor skewers Republicans' 'embarrassing' refusal to accept...](https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/larry-hogan-2020-election-trump-biden-cnntv/index.html)** > > Maryland GOP Gov. Larry Hogan on Monday assailed the wide swath of Republicans on Capitol Hill who have refused to accept the outcome of the presidential election, casting their stance as "embarrassing" for the Republican Party. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7911 "2020-12-15T04:15:03Z")
Has Trump commented on the Electoral College vote? ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7912 "2020-12-15T05:20:01Z")
It seems like these knuckleheads should be threatened with arrest for fraud. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7913 "2020-12-15T05:50:35Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Has Trump commented on the Electoral College vote? “Fake News. No one ever even heard of this Electrical College. I have a real degree, from Wharton. No, you can’t see the transcripts.” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7914 "2020-12-15T07:17:09Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Has Trump commented on the Electoral College vote? Not specifically, but he sure is calling his terrorists to action. > **[Trump declares 'this Fake Election can no longer stand' in after-midnight...](https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/trump-declares-this-fake-election-can-no-longer-stand-in-after-midnight-twitter-rant/)** > > On Monday, President-elect Joe Biden officially won the Electoral College 306-234.It was the same outcome that President Donald Trump described as a "landslide" after he received 306 Electoral Votes in 2016. But Trump has refused to concede and is... ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7915 "2020-12-15T07:30:35Z")
I read the article expecting to see “retiring” or “outgoing” next to his R. title, but didn’t, so I guess it’s time for the primary-hammer to come down. No idea, though, how blue MD is - maybe he can weather any pushback? ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7916 "2020-12-15T08:30:26Z")
I looked this up online - Maryland governors are limited to two terms and he’s in his second one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=394) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=396)