# 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:** 429
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8579 "2021-01-12T00:32:08Z")
This seems the best place to put it - The State Department has sanctioned Russia for the 2020 disinformation campaign: > Since at least 2019, Derkach and his associates have leveraged U.S. media, U.S.-based social media platforms, and influential U.S. persons to spread misleading and unsubstantiated allegations that current and former U.S. officials engaged in corruption, money laundering, and unlawful political influence in Ukraine. And if I read another article correctly - these are specifically the people working with Rudy. [https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/us-russia-sanctions/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/us-russia-sanctions/index.html) [https://www.state.gov/sanctioning-russia-linked-disinformation-network-for-its-involvement-in-attempts-to-influence-u-s-election/](https://www.state.gov/sanctioning-russia-linked-disinformation-network-for-its-involvement-in-attempts-to-influence-u-s-election/) > **[Treasury Takes Further Action Against Russian-linked Actors](https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1232)** > > WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took additional action against seven individuals and four entities that are part of a Russia-linked foreign influence network associated with Andrii... ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8580 "2021-01-12T00:40:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Heh. I love that his all-time-most-popular tweet was the one in which he announced he’d contracted COVID-19. Like! ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8581 "2021-01-12T11:49:02Z")
Michigan suit (Constatino v Detroit) dropped [https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/11/Stipulated-Order-Dismissing-Case-Without-Prejudice-signed-by-court\_January-11-2021.pdf](https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/11/Stipulated-Order-Dismissing-Case-Without-Prejudice-signed-by-court_January-11-2021.pdf) That makes 64 Brian ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8582 "2021-01-12T12:42:13Z")
Thanks for that! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8583 "2021-01-12T13:51:59Z")
@N9IWP you’ve been doing a tremendous job the past few months, posting all the decisions on the election challenges. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8584 "2021-01-12T14:59:41Z")
I pretty much just forwarding [https://www.democracydocket.com/](https://www.democracydocket.com/) (well, it may take a little work to find the actual PDF, but it is mostly there somewhere) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8585 "2021-01-12T15:03:38Z")
Yes, but you’re taking the time and effort to find those links and then post them all here, so others can read them and keep informed. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8586 "2021-01-12T15:27:04Z")
Aye: you are doing the work to help us help ourselves and it is appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8587 "2021-01-12T15:49:32Z")
Yup, and I also appreciate the mod(s) who has been updating the thread title as this shit drags out. I hope we can have a ceremonial closing of the thread on the 20th. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8588 "2021-01-12T15:58:39Z")
Trump’s biggest financial supporter just [died.](https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/business/sheldon-adelson-death/index.html). Who was it that said “I wish for no man’s death, but I’ve read many an obituary with great satisfaction?” ---
**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:** [January 12, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8589 "2021-01-12T16:03:28Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > “I wish for no man’s death, but I’ve read many an obituary with great satisfaction?” Mark Twain, I think. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8590 "2021-01-12T16:10:00Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Mark Twain, I think No, I think it was Samuel Clemens. 😉 ---
**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:** [January 12, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8591 "2021-01-12T16:22:53Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > No, I think it was Samuel Clemens. No, no, it was that guy who wrote Huckleberry Twain. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8592 "2021-01-12T16:40:26Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Who was it that said “I wish for no man’s death, but I’ve read many an obituary with great satisfaction?” The other guys jest, (and I lol) but for the record: Clarence Darrow’s (of the Scopes trial fame) from his 1932 work The Story of My Life: > All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. And yes, my themed dead pool for this year is that subject: “obituary notices that I will read with great satisfaction” if you are curious. But I did not have the GOP donor on that list. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8593 "2021-01-12T16:46:47Z")
Ran out of edit, I wanted to add that how sad it was that a philanthropist that looked to end up having a good legacy soiled it almost completely by supporting a rat like Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8594 "2021-01-12T16:58:35Z")
I would not use the word “philanthropist” to describe Sheldon Adelson without many, many qualifiers. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8595 "2021-01-12T17:26:49Z")
Correct! Not my idea of a philanthropist. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8596 "2021-01-12T17:30:48Z")
Yes, a very, very “specialized” kind of philanthropist. Also a very regressive type of Republican backer. He supported Newt Gingrich over Mitt Romney in 2012, and went all-out for Trump in 2016. It was like, find the worst possible candidate, and there would be ol’ man Adelson with his moneybags. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8597 "2021-01-12T17:36:01Z")
I heard today that Adelson kept Gingrich’s presidential bid on life support, strictly because Gingrich supported moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Talk about a single-issue voter… ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8598 "2021-01-12T21:17:22Z")
Suit in New Mexico (Trump v Oliver filed December 14) voluntarily dismissed This was yesterday, so may be #64 [https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/12/show\_temp.pl-2-2.pdf](https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/12/show_temp.pl-2-2.pdf) Brian [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=428) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=430)