# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/141 "2020-11-03T22:06:33Z")
> [@Jumpbass](#): > > I’d really like to not watch loud mouth fools yammering at me Try WGN. We had them on during the debates. > **[NewsNation Prime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsNation_(WGN_America))** > > NewsNation Prime is an American television news program on NewsNation, which premiered nationally on September 1, 2020. Broadcast live from Chicago, the program utilizes the journalistic resources of the 110 television news operations throughout the United States that are operated under the network's corporate parent Nexstar Media Group. The program is designed as an alternative to the opinion-based programs on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel, the top-rated cable news networks in the country i... ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/142 "2020-11-03T22:09:38Z")
So there is far less nefarious shit going down than I predicted. I thought Trump would make a call for his goons to go attack voting sites and intimidate people. He wasn’t just hinting at it before, he openly called for it at the debates, so I figured he would very clearly call for it today. But I guess the plan is going to be invalidating votes after the fact, casting doubt, and just generally declaring himself to be president sometime tonight. All the early voting may have dictated the plan. You could call your goon squads out to intimidate and destroy on election day, but that doesn’t undo the 100m votes cast before election day. For that, you need legal and political coups. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/143 "2020-11-03T22:11:26Z")
Does everyone agree that the biggest shit-show possible is if in a couple of weeks the election is called, but its within a few faithless electors of changing the outcome?? ---
**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:** [November 3, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/144 "2020-11-03T22:19:11Z")
I think he wanted the goon squads, they just didn’t show up. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/145 "2020-11-03T22:20:29Z")
It’s so hard to get goon squads that aren’t full of goons. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/146 "2020-11-03T22:21:33Z")
I choose to believe we’re going to smear him. I’m going to start drinking now. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/147 "2020-11-03T22:22:12Z")
Here’s a unique way to suppress Democratic votes: an election official and her staff in Texas are refusing to wear masks. If you want to vote, you need to risk your health. > ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/148 "2020-11-03T22:29:20Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > > [@nelliebly](#): > > > > Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. > > That’s the Neutral Zone. Montana, Idaho, New Mexico & Wyoming almost form a Forbidden Zone where _nobody_ lives. > [@TroutMan](#): > > Here’s a unique way to suppress Democratic votes: an election official and her staff in Texas are refusing to wear masks. If you want to vote, you need to risk your health. They should post a sign out front: You must be at least _this_ stupid to ride this ride. With a line labeled IQ set about 3 feet above the floor with downwards pointing arrows above it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/149 "2020-11-03T22:32:52Z")
> [@Jumpbass](#): > > I’ll be watching online My apologies; here’s the website. > **[NewsNation](https://www.newsnationnow.com/)** > > U.S. News ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/150 "2020-11-03T22:33:36Z")
What’s the best non-cable/antenna video news coverage of the election? [CNNgo – Watch CNN TV live](http://cnn.com/go) is free, ABC news is streaming on hulu, but I have no idea if their news coverage is any good. Any suggestions? ---
**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:** [November 3, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/151 "2020-11-03T22:44:34Z")
> **[The Latest: Biden not making predictions on election outcome](https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-delaware-wilmington-elections-29b5233341f4eea285dab7fcb4a2709d)** > > WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local): 5 p.m. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden isn’t making any predictions about the outcome of the election as the final hours of voting tick down. > [@](#): > > Vermont Gov. Phil Scott says he voted for Joe Biden for president, making him the first Republican governor in the nation to acknowledge voting for the Democratic presidential candidate. > > The Republican governor told reporters Tuesday after casting his ballot in his hometown of Berlin, Vermont, that he had never voted for a Democrat in his life. > > “As many of you knew, I didn’t support President Trump. I wasn’t going to vote for him,” Scott said. “But then I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t enough for me to just not vote. I had to vote against.” > > He says he “put country over party, which again wasn’t an easy thing to do in some respects.” Good on ya, Phil! But please, think really hard about supporting positions or people that put you in a position where it’s hard for you to think of putting the nation before the party, Phil. Think _really_ fuckin’ hard about that. ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/152 "2020-11-03T22:47:51Z")
What the what? The USPS can just “turn down” a federal judge’s order to sweep 12 postal districts in the search for 300,000 lost ballots? > **[USPS data shows thousands of mailed ballots missed Election Day deadlines](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/03/election-ballot-delays-usps/)** > > The Postal Service ignored a federal judge’s order to sweep processing plants on Tuesday after more than 300,000 scanned ballots could not be traced. > The U.S. Postal Service turned down a federal judge’s order late Tuesday afternoon to sweep mail processing facilities serving 15 states, saying instead it would stick to its own inspection schedule. The judge’s order came after the agency disclosed that more than 300,000 ballots nationwide could not be traced. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/153 "2020-11-03T22:49:06Z")
What’s the consequence for ignoring it? Nothing? Then why not ignore it? ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/154 "2020-11-03T22:50:52Z")
I remember when “contempt of court” used to be a real thing. Apparently not anymore. Seriously, Judge Sullivan, start issuing some f\*\*\*ing bench warrants. Then see how fast Joe PostOffice gets making with a broom. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/155 "2020-11-03T22:53:36Z")
See? Trump warned us that mail in votes are not secure. They could, for example, fall victim to the fact that the person in charge of the post office was appointed by one of the candidates. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/156 "2020-11-03T22:54:56Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > Does everyone agree that the biggest shit-show possible is if in a couple of weeks the election is called, but its within a few faithless electors of changing the outcome?? If the election is something like 275-263, or worse yet, a 269-269 tie, all electors for both sides will need Secret-Service like protection for weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/157 "2020-11-03T22:56:28Z")
This is helpful. Most of the votes will be counted today in FL, AZ, NC and GA. Biden only needs one, again assuming he gets WI and MI, which will also be mostly counted. Come on NC! Make us all feel a lot better early > **[When To Expect Election Results In Every State](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-results-timing/)** > > A guide to poll closing times on Election Day 2020, major Senate and House races to watch, how long vote counting will take, and when election results are expected in all 50 states. ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/158 "2020-11-03T22:59:46Z")
Cool, thanks. I’ll give them a look. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/159 "2020-11-03T23:00:00Z")
The two things I keep repeating to my wife are the critical role of DeJoy in this election and the backstop that the Trump SCOTUS provides. It’s not who votes. It’s who counts the votes … Yeah. I may as well start drinking, too. Would somebody let my dog out to pee before bedtime ?? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/160 "2020-11-03T23:04:13Z")
Don’t know about today’s lines, because I voted by mail almost a month ago, but the feedback I’m seeing on Facebook has said that at least in Iowa, they usually aren’t very long. Not many people are waiting in line, and they’re getting in and out quickly. Considering the number of people who voted in advance, this doesn’t surprise me. I just heard on the news that as of now, 63% of registered voters in my county have cast their ballots, but we’re open for 4 more hours and the record was 71% in 2008. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=9)