Oh - and one more point
maybe they didn’t allow for Georgia going blue
From your lips to God’s ears!
I wonder what the chances it’s blue are now.
When I started filling out mine, I used a fine tip sharpie. Then I freaked and turned it over to see that my marks had bled through. Luckily the two circles I colored in didn’t have any text or circles behind them or I could imagine it could make my marks look unclear on the reverse side. I wonder if that could be a thing? I immediately switched to a ball point pen.
When and where did Biden supposedly say this?.
“have drunk”
That is all.
I used a Sharpie. They bleed through, but the ballot was designed so that the bleed is well away from the bubbles on the other side.
I still far prefer the old “complete-the-arrow” ballots.
Maybe they found some of those votes at the post office?
I wondered if a scanner/reader machine could get confused and spit it out as a reject though.
Would assume that anything the scanner rejects has to be cross checked by a human
Repubbie Hubby is now home, so I will need to rely on the Lovely Dopers to keep me abreast of changing situations for now.
I doubt it. Any reasonable software would use the alignment markings on the edges of the ballot, and just look at a small area around each bubble. Not saying that it’s impossible, but it would take some really crap software to mess that up.
But, stray markings on the sync lines on the edge of the ballot would probably cause it to be rejected.
Having worked for the Yavapai Recorder’s office, I am able to say that as of 10 years ago, all rejected ballots are double checked by a human.
Sharpies are well known to be associated with fraud! 
Trump’s lead in ga and pa are melting.
James “raging Cajun” was the reason I was able to get a bit of sleep early this am. He sounded really confident. As did joe Biden, and David (Obama’s campaign lead). Looks like it is playing out like they said.
That’s actually good news in PA. The more outstanding votes, the more time for Biden to overcome Trump’s current lead.
I’m still freaking out. People are acting like Biden is going to win(even he seems to think so), but how sure are we really that he’ll win PA, GA, or NV? In addition to AZ?
My heart can’t take the tease! Please be true!
In the article, an official states that using a Sharpie isn’t a problem.
Me too… the head says the numbers are there, but I just can’t bring myself to believe it yet. Every time the vote stops in PA (which it has been now for 40+ minutes) I freak out again.
AHA! And there it just updated again. Votes in Beaver County take the margin to 192,380. Beaver County, btw, is a Trump+18 county.
Last time, it was a total shock. I think cautiously optimistic is okay this time.