Election Day [Week][Month[s]] [Year] 2020 follow-along thread

On this he has a bit of a point. Not much of one, but a bit. Voting machines, any voting machine, are problematic. There is a potential for error or fraud. They sometimes do miscount votes. They can be hacked.

I do not believe that it made a difference in this election. If there was error, it was just as likely to be in Trumps favour as against him. If someone hacked the system it might have been a Trump supporter.

It’s my opinion that all voting should be paper only.

“Me Big Man!!!” < thumps chest >

Thanks for clarification, both of you.

An of course, Trump can not help but to continue to make huge lies about Operation Warp Speed and Pfizer

TRUMP: “As a result of Operation Warp Speed, Pfizer announced on Monday that its China virus vaccine was more than 90% effective. …Pfizer said it wasn’t part of Warp Speed, but that turned out to be an unfortunate misrepresentation.”

THE FACTS: Not so much. Pfizer notably did not accept government money to develop, test or expand manufacturing capacity under Trump’s Operation Warp Speed initiative to quickly find a vaccine and treatments for the disease sweeping the country.

In fact, Pfizer partnered with the vaccine’s original developer, Germany’s BioNTech, in March and the following month announced the first human study in Germany. The White House announced Operation Warp Speed in May.

It must hurt Trump to realize that we all have to thank the leader of the free world for that one…

Angela Merkel. :wink:

There is a big difference between purely electronic voting machines vs. ballot counting machines. It looks like most of the Dominion uses here are with their ballot counting machines. The ballots themselves are paper, and can be counted by hand if necessary. There are reasons for concern about fully electronic voting but ballot counting seems like a non-issue to me. It would be difficult to get away with any kind of hack since the result is so easily verified by comparing against hand counting or another machine.

He would never, ever concede THAT. He hates her to his guts. An uppity, academic woman(!), who doesn’t have to rely on any sex appeal or flash but on her smarts, a fucking scientist by trade of all people! :scream:

Melania allegedly got through her COVID by ‘good nutrition and alternative treatments.’

Focusing on CFSG’s newly white hair … I can’t help but wonder …

Maybe – as it has occasionally appeared – he really struggled to kick his COVID symptoms despite The Best Treatment In The World.

Maybe Melania convinced him to try a few things.

Maybe a colonic irrigation.

Maybe … absent a few stones of impacted shit … his natural hair color just magically comes back.

It could happen.

I agree as long as anyone (read all sides) can count the paper ballots.

I am too lazy to look it up but I recall a Kansas(?) election where some people felt there were some statistical irregularities and wanted access to the ballots. They were prepared to pay all costs associated with that. Kansas told them to go pound sand.

As long as an election can be audited and inspected by all sides and there are physical ballots to count I think the system works. As soon as parts start getting blocked it becomes less certain.

Electronic only…no way. We see systems hacked all the time. This would not be good.

Nice! Danke, Angela.

Does this guy think he’s running for something or something??

I don’t know if any states do this, but random spot checks also sound like a good idea. Order that some random subset of counties or districts have to do a hand recount after the electronic one. Investigate if there’s a discrepancy greater than some very small value.

It is not counting during the election and has no effect on the election. It is checking after it is all over. It does not interfere with anything. The people wanting to do this have to pay the costs for the state to make it happen.

Just a nice statistic, and a sign how Trump damaged the relations to America’s closest allies: I just saw a (reputable) poll on ZDF asking the German people the question: How will the relations between the USA and Germany change under Biden?

85%: improve
13%: stay the same
0%: worsen

Was 2% :There’s still a United States?

Maybe he wants to look more like Joe Biden. Maybe he wants people to think he IS Joe Biden. That’s all I got.

Maybe, but also “I’m drunk at the moment and cannot answer your question” is possible.

Tweet from McCain’s daughter:

I know this was hours ago in this fast moving thread so I quoted it.

I think we should make a Pit thread making bets on how soon Trump gets kicked off of Twitter, Facebook (I know they change the WH over to the new Pres. and archive the previous administration’s and I have no idea if DJT has an actual FB account of his own), LinkedIn, and also the last time Trump’s name gets a headline on any MSM site.

Because after Jan 20, 2021 … he no longer has “immunity”.

In the future I’ll only read an article about him if it’s about NYS court stuff.

When Winston Churchill first started contesting, they could keep up with the processing because they spread out the voting over several weeks. And that wasn’t even universal suffrage.

I really like that woman!