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Post by Admin Twaddleford on Apr 18, 2020 11:12:41 GMT
29 electoral college votes
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Post by curiousliberal on Jul 11, 2020 19:13:24 GMT
Laughable incompetence - at best.
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Post by David Boothroyd on Jul 11, 2020 19:21:25 GMT
Be interesting to know what procedure voters have to go through in order to cast a valid absentee ballot.
The UK rejection rate in the 2019 general election was about 4%. some through failing to include/match personal identifiers, others for the same reasons ballots are ordinarily rejected.
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Post by jamie on Jul 11, 2020 21:01:16 GMT
Quite a few American states are completely incompetent at implementing postal voting. New York has an insanely high rejection rate (in large part due to it being unclear you even need to give a signature on the ballot), taking weeks to count the ballots, and even refusing to announce them for a while after they've been counted. California has a similar issue with counties having iirc a month to count the ballots and taking their sweet time to do so. Washington even has it written in law that postal ballots cannot be counted until after election day.
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Post by curiousliberal on Jul 11, 2020 21:34:07 GMT
At this rate, some of these states which are newer to VBM or only using absentee voting could see Democrats disadvantaged compared to Republicans who have been encouraged to avoid voting by mail (and therefore will be less susceptible to having their ballots rejected). The only upside is it probably won't matter much at the presidential level in NYC.
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Post by conservativeestimate on Jul 11, 2020 22:09:05 GMT
Laughable incompetence - at best. Voter suppression - at worst. |
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Post by curiousliberal on Jul 11, 2020 22:21:30 GMT
Laughable incompetence - at best. Voter suppression - at worst. "Absence from my district means I win via absentee ballots" - Elliot Engel, if he somehow pulls it off N.B. if he does win the absentee vote but loses narrowly thanks to the in-person vote, he may have this debacle to blame. |
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Post by Richard Allen on Jul 12, 2020 8:40:15 GMT
I note that Louisiana held their presidential primary yesterday and managed to count all the votes within a few hours of the polls closing.
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 12, 2020 8:52:44 GMT
I note that Louisiana held their presidential primary yesterday and managed to count all the votes within a few hours of the polls closing. Bloody reactionaries.  |
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Post by curiousliberal on Jul 12, 2020 12:49:20 GMT
I note that Louisiana held their presidential primary yesterday and managed to count all the votes within a few hours of the polls closing. Tbf they only had one special election and the presidential primaries held yesterday and they were apparently fairly low turnout events (congressional primaries are yet to be held). |
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Post by minionofmidas on Jul 25, 2020 10:16:39 GMT
Laughable incompetence - at best. Voter suppression - at worst. Both, writ very large. They sem to be somehow managing to mostly discard establishment-friendly votes. |
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Post by David Boothroyd on Aug 15, 2020 17:41:47 GMT
Yeah, right  |
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Post by conservativeestimate on Aug 15, 2020 19:12:03 GMT
Yeah, right Are Nixon and Trump the only Presidents who changed their home state before running for re-election? |
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Post by David Boothroyd on Aug 15, 2020 19:58:24 GMT
Eisenhower's home state was New York in 1952 but Pennsylvania when running for re-election in 1956.
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Post by conservativeestimate on Aug 15, 2020 20:12:03 GMT
Eisenhower's home state was New York in 1952 but Pennsylvania when running for re-election in 1956. Should have known that. 🤦🏼♂️ Any Democrats change their home state? |
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Post by curiousliberal on Aug 15, 2020 20:50:47 GMT
Eisenhower's home state was New York in 1952 but Pennsylvania when running for re-election in 1956. Should have known that. 🤦🏼♂️ Any Democrats change their home state? There once was an Arkansan Democrat Who returned to political combat Her home state grown red She picked New York instead And the US Senate, at that |
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Post by CatholicLeft on Aug 15, 2020 21:00:34 GMT
Should have known that. 🤦🏼♂️ Any Democrats change their home state? There once was an Arkansan Democrat Who returned to political combat Her home state grown red She picked New York instead And the US Senate, at that To be fair, she was a Chicago girl. |
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Post by heslingtonian on Oct 28, 2020 19:48:31 GMT
A big rejection of Trump from his former home state. Something like Biden 64%, Trump 34%
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Post by AJS on Nov 11, 2020 1:53:59 GMT
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Post by Richard Allen on Nov 11, 2020 2:05:52 GMT
The remaining votes are the absentee ballots and they will skew heavily to Biden. The pollsters probably won't be that far out in the end. |
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