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JWeinCom on 06 November 2020



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Xxain on 06 November 2020

Recount in Georgia confirmed...... Ridiculous.



Cerebralbore101 on 06 November 2020
Xxain said:
Recount in Georgia confirmed...... Ridiculous.

Recounts typically only move the vote count up or down by 200-500 votes. Biden's lead isn't going away.



sundin13 on 06 November 2020
Xxain said:
Recount in Georgia confirmed...... Ridiculous.

This is entirely normal for such a tight margin. 

However, recounts typically only result in a change of about 200 votes. If this exact vote count holds, it would be require a record setting recount to flip the state.



Mr_Destiny on 06 November 2020
Bofferbrauer2 said:
RolStoppable said:

In a proper democracy it's the norm that every town has its dedicated place to cast votes, but not so much in the USA.

Just to give you some perspective of scope here, Houston had only one single polling station for all it's 5 million inhabitants

That was the number of drop boxes if you wanted to hand-deliver your absentee ballot. There were 800 polling places in the county this year, as well as ten drive-through polling places.



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Barozi on 06 November 2020

Why does anybody care about Georgia when the only place that matters is Pennsylvania?

They have to do a recount, so what? Even if Trump wins the state, it's absolutely meaningless.



Mr_Destiny on 06 November 2020
Cerebralbore101 said:

AS PER 538 BIDEN JUST TOOK THE LEAD IN PA!!!!! IT"S OVER! OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS FUCKING OVER!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!

For now, we've simply delayed a possible authoritarian takeover. If we don't take the senate, the judiciary will become more and more right-wing and eventually throw out any remaining protection for voting rights.



Mr_Destiny on 06 November 2020
JRPGfan said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Just to give you some perspective of scope here, Houston had only one single polling station for all it's 5 million inhabitants. Meanwhile, during our last election here in Luxembourg, our little capital city of Luxembourg has 27 polling stations despite only having barely 100k inhabitants. Heck, even just our town with it's 2500 inhabitants, while just having one polling station, had 6 lines depending on your last name (A-C, D-G, H-L, M-O, P-S, T-Z), and casting a vote only takes you 1-3 minutes depending how sure you are who to give your vote.

That is facking crazy too...  5 million people for 1 single polling station? holy fudge.

1 mail ballot drop box, 800 in-person polling places (I don't mean to be picking on you Bofferbrauer ;) )



Xxain on 06 November 2020
Cerebralbore101 said:
Xxain said:
Recount in Georgia confirmed...... Ridiculous.

Recounts typically only move the vote count up or down by 200-500 votes. Biden's lead isn't going away.

Im not expected any changes and that is the problem. Wasting our time to prolonged(or attempt to Rigg) an already extended election period. 



sundin13 on 06 November 2020
Barozi said:
Why does anybody care about Georgia when the only place that matters is Pennsylvania?

They have to do a recount, so what? Even if Trump wins the state, it's absolutely meaningless.

Georgia would be a nice victory lap.

The race is over. Biden won. The rest is just icing, but damn does it feel good.