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Don’t you see?! They did that on purpose to throw the sheeple off!! Open your eyes, man!

You have a strange relationship with the burden of proof No, not impossible, just outlandish. Again, when these discrepancies are found they are reported by the people whose job it is to find them AS PART OF THE PROCESS. If they are trying to “steal an election” they are doing a terrible job of it.

The fact that so many discrepancies were caught and reported by the ballot processing centers themselves AS A RESULT OF THEIR AUDITING PROCESS makes the above...silly

No. And even if it were, it wouldn't change the outcome of the election.

I realize that this is only maricopa county, but may help answer some of your questions, assuming that the situation is consistent across the state https://twitter.com/MaricopaVote Also: https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html#

That's an interesting take and I appreciate you sharing it. As someone who is a citizen, I have to share with you that there are a lot of smart people who all have a different understanding of what axis defines the divide, but all agree that that a divide exists and is growing wider. Maybe it's rural vs urban. Maybe it's college educated vs non-college educated. Maybe it's globalists vs those who feel left behind by their policies. Every theory I hear sound pretty plausible. No matter what turns out to be the actual root of the issue, the fact that we have people profiting off the nonsense and large percentage of people who lack the skill (through no fault of their own) to discern bulls**t from reality is a sure sign that no clear end is in sight.

I can't speak to C-SPANs funding, but NPR gets a very small percentage of it's funding from the government. https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances I think we're mostly on the same page here. The problem with our media isn't that it's liberal; it's that it's corporate. Which unfortunately takes our fourth estate and pretty much locks it into a race to the bottom. Fox News exists to keep the right wing constantly triggered. MSNBC exists to keep the left wing constantly triggered. Meanwhile, actual journalism becomes harder to find while the public continues to mistake "being entertained" with "being informed"

Same reason why "ThE sKooLz R fULL of liBtaRdz!!1!"; people who skew conservative want to get make money, not teach others.

If Laura Cox said it, it must be true

To clarify: Some states allowed mail-in ballots to have signatures verified and envelopes opened before November 3rd. Some states also began removing ballots from envelopes and feeding them into voting machines Tuesday morning. Other states waited until November 5th to start doing any of that. "Pre-processing" doesn't necessarily mean "counting the votes" and I should have been more specific in my previous post EDIT: Not to mention that PA uses not one but two envelopes, making even more work for volunteers who have twice as much paper to process and a few more hoops to jump through when deciding whether a ballot has been spoiled or not.

The baseline seems to be 3000 ballots per hour. Once a ballot is fed into a machine and a result is tabulated, it has to be audited, then certified, then passed off to a reporting authority. Also, volunteers need to eat, sleep, use the bathroom, etc. Blame the legislatures that didn't think pre-processing of mail-in ballots was necessary or even valuable. EDIT: FWIW, the race is essentially over at this point and Biden has won. The voting percentages in the remaining states are not breaking in a way that suggests an upset is even possible, let alone likely.

So true. But every tribe shares a common thread.

I wonder if anyone has put together a venn diagram that shows what the overlap between those two groups looks like.

Are you a member of the tea party, by chance?

My guess is that you didn't follow politics much in 2008-2010

See you in two years for the mid-terms :)

Does that have anything to do with the thing I read today about a new law making ex-presidents immune to lawsuits in Russia?

I have to imagine that's determined at the state level. So Alaska might handle it differently than Florida.

Hope so

The office tends to prematurely age its inhabitants. To the question raised earlier, my money is that he doesn't survive his first term, let alone run for a second.

Yeah, Biden could lose NV and AZ and still win with PA.

Each state has their own rules and deadlines for mail-in and/or absentee ballots. The states that are taking a really long time are the states that either have terrible rules, generous deadlines, or some combination of both. You are correct, but still missing the point. The 70% will intentionally take themselves out of the game, which will be decided by the 30%.

No it wouldn't. The exact same process would play out, but with significantly fewer votes to count. Whoever got the plurality of the EC would be President and 70% of the electorate would get the warm satisfaction of knowing that the world went on without them.

Disregard. Thought that was a clip, not a livestream.

Frickin' Satan. Always with the antics.