TheScarf Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Extra Secret Service agents have been deployed to Delaware (where Biden is) in anticipation for him winning. It's to mirror what the POTUS gets while in office. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 50 minutes ago, craigkillie said: The way it is done there seems fairer - essentially the vote is cast when it is sent, not when it arrives. Depositing it into your postbox is basically the same as depositing it into a polling box at a polling station - it's someone else's responsibility to ensure that it arrives at the count in a reasonable amount of time, that's not something you have any control over. Forcing them to arrive by a certain date leaves you beholden to other circumstances - what if there was a postal strike in the days leading up to the election and no mail was being delivered? Our system where the vote has to arrive by a certain date is much less fair. For the 2015 GE, I was living in Australia but still eligible to vote. I applied for a postal vote in plenty of time, but it didn't arrive until the day before the deadline for it being received back in the UK, thus rendering it impossible for me to get it there in time. Under our system, I was disenfranchised, whereas under the US system I'd have been able to send it that day and it would still have counted. There are logistical reasons why the UK option might be better in terms of getting a timely result, but it's definitely not fairer. My sister was over here for the New Zealand election, she was able to vote online by a secure download, signing and marking the ballot paper, scanning and returning it electronically. Apparently most people vote online in Estonia, hasn't increased participation though which is a bit surprising. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forest_Fifer Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Time for a Ben Garrison update! Fucking hell, that comment section... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 They must have employed the slowest counters they could find in these states, just sums up how much of a shambles the best country in the world really is, the shopping trolley collectors of the western world. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 18 minutes ago, Busta Nut said: What's with the counting? where best for up to date info? Twitter style updates from CNN here - https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-biden-election-results-11-06-20/index.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 2 hours ago, Henderson to deliver ..... said: Auntie Marianne knocking it out the park here. I’m in love. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Nothing much seems to have been counted in North Carolina for 2 days. Trump's 76,737 votes ahead, and it was trending red before the last count, but there are only mail in ballots left with 5% left to count, which tend in other states to go Biden's way. Maybe throwing away profits but got 15/2 with Bet365, now down to 5/1. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Be funny as f**k if Melania divorces him today. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP_MFC Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Must be about time for a KEY RACE ALERT 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Starko Rover Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Trump Supporters 2016Build a wall stop all the immigrants. Trump Supporters 2020I’m going to live in Mexico. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob in Denny Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, MP_MFC said: Must be about time for a KEY RACE ALERT There's six out front in the breakaway and the red jersey group is 4 mins 15 seconds behind... Just in case It is The Vuelta you mean I know I couldn't resist.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speckled tangerine Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 CNN there saying Trump has "no plans to concede no matter what". It really does look like he'll be turned out at gunpoint by the security services. It's a pity Bruno Ganz is dead. He played his last delusional despot role so well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagyar 2nd Tier Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Biden leads in Pennsylvania 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP_MFC Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Must be about time for a KEY RACE ALERT Boom 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Jesus wept - Quote Trump’s allies have grown concerned that someone is going to have to reckon with the President that his time in office is potentially coming to an end, though they have not decided who should be the one to do it. There has been talk of potentially Jared Kushner or Ivanka Trump doing so, sources said. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambomo Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Excellent 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwullie Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 And Joseph takes the league in PA. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambomo Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Biden must have got nearly all of those recent votes in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 8 minutes ago, NewBornBairn said: Be funny as f**k if Melania divorces him today. She'll probably be waiting to cash in when he eventually croaks. Doubt the prenup will have been too generous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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