5.6 Million early vote ballots already cast
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Anonymous
| are you worried about the polls? do you think they are real ? |
Anonymous
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Illegitimate.
It's an illegitimate election. OK? And everybody knows it. You've got ballots. Millions of ballots. Ever seen a ballot fly? Ever seen a ballot sign its own name? But that's exactly what's happening And it's a disgrace. |
Anonymous
| Gah! Why does Maryland start their early voting so late? |
Anonymous
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"What we've seen in Virginia and elsewhere is just a dramatic uptick in votes for people who we would think would be, frankly, on the Democratic side, and that just is a suggestion of energy."
https://www.axios.com/tim-kaine-democratic-early-voting-axios-news-shaper-eb39aa24-cee4-4349-b799-75de9a15a057.html |
Anonymous
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We live in Michigan and are going to vote Election Day.
Our disabled son is using an absentee ballot we will all deliver in person. |
Anonymous
Total votes in the Presidential election in 2016 were 128,838,342. So almost 6 1/2 percent of the total votes last time are already in, 3 1/2 weeks before the election. |
Anonymous
What is your reason for waiting until Election Day? Not asking angrily or anything - but curious why you wouldn't avail yourself of an earlier opportunity. I literally mailed back my ballot the day I got it, I was so excited and eager to vote this year. Are you not actually that enthusiastic about voting? |
Anonymous
Most of them were accurate last time. Why wouldn’t they be this time? If they’re as wrong as they were last time, Biden will get 319 EV. |
Anonymous
NP. Because in person votes are easier to count and Trump's campaign is planning on questioning the authenticity of any vote not done in person. |
Anonymous
Can you vote early in person? Can you deliver your son’s ballot early? |
Anonymous
That makes sense! Thank you! |
Anonymous
| Why aren’t ballots counted as they are received, rather than waiting until Election Day and having to tally millions of ballots? Just seems like it would save time to keep a running tally. |
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5.6? wow
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Anonymous
It varies by state and even within states. In VA, if a county uses a machine to count, the ballots can be processed (but not tabulated) as they come in. If a county does not use a machine, but only counts by hand (smaller counties might not normally have many absentee ballots), then they have to wait until 3 pm on election day to start counting. This makes sense because you don't want either party to know whether they are down and thus able to round up more votes before the polls close. Human counting would necessarily give some people intel about who is leading. For machine counting, you don't know the count until after the polls close and you push the buttons for tabulating what has been scanned over the prior days/weeks. Other states do not allow for scanning until the day of election....so there will be delays. Some people want to capitalize on that delay and claim that it shows a bungled election. Actually, it shows the process as designed. |
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