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So...these are the most likely final results

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A mess and a half :bear:

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3 minutes ago, KanyeWest said:

Yall are on ur fertile window I can tell

I mean if I have to put up with someone for 4 year I rather be someone who can TURN ME ON :vegas:

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Can we agree that the next obligation american citizens have is to riot to totally scrape this ellectoral system and replace with another one that gives the same weight to every single vote? start working on it please

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6 minutes ago, buzzkill said:

I like that trump acts like a 13 years old with a phone and internet access. 

You could have just said @CyanLights no need to sub-tweet him :billie:

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1 minute ago, hhennywise said:

oh so it's those little balls that can go a different color than the state they're in? Like the NE-2 biden got?

That's just because Nebraska and Maine split their electoral votes by congressional district.

A faithless elector is an elector that goes rogue.

Take Florida. Trump won Florida's popular vote which gives him 29 electoral votes. A faithless elector from here would defect to Biden (or a write in Republican) which means Trump only gets 28 of those votes.

If Biden just hits 270 then he has no room for a faithless elector in any state. That's why I'm still PRAYING for Georgia and Pennsylvania to turn around with these absentee and urban ballots.

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9 minutes ago, hhennywise said:

please explain faithless electors to us foreigners

it's new information every minute, jesus

Vote counts you see are electoral votes. So states are choosing electors(actual people who are members of electoral college) to vote for the president. 

Overwhelming majority of electors vote what people choose but there are usually 3-5 electors out of 538 - this has never been the issue because margins were never so tight but if election ends as-is Biden will have 270, Trump will have 268 electoral votes (270 needed to win), hence Biden cannot afford to have any of his electors vote otherwise - if elector votes differently than what they state voted for, they are called a “faithless elector”. 
 

System was established so that common people wouldn’t be allowed to elect a tyrant with popular support - ie. So that electoral college could vote otherwise and overrule...

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1 minute ago, Jill said:

So...these are the most likely final results

WN94k.png

A mess and a half :bear:

HOW CAN WE RESSUCITATE RUTH BADER GINSBURG? :messga:

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1 minute ago, Jill said:

So...these are the most likely final results

WN94k.png

A mess and a half :bear:

wow what a mess

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1 minute ago, Kimmo said:

I mean if I have to put up with someone for 4 year I rather be someone who can TURN ME ON :vegas:

Hes not exactly hot now tho once he hit his thirties idk what happened but he didnt age well :interestinga:

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PA was +11 Trump all last night, now it’s down to +8 Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-pennsylvania-president.html

(Open in incognito if you’re not a NYT subscriber)

(Never mind, it’s +8, was +11 earlier this morning, so fingers crossed PA will deliver)

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7 minutes ago, Jill said:

More importantly, no Senate means more power to the GOP to block the decisions of the House+President. Horrible

There's always 2022 :yennefer:

I can't wait to vote against Rubio tbh. I hope the Dems put up someone good.

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Just now, hhennywise said:

Can we agree that the next obligation american citizens have is to riot to totally scrape this ellectoral system and replace with another one that gives the same weight to every single vote? start working on it please

There's already work to do just that without a constitutional amendment. States can pass a law that would elect their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote no matter how their state votes. It doesn't go into effect until more than 270 electoral votes worth of states enact it, but once it's crossed that thresh-hold it will kick in and votes will end up being 1 to 1.

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