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U.S. Presidential Election


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3 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Biden could end up with over 300 electoral college votes, which would be a pretty good margin in the end.

Looks like it will end up being 306-232, ironically the exact same margin Trump won by in 2016 (well he won 304-227, because there were 7 faithless electors who didn’t vote for the same candidate they were supposed to) 

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Just now, crazyfool1 said:

A lesson for us ... or Labour ...? Do we make voting easier ? 

Well we don’t make it harder that’s for sure. The Torys do make noises about having voter ID etc from time to time, disadvantaging people without passports and driving licenses (more than you’d think, and they tend to be poorer).

Id want votes at the weekend. That would push turnout up rather than having it on Thursday.

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2 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

Looks like it will end up being 306-232, ironically the exact same margin Trump won by in 2016 (well he won 304-227, because there were 7 faithless electors who didn’t vote for the same candidate they were supposed to) 

Is this a real thing - the actual electors can just go against the whole state's decision?? If his is close - could someone do that to change the result?

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1 minute ago, Gingerfish79 said:

Its great news, but I don't think it will be called anytime soon. Maybe not until next week. Pennsylvania likely to go to the supreme court, Georgia is so close I cant believe there wont be a recount and Nevada and Arizona have clearly run out of AAAs in the casio's.

If PA gets to at least 80k there won’t be a recount there which means there’s no point recounting GA. 

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2 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

If PA gets to at least 80k there won’t be a recount there which means there’s no point recounting GA. 

They'll just want to be super careful so not to make any mistakes.

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4 minutes ago, phimill said:

Is this a real thing - the actual electors can just go against the whole state's decision?? If his is close - could someone do that to change the result?

Technically yes, but highly unlikely because:

 

1) Most states will fine electors if they do this

2) The winning party gets to nominate the electors, e.g. since Biden won California, the Democrats will choose 55 senior party officials to act as the electors, so its unlikely they would break rank

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector

 

In 2016 there were 7 faithless electors. Five electors who were supposed to vote for Clinton did not do so (one voted for Bernie Sanders, one for Faith Spotted Eagle and three for Colin Powell). Two electors who were supposed to vote for Trump actually voted for John Kasich and Rand Paul respectively. 

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Just now, jparx said:

I'm surprised PA has called though, in all seriousness. Still a lot to come in. He's obviously won, but I'm not sure it should be called yet.

They haven't called yet, not according to some news sources.

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