2020 Election MEGAthread

[douglas1999]

Originally Posted by peterpal [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Trump's gonna declare victory early and claim mail-in ballots are fraudulent. It's what his last weeks have been building up to with the seeding of mistrust in postal votes and pushing Amy Coney Barrett ASAP as a bonus.

Who gives a shit? Trump "declaring victory early" doesn't mean he magically gets to become the president again. Why is this such a broadly dispensed talking point? Biden might "declare victory early" also. Who cares.

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Who gives a shit? Trump "declaring victory early" doesn't mean he magically gets to become the president again. Why is this such a broadly dispensed talking point? Biden might "declare victory early" also. Who cares.

The confusion will start civil war lol maybe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] omg Im scaring myself.

Maybe it will be all dramatic like a to kill a mocking bird mistrial in the SC there will be gnashing of teeth and armed seizure of the senate bla bla dramatic tv movie plot etc etc

[douglas1999]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The confusion will start civil war lol maybe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] omg Im scaring myself.

Yeah it might, there's absolutely nothing you can do about either candidate declaring victory though. It's gonna be fine, I feel bad for people who live in highly concentrated urban areas because if violence does break out, it will be there no matter who wins. It's like when a major sports team wins or loses; people riot either way. I used to live in boston, and a guy I knew got run over by a car after the red sox *won*. If you're chilling out in the country or even most suburbs you're good to go.

[peterpal]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Who gives a shit? Trump "declaring victory early" doesn't mean he magically gets to become the president again.

Sorry, you forgot to read the complete sentence.

[douglas1999]

Originally Posted by peterpal [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sorry, you forgot to read the complete sentence.

No I read it. Mail in ballots are simply more prone to fraud, obviously. The chain of custody is much longer with mail in ballots, and this could favor either party, that's why they suck.

[feniin]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No I read it. Mail in ballots are simply more prone to fraud, obviously. The chain of custody is much longer with mail in ballots, and this could favor either party, that's why they suck.

been doing absentee voting for the last 20 years. have never had, nor heard of, any issues. It's a boogeyman like everything else that comes out of Trump's fat face.

[Woke Locc]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Who gives a shit? Trump "declaring victory early" doesn't mean he magically gets to become the president again. Why is this such a broadly dispensed talking point? Biden might "declare victory early" also. Who cares.

because the red team controls the court that decides it

[douglas1999]

Originally Posted by Woke Locc [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

because the red team controls the court that decides it

Conservative judges have voted liberal and vice versa many times. That's the whole point of the supreme court and the judiciary generally; you aren't supposed to vote rigidly along party lines or personal bias.

This is what caused OJ simpson to be declared innocent in the first trial; the personal biases of the jury.

[BlackBellamy]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Conservative judges have voted liberal and vice versa many times. That's the whole point of the supreme court and the judiciary generally; you aren't supposed to vote rigidly along party lines or personal bias.

This is what caused OJ simpson to be declared innocent in the first trial; the personal biases of the jury.

If you want to know how the court would rule, look to the past - the Supremes are big on precedent.

In Bush v Gore, the conservatives stopped the recount because they said that the Legislature of Florida said they intended all the Florida citizens to participate in the federal elections, and the votes have to be in by a certain date hard stop. With that date coming up, the Supreme Court bowed to the wish of the Florida lawmakers.

The liberals argued that the Florida Supreme Court should make that decision. If they wanted to mess with the recounts and miss the final federal vote tally date, that was up to the judges in Florida.

This is because conservatives are originalists, so they go back to the source, in that case the FL statutes. The liberal guys are activists so they wanted to FL judges to make the decisions.

In the present term, if there is any dispute regarding vote tallies and when or who can count what or when, look for the newly-solid conservative court to let the state legislature decide - so whatever the PA law is that's what's going to happen in PA.

[BlackBellamy]

Well, I did my part.

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