The US Midterm Elections: 2022

that’s quite a post in response to a joking post with a link to satire! :crazy_face: :face_with_peeking_eye: :roll_eyes: :smiley: :sweat_smile:

I get tired of the Charlie Brown bullshit.

Anyway, might catch a bit more of Americas marathon election coverage later.

Are we? :thinking:

Or 5, or whatever.

Don’t think many countries around the world watching this shit show are thinking “hmm, that’s just how we should run elections” though.

It’s embarrassing it’s taking this long. Taiwan can hold a presidential election in a day.

The US used to be able to do it too, hence “election night”.

It also adds confidence because not enough time exists to start figuring out how many votes are needed to “win”. Like you say in Taiwan after voting stops, the result is known in a few hours and everyone goes to bed.

Some states need to take lessons from other states in terms of rules and technology, but I guess that is why we vote. If the people who live in those states keep voting for these folks to run their elections, then they are getting what they asked for.

If you wanna see something funny, watch Lindsey get all teary eyed as he whines about how the Dems were so cruel to Hershel. Freakin’ hilarious that the guy is so clueless about just how clueless Walker really is

Didn’t the Democrat call to defund the police, admire Fidel Castro, run over his wife’s foot, admire Farrakhan etc.?

I’d rather vote for Ho Chi Minh’s momma :joy: :laughing:

Most likely because Walker has told you he thinks she’s still alive. That’s if he even knows who HCM is to begin with.

It’s the mailed ballots postmarked on Election Day which need to be counted. Democratic voters tend to prefer that method which is why votes will swing from red to blue in the days after the polls close. Anything less would be voter suppression.

This is a totally ridiculous statement.

I totally agree!

Yeah you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Sometimes just repeating the party line is enough.

:roll_eyes: state rules vary, and even states strongly controlled by Republicans (like GA) may have dates after election day to receive ballots. Beyond that, there’s a curing period most (all? some?) states. And then in places like AZ, they process the mail ons manually, so is gonna be slower than places that use auto extractors. All that and races (in populated areas) have always taken a while to finalize, it’s just more of an issue with close.racea where you can’t call it earlier due.to a blow out.

It hasn’t alway been this slow. Just since Democrats discovered the merits of mail-in ballots for their cause. Now it’s a long, drawn-out process.

Right, and I saw an article today about the GOP needing to learn to bend a multitude of confusing interstate rules. That’s what the brains thought they should do. Not improve the system. Just fuck with it even more.

Democrats have fucked with ballot boxes for ages.

From cornpone LBJ and his Senate election fraud in the late 40s against Coke Stevenson to JFK and the Cook County shenanigans in the 1960 election.

Dirty machine politics, rum, and rebellion :laughing: Tammany lives.

Corrupt municipal political machines and effective interference: Tammany Hall, the Daley machine, the Curley machine, and so on. History repeats?

to get finalized counts, it has*.

*not literally “always,” but pretty much for anything resembling the current set of rules. which aren’t a result of democrats.