solarbird: I wrote this on Twitter. Transcription below. Okay. Right about this, right about now, is
solarbird: I wrote this on Twitter. Transcription below. Okay. Right about this, right about now, is probably the peak Trump II map. It would’ve been nicer if I’d caught it while Maine was still showing up as red, but I didn’t. What does that mean? It means that multiple Trump-leaning states out east haven’t started counting mail-in votes yet, mostly because they have Republican legislatures who moved not to allow it. Let’s take Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania has a pretty big red tilt right now. That’s what Republicans want you to see going to bed tonight. “They won.” Except 2.2 million votes haven’t been counted yet, like, _at all_. The mail-in votes. Because Pennsylvania is a party-registration state, where you register with a party to vote in primary elections, we know whose ballots they are, more or less. And two thirds of them are registered as Democrats. It’s not like the normal situation where you’ve got geographic lag, and yeah, results will shift a bit based on city/suburb/county/etc - you have a specifically _political_ lag. A division by _party_. Republicans voting on the day of, and being counted first; Democrats voting early, and being counted last. That’s on purpose. And the _purpose_ is to give Trump an artificial lead so he can move in with his lawyers - _as he’s publicly promised to do_ - and stop vote counting. _Be ready for this_. They _will_ try to stop vote counting while they have a _purely artificial lead_. A purely artificial _map_, that looks great for Trump. But it’s not. It’s a map made out of vote counting where Republicans are counted _first_. And that’s not how elections are supposed to work. It’s quite possible that civil action will be needed to get all the votes to be counted. But if that’s what’s needed, _get out there and do it_. This election isn’t over until all the votes are counted. Which is why the Republicans will do whatever is possible to stop votes from being counted any further, and as soon as possible. 2000 in Florida all over again, just more, and bigger. Are you ready? Get ready. -- source link
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