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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[oilcan]

LMAO

And physics-defying possibly.

[barton]

Imagine the trajectory if the postal service has been enabled to do its job properly.   

To do list,  Joe:

Rejoin Paris Accord
Save Tongass rainforest
Rehire all the competent people in federal offices
Fire Louis DeJoy...

[facilitatorn]

To do list, vast right wing conspiracy:

Be as obnoxiously stupid and ugly as humanly possible while the people of Georgia watch and decide exactly how much influence they want to let you have in governing their affairs.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Considering all the stress and drama of this year’s presidential race, it may be difficult to view the 2020 election as a success. Close elections in polarized societies place a great strain on democracy. After all, no matter who eventually wins, nearly half the country will be disappointed, perhaps even outraged, by the result. But from the perspective of election administration, the past week has been a surprising success.

The smooth administration of the 2020 election is all the more impressive given the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic. Earlier this year, we saw meltdowns in election administration in the presidential primaries. During the Wisconsin primary, Milwaukee closed 97% of its polling places. New York City ended up disqualifying 20% of its primary absentee ballots over problems with postmarks, signatures and mail processing. The possibility that there would be too few polling places, supply-chain disruptions for voting equipment and poll-worker shortages loomed over the general election.

No major failure of election administration cast the legitimacy of the outcome into question.
But none of it materialized in the early voting period or on Election Day itself. The election wasn’t perfect; in some places, there were unacceptably long lines, voting machine outages and problems with the electronic “poll books” used to check in voters. Some underserved communities and communities of color struggled with closed or understaffed polling places. Still, as of now, we know of no major failure of election administration that cast the legitimacy of the outcome into question.

One key mark of the election’s success was its record turnout. Millions of ballots remain to be counted, but the number of people who voted—as a percentage of eligible voters—was greater than it has been since 1900. More than 100 million Americans cast ballots early—either through the mail or in person—and 50 million more votes will be counted before the election is over.

On Election Day, we saw fewer problems than in any recent election. Poll workers, many of them serving for the first time, braved the pandemic and showed up in large numbers, and polling places were rarely crowded.

Because a mounting number of court proceedings are now focusing on mail ballots, it will be tempting to say, when the counting ends, that mail ballots were this election’s distinctive problem. Just as 2000 had its hanging chads, some will argue, 2020 had its absentee ballots. Indeed, the distinct challenges of mail ballots—ranging from rejections due to missing signatures to uncorrected ballot mistakes—may yet play a role in the recounts that are likely to be on the way.

Nonetheless, the main story about mail ballots is very positive, once separated from the drama of postelection brawling. Between 80 and 90 million mail and absentee ballots were mailed to voters in the past few months—far more than in 2016. Some experts had worried that the share of rejected ballots would go up this year because first-time voters by mail would be prone to mistakes. Instead, the preliminary evidence suggests that the share of rejected ballots was actually lower than in 2016.

The concern about U.S. Postal Service delays amid the pandemic took a political turn this summer when Democrats charged that service changes initiated by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy—appointed by President Trump, who has denounced widespread voting by mail—were politically motivated. The revelation earlier this week that the USPS couldn’t account for 300,000 mail ballots that had received a bar code when they entered the mail stream stoked speculation that the Postal Service was refusing to expedite the delivery of absentee ballots on Election Day, as promised. The suspicion is understandable, but no evidence of political manipulation has yet emerged. The ballots probably hadn’t been scanned upon delivery precisely because they were being expedited.

Yet the USPS also balked at a federal judge’s order to institute “sweeps” of postal facilities in battleground areas on Election Day, claiming that it would be impossible to comply. Postal Service data now shows that at least 150,000 ballots probably only got to election officials on Wednesday, leaving many Americans’ votes out of some state counts. When such events occur, citizens will naturally wonder whether partisan administrative officers are out to abscond with their ballots.

The public must have more confidence that the speed of election mail won’t fall prey to political whims.
Something must be done to give the public more confidence that the speed of election mail won’t fall prey to the political whims of a given administration. Both parties have an interest in a Postal Service that gives priority to election mail and removes the risk that ballots will arrive late.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-2020-election-meltdown-that-didnt-happen-even-amid-the-covid-pandemic-11604667974

Wow! What left-wing conspirator newspaper is printing this?


The Wall Street Journal, of course.

[Hamilton Samuels]

“Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history.”

What John McCain said in his concession speech to Barack Obama.

[bambu.]

Imagine the trajectory if the postal service has been enabled to do its job properly.   

To do list,  Joe:

Rejoin Paris Accord
Save Tongass rainforest
Rehire all the competent people in federal offices
Fire Louis DeJoy...

Free Britney.

[bambu.]

http://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/the-sickness-of-republicans-and-conservatism

"conservatism" --> they only things they want to preserve are their power and control over lesser beings like women and Blacks.

More fantasy.

To me, Laura Bush did not appear to be treated as a "lesser being" or downtrodden.

Nor does "Jenny from the nurses'" Morrison.

[facilitatorn]

The outstanding nationwide, not including the 5 or six states still plowing through announced numbers, fall into 3 main batches

Provisional Ballots

Expat

Overseas military

Among the troops trump hasn’t helped himself, but he might get parity.

Expat is negligible but shifts blue

Provisional ballots tend to in balance cure 25-30% of typical GOP disenfranchisement efforts.

For those seats called GOP on a knife edge, Biden still has gravity. When you float on bullshit, gravity sucks you down.

[facilitatorn]

http://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/the-sickness-of-republicans-and-conservatism

"conservatism" --> they only things they want to preserve are their power and control over lesser beings like women and Blacks.

To me, Laura Bush did not appear to be lesser or downtrodden.

Nor does "Jenny from the nurses'" Morrison.

I’m related to enough Australians through a cousin in law type arrangement to infer expression and intonation to your text. This makes me inclined to infer what might be read as innocent openness from you, given the smarmy, piggish, “naughty” pitch adopted by those of lowest repute in your culture, and makes you sound sound much more like just the kind of asshole who’d support the creatures and the causes that you get behind.

Uncle Stan and drunk Mel Gibson are my Rosetta Stones.

[facilitatorn]

“Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history.”

What John McCain said in his concession speech to Barack Obama.

[bambu.]

http://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/the-sickness-of-republicans-and-conservatism

"conservatism" --> they only things they want to preserve are their power and control over lesser beings like women and Blacks.

To me, Laura Bush did not appear to be lesser or downtrodden.

Nor does "Jenny from the nurses'" Morrison.

I’m related to enough Australians through a cousin in law type arrangement to infer expression and intonation to your text. This makes me inclined to infer what might be read as innocent openness from you, given the smarmy, piggish, “naughty” pitch adopted by those of lowest repute in your culture, and makes you sound sound much more like just the kind of asshole who’d support the creatures and the causes that you get behind.

Uncle Stan and drunk Mel Gibson are my Rosetta Stones.

Nothing wrong, and everything right, with "Conservatism".
However in America Conservatism needs a reformation.

Not everyone in America voted for Biden and Co.

[bambu.]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/miranda-devine-not-even-barack-obama-can-save-joe-biden-on-the-charisma-front/news-story/f79c726ae70011e425ccd1c8c2434340

It is hard to think of a worse candidate in history than Joe Biden - it is painful to watch the former Vice President stumble and bumble to the end, writes Miranda Devine.
When this election is over, the books revealing what went on backstage will be illuminating.

But the truth is there for anyone with eyes to see.
Take Biden’s car rally in Flint, Michigan on Saturday, with a star-power assist from Barack Obama.

Awkward barely covers it.
Obama, effortlessly cool, gave a warmup speech to the assembled cars before ramping up to a dramatic introduction: “My friend, the next president of the United States of America: Joe Biden!”

Moments ticked by, but there was no sign of the candidate.
“Joe Biden!” Obama repeated, a little less confidently. But still no show.

Obama tried a third time: “Joe Biden!”

Biden at last emerged from a nearby building and did a pantomime slow jog to the stage.

The worst part came later.

After Biden had shouted his way through a short teleprompter speech, Obama came back onstage, perhaps to escort him off, because Biden did not seem to know where he was.

Obama mimed an elbow pump with his former VP to signal they should leave the stage and then quietly whispered to him, after which it dawned on Biden he’d forgotten his mask, not for the first time. When your entire campaign is about mask-shaming Trump supporters, it’s not a forgivable lapse.

Poor Biden looked like a chastened schoolboy as he fumbled through his folder and all his pockets looking for that pesky piece of cloth.

He walked back to the lectern and searched, to no avail, before fumbling through his pockets again. Finally, he found the mask in his left trouser pocket, held it aloft sheepishly at Obama, and placed it on his face.

But then he paused and looked in seeming confusion at the microphone lying on the lectern where he’d left it. He picked it up and held it briefly to his masked face before laying it down again and rejoining Obama.

Whatever emotions were going through Obama’s mind at that point he kept under wraps, but he did slow down and look back solicitously as he shepherded Biden down the stairs and away from prying eyes.

In other words, he was treating the man who would be president like an invalid.
Really, it was sad.

"God Bless Australia" said Obama standing in the Australian parliament.

[kidcarter8]

Heads on pikes

Whoa.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/05/tech/steve-bannon-twitter-permanent-suspension/index.html

[barton]

The suspicion is understandable, but no evidence of political manipulation has yet emerged...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-2020-election-meltdown-that-didnt-happen-even-amid-the-covid-pandemic-11604667974

Wow! What left-wing conspirator newspaper is printing this?

The Wall Street Journal, of course.

I found much to like in the editorial,  but have doubts about the bit I excerpted.  Several actions of DeJoy strongly indicate a persistent pattern of manipulation and attempts at sabotage of the slowing-it-down kind.    All the mail sorter machines need to be brought back online,  and DeJoy fed into one of them.   Use the oldest rustiest one,  no need to waste a newer machine.   

[barton]

Heads on pikes

Whoa.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/05/tech/steve-bannon-twitter-permanent-suspension/index.html

Many angry at those comments, a response I'll call Pikes Pique. 

Just imagine if the POTUS were to go about making irresponsible, nasty and inciteful comments like that!   Oh,  wait...then GOP officials would fall all over themselves to tell us that it was just a harmless joke from a dude who likes to riff and improvise.