Election 2018 Open Thread v2 - Mia, Mimi, Gil, and T.J.

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It seems gods want to make Young Kim suffer. With the new San Bernardino results her lead drops to 48 votes! I mean, this is like cutting a cat's tale into increasingly thin salami slices.

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I mean, this is the one reason I like voting by mail: it makes elections last longer

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As long as we have a two party system, ceding the Republican Party to racism means racism will never be effectively neutered in our society.

I mean, it would be nice if the Grand Anglo White Party were not racist, but GAWP being what it is, what can one do?

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Nah, we lost NC 9th fair and square, congrats to rep-elect Mark Harris.

Based on what? That you don't want to get your hopes up? That you want to appear moderate and reasonable to both sides?

Because the deficit is too large to make up especially with something like Bladen County, and McCready conceded, and the Bladen county certified their results. I trust the election systems and processes in this country, including those places where it is run by republicans. There is hardly any fraud, they do their jobs with integrity.

If you trust the election systems and processes in this country, then you should probably trust the fact that the NCSBE decided not to certify it so far and is investigating to make sure they get it right, one way or the other.

So you are contradicting yourself.

What it really is is you just don't want to get your hopes up.

I trust Bladen County and their system, which is the election system in question.

NCSBE is as much part of the system.

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If Ryan is insinuating something about any sort of fraud, he's totally out line.

But CA really does need to find a better way to count their ballots.  If the absentee ballots need to be received by the Friday after the election, they should be counted by the Friday after the election, not three weeks later.  

Most states count their votes the day they are cast, CA should be able to do this as well.  I could literally count all of the absentee ballots in one of these congressional races by myself by hand in a fraction of the time that they process them.

I agree, CA system is too slow. However, I doubt you would be able yourself to count 150,000 votes by hand in reasonable time I was in charge of vote counting this year in my precinct in the Mexican election. We had under 500 registered voters, and under 400 showed up (if my memory serves me right, there were 374 voters in total). There were 6 races, but there  were 7 of us on the commission, so 4 of us were counting the three federal races, just over 1000 extremely simple ballots in total. We were all well-educated people (it is a wealthy precinct, near a bunch of universities). We did not have to check any signatures or the like: everybody had voted with paper ballots and all ballots were in the ballot box. The voting was over at 6 PM sharp (closed the doors myself on the clock, there was nobody in the line). The counting process, with all the safeguards and mandatory recounts, took us till around 10 PM, after which we were filling out forms till past midnight, after which I still had to deliver everything to the district - I was home around 3 AM. Properly done vote counting takes time.