2020 electoral college voting **live commentary thread**

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

If you wanted a good laugh...

https://twitter.com/anonpatriotq/status/1338503459696488448?s=21

brb getting together eleven of my friends and family to sign a paper casting "electoral votes" for Neo-Queen Serenity and mail it to Pence and Pelosi

[Mike88]

Current tally:

22 Trump/Pence
  7 Biden/Harris

[T0rM3nTeD]

New Hampshire is in as well. Biden 4 / Harris 4

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/TroyKinsey/status/1338503718715723778

This shouldn't affect the count.  There is usually a pool of alternate electors from each state party available to step in for such emergencies.

[7,052,770]

Current tally:

22 Trump/Pence
  7 Biden/Harris

The chances of Biden winning with a deficit like that are a quadrillion to one!!

[T0rM3nTeD]

Based on the votes in so far (Trump 22, Biden 7) the final vote count will obviously be 408-130 in a Trump landslide

[GeorgiaModerate]

Current tally:

22 Trump/Pence
  7 Biden/Harris

The chances of Biden winning with a deficit like that are a quadrillion to one!!

The Atlanta Falcons would like a word.

[Mike88]

Next states to start voting at the top of the hour:

Arkansas
Illinois
Mississippi
Oklahoma
South Carolina

[pbrower2a]

Trump up 22-7 so far... the easy and common estimate for pi, the ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle if one tries to avoid irrational numbers.

[Mike88]

Florida votes only at 2PM and Vermont is missing.

[pbrower2a]

Correction made.

[The Mikado]

If you wanted a good laugh...

https://twitter.com/anonpatriotq/status/1338503459696488448?s=21

brb getting together eleven of my friends and family to sign a paper casting "electoral votes" for Neo-Queen Serenity and mail it to Pence and Pelosi

I dunno, Beryl will be tough to beat.

[Gass3268]

Mississippi's 6 are in for Trump/Pence.

[pbrower2a]

That's 4-1 for Trump so far... about a 405-132 landslide.

[Granite City]

Biden takes Illinois 20-0

[MillennialModerate]

Call me irrational or paranoid but I won’t be comfortable till all the Biden states without compelling laws are IN

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Call me irrational or paranoid but I won’t be comfortable till all the Biden states without compelling laws are IN

I share the anxiety, although I do think it's irrational at this point. Does hearing that help at all?

[Granite City]

Arkansas: 6-0 Trump
Oklahoma: 7-0 Trump

41-27 by my count

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Looks like Biden will take the lead at noon when the first few swing states vote.

[Crumpets]

Can I just say I've followed politics pretty closely since around 2007 and this is the first time I learned the Electoral College doesn't all just gather at the US Capitol and cast their votes together?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Can I just say I've followed politics pretty closely since around 2007 and this is the first time I learned the Electoral College doesn't all just gather at the US Capitol and cast their votes together?

tbf this is the first time the actual EC process has been properly relevant in many decades (Hamilton-inspired fever dreams in 2016 aside).

[Granite City]

9-0 for Trump in South Carolina

[Gass3268]

Sigh...

https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1338522299360800771?s=20

[Tender Branson]

What is the actual process on January 6th, when Pence counts the votes in a joint session ?

Assuming a 52-48 GOP Senate and a 222-213 DEM House.

I know there can be objections, but is it actually Pence who decides what is counted and what not, or do the members of Congress also have an influence ?

Can they veto Pence if he picks the alternative Trump electors to be counted instead of the actual electors for Biden ?

[Tender Branson]

Anyway, the Electoral College needs to be nuked.