Posted on 11/08/2022 7:40:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In a throwback to 2020, ABC News reports that a “red mirage” could make it look like Republicans are winning big on the night, but that a full vote count could take “weeks.”
The legacy news outlet has published an article titled ‘Early election night results might not indicate final tallies (and why that’s OK)’.
The piece explains how Republicans may “appear to be leading their Democratic opponents, even by large margins” in federal and statewide races, but that their leads “will dwindle, or crumble completely” after “dumps” of mail-in and absentee ballots are counted after election day, which could take “weeks”.
Why America can’t count all the votes on the night, as is done in countless other developed countries, isn’t explained.
“This phenomenon was popularized as the “red mirage” or the “blue shift” after the 2020 presidential election, when former President Donald Trump took a deceptive lead in several competitive states on Election Day due to delays in counting of Democrats’ mail-in ballots — their preferred method of voting due to the COVID-19 pandemic — only to eventually dissipate when the entire reserve of votes was totaled,” states the report.
However, the explanation that COVID-19 caused so many Democrats to use mail-in ballots on 2020 is also not a factor now given that all restrictions have been lifted and COVID is barely even a news story at this point.
A "red mirage," or an artificial GOP vote lead, will likely reoccur Tuesday. https://t.co/tagIbNJscC — ABC News (@ABC) November 7, 2022
“The red wave nearly every pollster is predicting is actually just a “mirage” ready to be corrected through “election fortification” and “perceived” late night ballot dumps,” commented Chris Menahan.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also said yesterday that the vote count may take “days” to be sorted out, asserting, “That’s how this is supposed to work,” despite no such narrative being in place when Democrats performed well in the 2018 mid-terms.
Jean-Pierre: "We may not know all the winners of elections for a few days. It takes time to count all legitimate ballots in a legal and orderly manner. That's how this is supposed to work." pic.twitter.com/UPPpMjVCNK — Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 7, 2022
Delaying the election result will almost certainly lead to a repeat of the chaos of 2020, and prompt more claims by Republicans of vote fraud and stolen elections.
Polls show that around 61 per cent of Republicans think Biden didn’t win legitimately in 2020, while nearly a third of Americans in total think Biden won thanks to voter fraud.
A recent Pew survey also found that a fairly slim majority of 56 per cent of Republicans think “the midterm elections in the U.S. will be administered very or somewhat well, with just 11% saying they will be run very well.”
According to the latest Washington Post forecast, Republicans are set to easily regain control of the House and will also flip the Senate, where they only need to gain one seat to claim victory.
Washington Post: @henryolsenEPPC 2022 Midterms Forecast
SENATE
Republicans — 54
Democrats — 46
✅ GOP Pick Ups: AZ, GA, NV and NH
HOUSE
Republicans — 246
Democrats — 189https://t.co/zoDfjbqZg7 pic.twitter.com/DEgwWtOdmf — InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) November 7, 2022
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How is this acceptable?
“Could” means will. Will means dems win. Wishful thinking is getting us nowhere. Article after article describes the “red wave”. These articles are written by very smart people who understand what happened 2 years ago. I don’t understand.
The voting officials in the Central African Republic are laughing.
this is either A) foreknowledge of another big steal B) the media just egging on more election denial in an attempt to discredit conservatives or C) just the practical side of their over-reliance on mail-in voting and vote-harvesting - they know there will be a lag in counting some of their votes
One question: how could the massive dumps of mailed and absentee ballots post-election all favor the Democrat nominees?
Defies logic. Statistically impossible. If they pull off another steal, this time nationwide, our Republic is finished. Welcome Big Brother.
Anyone else wonder, how it is, that back in the days of paper ballots, before computers, before the internet, before cellular phones, election results were known promptly?
But now with all this modern technology, election results take days or even weeks to be known???
Gee
Almost as if they
KNEW
Machines all across the country would suddenly
Quit
Working.
Spit
Back in those days to which you refer, everyone (except overseas military and diplomatic personnel) voted on the same day, the day of the election.
Yeah it’s called stealing no one stopped them before why stop now
You mean it will take weeks to steal the election???
The author's choice of language reveals they really know it's fraudulent. You don't have a "reserve" of votes in a normal election. A "reserve" of votes means that you have votes just sitting somewhere waiting to be counted if you need them to win the election.
We are the only country in the world that conducts its election so.
no leaving the ballots unwatched this time...
eyes on ballotboxes till every last vote is counted
"They" say that Democrat voters are more likely to use mailed in and absentee voting ballots, so when those are counted, the vast majority of them go to the Democrat candidates.
This is reason enough alone to do away with mail-in ballots in all but the most extreme situations; e.g., military, disabled or elderly in poor health. Everyone else, get your @sses to the polls, or don't vote.
The word has gone out on all the propaganda outlets. The phrase to endlessly repeat for the next month is “Red Mirage”, I repeat “Red Mirage”. Please be sure the phrase of the day is repeated once every 10 minutes until it becomes a part of the lexicon.
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