Posted on 11/09/2016 6:23:19 AM PST by nikos1121
Our best guess is that Donald J. Trump is on track to win in Michigan.
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Does it really matter? Really Cat, this is smacking of Concern Trollism. Trump won, there is no path to any flipping of the result of Trump being president. I know for posterity we'd like to see Michigan as a Trump Red State but really who cares, the blue wall was broken, smashed. Hillary was outflanked.
I had to stay off FR last night, this place was a nightmare of Concern Trolls, negative nellies and well..morons. Not saying you were one. But if I heard..."Oh it's not beyond the margin of fraud" one more time I was going to blow my brains out. FreeRepublic was a big fail last night, the Concern Trolls consumed all the air. If we want to concoct some fantasy scheme that Hillary could pull a Al Gore and un-concede, fine you guys can go down that rabbit hole. Accept success Concern Trolls, and let go of your negativity for one damn day
When I looked at county by county (CNN) I spotted the same one Washtenaw, but it was saying only about 80% counted, with Clinton getting 67% so far. That means she is trending to pick up about 30K votes, enough to put her over the top.
I don’t really know how to calculate these things so I asked LS. Waiting to hear what he thinks.
I am really disappointed at the numbers in Texas. Who are these people that voted for her? Ohio had higher margin of victory than Texas.
Literally Middle America.
Donald hit America’s heart. Its skin, that is another question.
I too found CNN to be far and away the best at reporting results and King was outstanding. He was easily the best on the air last night.
“Why can’t Michigan count the votes?”
Because they can’t count past 100.
AFAIK, the whole state is on the same system that came into being after the 2000 Presidential recount in Florida caused the whole country to examine what voting methods were in use.
We use a hard paper ballot that the voter must fill in the missing space and create a heavy black line that finishes out the arrow that is pointing to their choice.
(name A) <—... -—
(name B) <—... -—
This week the ballot was longer than legal paper size, and had some races and issues on the back as well. When finished, the voter has his/her ballot in a privacy sleeve that he/she uses to feed it into the scanner. It is recorded in the scanner system in real time. If there is a problem with a ballot, I think the scanner is supposed to display an error message so the voter can fix his/her error. I think if a ballot is spoiled—voting for more candidates than seats available in an office, for example—the scanner is supposed to catch that so the voter can have the initial paper ballot voided and be given a new copy to fix the error in his/her vote.
After the polls close, it should not take much time for the poll workers to record the machine’s accumulated total for each race. The paper ballots are still available for documentation should there be a recount or mechanical/electronic problems.
I’m on the west side (my name refers to the left coast of the lower peninsula), so I can’t speak for how they are doing it in Wayne County.
AFAIK, the whole state is on the same system that came into being after the 2000 Presidential recount in Florida caused the whole country to examine what voting methods were in use.
We use a hard paper ballot that the voter must fill in the missing space and create a heavy black line that finishes out the arrow that is pointing to their choice.
(name A) <—... -—
(name B) <—... -—
This week the ballot was longer than legal paper size, and had some races and issues on the back as well. When finished, the voter has his/her ballot in a privacy sleeve that he/she uses to feed it into the scanner. It is recorded in the scanner system in real time. If there is a problem with a ballot, I think the scanner is supposed to display an error message so the voter can fix his/her error. I think if a ballot is spoiled—voting for more candidates than seats available in an office, for example—the scanner is supposed to catch that so the voter can have the initial paper ballot voided and be given a new copy to fix the error in his/her vote.
After the polls close, it should not take much time for the poll workers to record the machine’s accumulated total for each race. The paper ballots are still available for documentation should there be a recount or mechanical/electronic problems.
I’m on the west side (my name refers to the left coast of the lower peninsula), so I can’t speak for how they are doing it in Wayne County.
I am really disappointed at the numbers in Texas. Who are these people that voted for her? Ohio had higher margin of victory than Texas.
I live in Texas and I think Hispanics came out to vote against Trump. Tons of Illegals here with lots of legal voting family members (cousins..etc.).
Also I think some of the Cruz voters stayed home.
I am really disappointed at the numbers in Texas. Who are these people that voted for her? Ohio had higher margin of victory than Texas.
I live in Texas and I think Hispanics came out to vote against Trump. Tons of Illegals here with lots of legal voting family members (cousins..etc.).
Also I think some of the Cruz voters stayed home.
When Trump builds the wall and enforces the immigration laws hopefully this will stem the flow into Texas and protect Texas from being over-run like California.
Yep. Texas gave Trump the same percent margin as Iowa gave Trump! Texas is a swing state now, if Iowa is. The Trump presidency really is traditional America’s last chance. No exaggeration whatsoever.
It is all the carpetbaggers and Messycans. Obamao has ruined the economies in northern states and they have been infiltrating Texas for years. If you go to any of the ‘burbs around the major cities, you will see plenty of them. I live in a somewhat rural, conservative county of about 250,000 people and it typically goes 70/30 as it did this time.
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