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Posted on 11/02/2020 7:40:23 AM PST by rktman
Many states will not have complete results on election night.
The results at the beginning and at the end of the night will be skewed in some places.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
NYT getting ready to tee it up; the whole “votes need to be counted” and “lawsuits to stop the count are voter suppression” thing, so that they can keep counting for weeks
But the media will already be calling it for Biden by 7:00pm tomorrow.
Amazing to see some swing States lean D. Fake news!! The old grey lady is dead and what the NYT is a zombie paper
This will be the first Presidential election I can recall where the voting results for all states was not known on election night.
Results were known in Bush/Gore but then contested.
If somehow Biden were winning clear victory in state after state, the media will call the election for Biden, regardless of where things stand with counting mail in ballots days later.
But if Trump appears to be winning clear victory in state after state, the media will NOT call the election for Trump, and revert to the meme that “we need to wait for the official vote count” ,etc. And in some states, “we need to wait for the recounts”.
My expectation is that all extended vote-counting will be challenged in court with the federal gov’t demanding that no votes after the end of voting be counted. Alito even made reference to this in the PA case. The argument will, IMHO, be cased on Equal Protection, in that voters in states which allowed extended time would be given preferential treatment vs those who voted in states that do not.
It is a longstanding principle of jurisprudence that courts but be courts of equity as well as of the law. “The early amendments of the United States Constitution explicitly acknowledged common law and equity as being clear divisions of jurisprudence. However, Rule 2 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure came into effect in 1938 to unite common law with equitable claims”.
As much as I despise the NYT, their election tracking website was awesome in 2016. I used it all night and was 100% sure Trump was going to win much earlier than the networks called the race. I was certain by 11:30.
Their site made it easy to tell which counties had been counted, and how the result compared to the 2012 results. That made it obvious that Trump was exceeding Romney just about everywhere.
Yep.
It’s my go-to election night results site.
NY Times election night coverage was good last time. They had a percentage chance to win that moved in Trump’s favor relatively early in the evening while the networks still seemed to think that Clinton was favorite.
My Texas requires ballots to be postmarked by election day and RECEIVED the day after to be counted. So, we’ll essentially have a declared winniner within 24 hours of election day.
MSM, not mms.
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I just went back and found a comment I made on election night last time.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3491127/posts?page=3267#3267
“The NY Times Upshot http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president has Trump at 54% chance of winning
3,267 posted on 11/8/2016, 9:35:43 PM by FewsOrange “
They call SC “Likely R”? Eat it, NYT.
Complete results are never known the night after the polls close. It’s all about degrees of certainty.
LOL! That’s why I mentioned their take on the “leanings”.
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