JoanofArgh

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November 2, 2020

Early voting in AZ just surpassed it's entire vote count for 2016

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1323368642508214275?s=20

And news from Mississippi

https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1323354931307433986?s=20

November 2, 2020

Here's some good news from Georgia

https://twitter.com/tbonier/status/1323374653583360006

https://twitter.com/tbonier/status/1323375390220558339

https://twitter.com/tbonier/status/1323375916475699203

November 1, 2020

Trump's planning on declaring victory Tuesday night if he's ahead-Axios

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1322981523608449024?s=20

President Trump has told confidants he'll declare victory on Tuesday night if it looks like he's "ahead," according to three sources familiar with his private comments.

That's even if the Electoral College outcome still hinges on large numbers of uncounted votes in key states like Pennsylvania.
Behind the scenes: Trump has privately talked through this scenario in some detail in the last few weeks, describing plans to walk up to a podium on election night and declare he has won.

For this to happen, his allies expect he would need to either win or have commanding leads in Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Iowa, Arizona and Georgia.
Why it matters: Trump's team is preparing to falsely claim that mail-in ballots counted after Nov. 3 — a legitimate count expected to favor Democrats — are evidence of election fraud.

Details: Many prognosticators say that on election night, Trump will likely appear ahead in Pennsylvania — though the state's final outcome could change substantially as mail-in ballots are counted over the following days. Trump's team is preparing to claim baselessly that if that process changes the outcome in Pennsylvania from the picture on election night, then Democrats would have "stolen" the election.

https://www.axios.com/trump-claim-election-victory-ballots-97eb12b9-5e35-402f-9ea3-0ccfb47f613f.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=twitter

Fuck this asshole.

November 1, 2020

Biden has big leads among those who didn't vote in 2016

https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs/status/1322852329910116359?s=21

https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs/status/1322856646520033281?s=21

Imagine being 73 years old and never once voting. I don’t understand this.

November 1, 2020

Republicans closely resemble autocratic parties in Hungary and Turkey - study

Julian Borger in Washington
Mon 26 Oct 2020 01.00 EDT

The Republican party has become dramatically more illiberal in the past two decades and now more closely resembles ruling parties in autocratic societies than its former centre-right equivalents in Europe, according to a new international study.

In a significant shift since 2000, the GOP has taken to demonising and encouraging violence against its opponents, adopting attitudes and tactics comparable to ruling nationalist parties in Hungary, India, Poland and Turkey.
The shift has both led to and been driven by the rise of Donald Trump.

By contrast the Democratic party has changed little in its attachment to democratic norms, and in that regard has remained similar to centre-right and centre-left parties in western Europe. Their principal difference is the approach to the economy.

The new study, the largest ever of its kind, was carried out by the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, using newly developed methods to measure and quantify the health of the world’s democracies at a time when authoritarianism is on the rise. Anna Lührmann, V-Dem’s deputy director, said the Republican transformation had been “certainly the most dramatic shift in an established democracy”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/26/republican-party-autocratic-hungary-turkey-study-trump

October 31, 2020

NC AG Josh Stein said that voting wasn't impacted in Alamance County

https://twitter.com/JoshStein_/status/1322638982438674436?s=20

... and all is calm now. I reached out to the State Board of Elections and was informed that the events appear not to have impacted voting at the early voting location. The site there was calm, and the voters got in line and voted.

I have also reached out to the Alamance County Sheriff but have not yet connected. I will update when I learn more. 3/3

https://twitter.com/HuffmanForNC/status/1322592328503144449?s=20

https://twitter.com/will_doran/status/1322611951156027393?s=20

https://twitter.com/will_doran/status/1322615042748174342?s=20

October 29, 2020