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Howdentiger2 said:
Shows how much attention I'm paying! TBD just look at the Twitter account if the guy who posted it and it's entertaining to say the least!
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Twitter have removed the tweet now.

They also removed Trump's claim that there had been voter fraud.

Edit: Just looked at that blokes Twitter feed, loads of the things he tweets are removed by Twitter for being false or misleading, yet he still has 262k followers. <doh>
 
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Howdentiger2 said:
Shows how much attention I'm paying! TBD just look at the Twitter account if the guy who posted it and it's entertaining to say the least!
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Political twitter, particularly US political twitter, is both the funniest and scariest social media you'll see.

I wouldn't touch any political twitter accounts, even those I agree with, because it is just so toxic. My timeline is filled with sports stuff (which can get pretty toxic and tribal if you look below the surface) and people I actually know personally.
 
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Quill said:
<laugh>


The EC is pretty outdated to be fair, it's a **** system. Ours is pretty rubbish, but that one is just ****e.
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The EC isn't outdated, it's just that few understand it. In our federal system, the loci of government reside in the state capitals. Every state has its own election laws, subject only to the loose framework of election laws established by the federal government with limit set by the constitution. Ergo, there are differences in eligibility, balloting, etc. from one state to the next. For this reason there are no national elections. All elections, to the lowest of offices, are governed by state election law. It would make no sense to usurp 50 sets of election laws, covering tens of thousands of elections every cycle, to alter how one election is decided.
 
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OedipusTex said:
The EC isn't outdated, it's just that few understand it. In our federal system, the loci of government reside in the state capitals. Every state has its own election laws, subject only to the loose framework of election laws established by the federal government with limit set by the constitution. Ergo, there are differences in eligibility, balloting, etc. from one state to the next. For this reason there are no national elections. All elections, to the lowest of offices, are governed by state election law. It would make no sense to usurp 50 sets of election laws, covering tens of thousands of elections every cycle, to alter how one election is decided.
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I've suffered from this "distribution" of authority for years in my career, having to deal with 5o States, each with differing financial rules & regulations that essentially cost a fortune to design into major financial computer systems.
The "United" States of America is somewhat an oxymoron.
 
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Wisconsin now officially flipped to the Dems. Biden now 22 away from the Presidency, and his position looks almost certain right now. Not guaranteed though, of course.


For the record, the last State to be decided was ELEVEN HOURS AGO. Hurry up for ****s sake!
 
Hillary Clinton tells Joe Biden not to concede election ‘under any circumstances’

August 2020
 
Quill said:
Wisconsin now officially flipped to the Dems. Biden now 22 away from the Presidency, and his position looks almost certain right now. Not guaranteed though, of course.

Wouldn't be surprised if that's one trump really contests as it's only a Biden win by approx 21,000 votes


For the record, the last State to be decided was ELEVEN HOURS AGO. Hurry up for ****s sake!
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