Get out and vote!!!
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I think they stayed in, and voted. These are mail-in ballots, right?
Not necessarily, early in-person and mail in is what they are talking about. Someone will correct me if I’m wrong!
Early, in person voting started today on GA.
Are there some exit polls (I know, I lnow, it's not reliable) ?
Someone will correct me if I’m wrong!
A true believer in Cominghome's Law.
I actually tend to drop off my mail ballots at the local library drop box.
No way man.
I’m voting by mail in my underpants.
I'm voting in person in my underpants
I will also be voting in person in your underpants.
I will be voting you in his underpants!
And my ~~axe~~ ass!
I will be voting for his underpants
Glad to see Jimmy got his chance to cast his vote.
Next goal: be able to call her to offer his congratulations after the election.
Does his vote still count if he dies between now and then? One of the infamous "dead people voting."
Yes. Georgia has no specific law about this, so by default it will count. I also believe I read they can't find individual peoples votes for privacy reasons, so there is no way to pull it back.
If you can legally vote when voting opens in Georgia and do so, it will count.
Oh yeah that's today. He made it.
"Record number of early votes to go uncounted in forced hand recounts which will not be achievable in the three day deadline."
Stop.
Stop what, counting ballots? I believe that is the plan, yes.
Sowing doubt that people's votes would count which could discourage others from voting would be my guess. I know what you said is right though. 🥲
Yep. John Oliver covered it in detail on Sunday. I hate that it's true, but it's true.
Just because you can do a thing, doesn’t mean that you should.
What did you hope to accomplish with your original reply?
Just because you can do a thing, doesn’t mean that you should.
Sorry... do you think that there won't be hand recounts in Georgia with a maximum of three days to do it, despite the election board specifically saying the exact opposite?
There will not. It was overruled: Georgia judge blocks ballot counting rule and says county officials must certify election results
A very welcome new element in this story, but as I said to someone else, it will get appealed. This is not over.
And what do you think happens when it hits Georgia Supreme? I think we've seen this show before.
To impart the perception of having a well informed opinion about everything.
I do not have a "well informed opinion about everything."
I just literally watched the Last Week Tonight episode that discusses this ratfuckery the Republicans are doing in Georgia four days ago.
That doesn't make me well-informed, that makes John Oliver's writers well-informed. And they literally showed clips of election workers complaining to the election board about the hand recount requirement.
I have no idea why you and the others are carrying water for GOP election officials, but you shouldn't. They're cheating right out in the open.
That is so good to hear. Of course, it will get appealed and sent to a higher court, so we'll have to wait and see, but that's still great news. Thank you.
It's reaching the point where that won't matter.
Bush v Gore was clear regarding the Safe Harbor date. Even if the traitorous, anti-democracy assholes win on appeal, it won't matter if the election is over and the state legislature turns red and reverses the laws.
Congrats to Jimmy Carter, he made it!
Hopefully he gets to see her win.
I’m roughly half his age and I’m hoping to finally see our first female president. I can only imagine how thrilled he’d be to see it happen.
And they'll find a way to invalidate these or just "dispose" of them. But vote!!!
Wooo! Go Georgia!