***** Official All-Inclusive 2020 Election Night Thread *****

[Winehole23]

I really don’t understand how you can submit ballots AFTER Election Day Face with tears of joy mind as well call it election week then

That's because you don't understand how elections work.

All 50 states count votes after the polls close until they're all counted (which can take days and weeks), 18 of them accept and tally absentee ballots that arrive after election day.

States have 35 days after election day to certify the results, and the US President isn't elected until six days after that.

State and Citation	Deadline by Which Election Officials Must Receive Absentee/Mailed Ballots	Does the State Accept Postmarked Ballots that Arrive After Election Day?
Alabama Ala. Code § 17-11-18	Election Day (by noon) and postmarked by the day before the election.	No
Alaska AS § 15.20.081(e) and (h)	Election Day or 10 days after the election if postmarked on or before Election Day.	Yes
Arizona A.R.S. 16-547	Election Day (by 7 p.m.)	No
Arkansas A.C.A. § 7-5-411	Election Day (by 7:30 p.m.) for mailed ballots or close of business the day before the election for hand-delivered ballots.	No
California West's Ann. Cal. Elect. Code § 3020	Election Day (before polls close) or three days after the election if postmarked on or before Election Day.	Yes
Colorado C.R.S. § 1-7.5-107	Election Day (by 7 p.m.)	No
Connecticut Conn. Gen. Stat. 45-9-140b	Election Day (before polls close)	No
Delaware Del. Code Ann. § 15-55-5508	Election Day (before polls close)	No
District of Columbia DC ST § 1-1001.05(a)(10A)	Seven days after the election if postmarked on or before Election Day.	Yes
Florida West's F.S.A. §101.67	Election Day (by 7 p.m.)	No
Georgia GA Code Ann. 183-1-14	Election Day (before polls close)	No
Hawaii Act 136, SLH 2019	Election Day (before polls close)	No
Idaho Idaho Code 10-34-1005	Election Day (by 8 p.m.)	No
Illinois 10 ILCS 5/19-8, 10 ILCS 5/18A-15	Fourteen days after the election if postmarked on or before Election Day.	Yes
Indiana IC 3-12-1-17	Election Day	No
Iowa Iowa Code § 53.17(2)	Election Day (before polls close) or noon the Monday following the election if postmarked by the day before the election.	Yes (must be postmarked the day before the election)
Kansas K.S.A. 25-1132	Three days after the election if postmarked before the close of polls on Election Day.	Yes
Kentucky Ky. Rev. Stat. 117.086	Election Day (before polls close)	No
Louisiana LSA-R.S. 18:1311	The day before the election.	No
Maine Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. 21-A § 755	Election Day (before polls close)	No
Maryland MD Code, Election Law, § 9-505	Postmarked on or before Election Day.	Yes
Massachusetts Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. Section 95	Election Day (before polls close)	No
Michigan Mich. Comp. Laws 168.764a	Election Day (before polls close)	No
Minnesota Minn. Stat. 203B.08	Election Day (before polls close) for mailed/absentee ballots or 3 p.m. on Election Day for hand-delivered ballots.	No
Mississippi Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-637	Five business days after Election Day if postmarked on or before Election Day.	Yes
Missouri Mo. Rev. Stat. 115.293	Election Day (before polls close)	No
Montana Mont. Code Ann. 13-13-232	Election Day (before polls close)	No
Nebraska Nebraska Revised Statute 32-950	Election Day (before polls close)	No
Nevada NV Rev Stat § 293.317	By 5 p.m. on the seventh day after Election Day if postmarked by Election Day. Ballots with unclear postmarks must be received by 5 p.m. on the third day after Election Day.	Yes
New Hampshire NH Rev Stat § 657:22	Election Day (by 5 p.m.)	No
New Jersey N.J.S.A. 19:63-22	Forty-eight hours after polls close if postmarked on or before Election Day.	Yes
New Mexico N.M. Stat. Ann. 1-6-10(B)	Election Day (by 7 p.m.)	No
New York McKinney's Election Law § 8-412	Election Day (before polls close) for hand-delivered ballots or seven days after the election for mailed ballots postmarked on Election Day.	Yes
North Carolina N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163A-1310	Three days after the election if postmarked on or before Election Day.	Yes
North Dakota NDCC 16.1-07-09	The day before the election. Before the canvass if postmarked the day before the election.	Yes (must be postmarked the day before the election)
Ohio R.C. § 3509.05	Ten days after the election if postmarked by the day before Election Day.	Yes (must be postmarked the day before the election)
Oklahoma 26 OK Stat § 26-14-104	Election Day (by 7 p.m.)	No
Oregon Or. Rev. Stat. §253.070	Election Day (by 8 p.m.)	No
Pennsylvania 25 P.S. § 3146.8	Election Day (by 8 p.m.)	No
Rhode Island RI Gen L § 17-20-8	Election Day (by 8 p.m.)	No
South Carolina SC Code § 7-15-420	Election Day (before polls close)	No
South Dakota S.D. Codified Laws Ann. 12-19-12	Election Day (before polls close)	No
Tennessee Tenn. Code Ann. 2-6-304	Election Day (before polls close)	No
Texas Texas Election Code § 86.007	The day after the election by 5 p.m. if postmarked on or before Election Day.	Yes
Utah Utah Code Ann. § 20A-3a-204	Seven to 14 days after the election (by the county canvass date) if postmarked the day before the election.	Yes (must be postmarked the day before the election)
Vermont Vermont Statutes le 17. Elections, § 2543	Absentee votes must be returned to the town clerk's office before the close of business on the day before the election, or to the polling place by 7pm on Election Day.	No
Virginia Va. Code 24.2-709	Three days after the election (by noon) if postmarked on or before Election Day.	Yes
Washington West's RCWA 29A.40.091	Postmarked on or before Election Day.	Yes
West Virginia W. Va. Code, § 3-3-5, § 3-5-17	Five days after the election if postmarked on or before Election Day.	Yes
Wisconsin Wis. Stat. 6.87(6)	Election Day (by 8 p.m.)	No
Wyoming Wyo. Stat. 22-9-119	Election Day (before polls close)	No

https://www.ncsl.org/research/electi...e-ballots.aspx

[Isitjustme?]

Barry carried that twice with black voters. Nobody showed up for old Joe today.

Silly to compare any candidate to Obama who was the first black candidate for president and who had insane popularity among African Americans that will likely never be duplicated even by another black candidate. I know Hillary did about as well as a standard Democrat with blacks in 16.

Really more than anything last two elections make Obama look better considering he won 365 and 332 electoral college votes. Dude won Iowa twice even.

[slick'81]

Looking like another four years of trump

[Spurtacular]

Pretty much this. America has spoken. I shall revert back to my Bernie loving ways in Biden in Shilary damn you both

Trying to think of any Democrats I like; none coming to mind right away.

[Winehole23]

Georgia has been at 91 percent reporting for about 80 minutes now. Ridiculous.

What's ridiculous about it? The delay in Fulton County was announced hours ago. I believe there's another large county that won't have its unofficial tally (all tallies are unofficial until certification) until tomorrow. There's nothing unusual about counting votes after election day.

[Winehole23]

Pakman read that off on his election show?

Couldn't tell you, I don't follow him.

[phxspurfan]

Joe Biden sons, really? Joe ing Biden. That's a Republican type candidate. Yall ed up sons. The worst part is Sanders is too ing old. He can't campaign no more.

Bernie would have done better than this. He would have been hitting the pavement much more

[tbdog]

Looking like another four years of trump

I'm getting mixed messages on who's winning. If must be close.

[Isitjustme?]

[Spurtacular]

Couldn't tell you, I don't follow him.

Why don't you follow him? His views are right up your alley.

[Spurtacular]

What's ridiculous about it? The delay in Fulton County was announced hours ago. I believe there's another large county that won't have its unofficial tally (all tallies are unofficial until certification) until tomorrow. There's nothing unusual about counting votes after election day.

Still says 91 percent on NYT and is 94 percent on FNC. These numbers have been fishy all night long.

[Spurtacular]

Got to agree with the various posters who have already called it. This is a Trump victory. Even if Dems somehow steal GA, Trump has WI (along with PA and MI).

[Spurtacular]

Alpha Trump calling out the lowlifes trying to steal the election!
Protect the integrity of the vote!

[Spurtacular]

The administration of this election was a disgrace. Democrats holding the American people hostage. Par.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Biden's gonna steal WI and MI at the last minute with the Milwaukee and Detroit votes.

[boutons_deux]

Third world county ought to do a better election

As with the The Trump-Made Pandemic killing more than other wealthy countries, the industrial countries also have more reliable, more efficient election systems.

America's intentionally disastrous election system is more evidence of a failed state.

[Spurtacular]

GA vote counters forced off the jobs in the middle of counting and leaving ballots unaccounted.
Totally scandalous.

[Spurtacular]

Biden's gonna steal WI and MI at the last minute with the Milwaukee and Detroit votes.

MI not getting stolen; though they want to.

They're trying to steal WI and GA; but I don't think they're getting either.

GA Fulton County has a more than 50 Repub area that had delays that isn't part of the count.

The writing is on the wall. Trump won the election.

[midnightpulp]

So it begins.

[midnightpulp]

^Biden now up 20K in WI.

[midnightpulp]

[Rummpd]

Back on and this is a big change in WI but is it definite for JB.

[boutons_deux]

WI = 10 EC votes.

[boutons_deux]

If Biden just breaks through 270,

Repugs will "Brooks Brothers riot" contest a few states

which means those states' EC votes will not count until contesting is resolved.

The Repugs could drag out the contests past the 28 Dec deadline, disenfranchising entire states, which is when the states must submit their EC votes. 6 Jan is when Congress tallies the votes.

The Repugs have been trying to get some Repug-controlled states to select "faithless electors" who would vote for Trump if Biden won the state.

( btw, 5 electors abandoned Hillary to vote Trash, and 2 abandoned Trash to vote for Hillary )

Again, the ED UP anti-democratic Cons ution is ing disaster.

[FrostKing]

If Biden just breaks through 270,

Repugs will "Brooks Brothers riot" contest a few states

which means those states' EC votes will not count until contesting is resolved.

The Repugs could drag out the contests past the 28 Dec deadline, disenfranchising entire states, which is when the states must submit their EC votes. 6 Jan is when Congress tallies the votes.

The Repugs have been trying to get some Repug-controlled states to select "faithless electors" who would vote for Trump if Biden won the state.

( btw, 5 electors abandoned Hillary to vote Trash, and 2 abandoned Trash to vote for Hillary )

Again, the ED UP anti-democratic Cons ution is ing disaster.

Squirming back to the system you spent half a year trashing and discrediting.