It's pretty funny because you're being a ginormous hypocrite. ?
There's about as much evidence that the GA Governor vote was "suppressed" as there is of any measurable fraud taking place with the late ballot count here. FFS....Drumpf is following Stacey Abrams' playbook almost to a tee with all the preemptive crying. ?
Yeah that's basically what I just said. The SOS knew months in advance that they couldn't start counting until Election Day, and yet were woefully unprepared anyway. The only "great pains" the legislature went through was not changing the existing law on counting. The rest lies fully at the feet of the SOS, whose actual
job it is to ensure a smooth process.
Dude, there were almost a half dozen people here (present company included) who speculated that PA could well decide the election. You're just making sht up now lol.
First, there is an enormous difference in the voter registration rolls-purging that Kemp perpetrated (For NO GOOD REASON) in GA, before the 2018 election, and the questioning about vote counting that Trump is trying to hang his hat on now...so NO-- Trump's playbook is NOT identical to Abrams' contentions.
But, having said that, I am HAPPY to see the Republicans pursue ALL of the lawsuits on wanting to verity voters' eligibility (like that old lady in NV, that they dragged out, who said her ballot had been stolen- who then acted like Gilda Radner playing Emily Litella on SNL ["Never mind."} when they showed her HER signature on her ballot) and the accuracy of the vote-counting process-- I WANT everybody to see that the votes (and the voters) were legitimate this time-- so that Trump supporters will be FORCED to accept that this government is legitimate and was duly elected by a majority of the electorate-- I want the government to be accepted-- so, I say, let Trump pursue as many lawsuits, and voter verifications, and ballot examinations as he wishes-- within the allotted time for such... I'm willing to stand by, all the way up till ~Jan 1, and see that all of the GOP's concerns are addressed-- I don't see ANY hypocrisy in that-- you've NOT heard me complaining about the lawsuits one iota!
As for your argument about the SOS-- what the hell were they supposed to do??!-- It's all well and good for you to act like Jean-Luc Picard ("Make it so!")-- but these SOS's departments were given NOTHING extra to handle this enormous mountain of new (and non-similar) work that they were being asked to do-- there was NO preparation by the state legislatures-- in the form of additional resources-- that is what I meant by doing nothing-- they were at great pains to insist on the outmoded laws on ballot-counting that they had put in place (they could have amended the law between the primary and the election), and then gave the SOS NOTHING to help handle the vast new workload...
That said, there is NOTHING wrong with PA taking 3 days after the election to count all the votes-- that is NOT even EXTRAORDINARY, in any relevant examination of history-- you don't hear ANYONE in the GOP complaining about AK-- because they are winning there-- and expect to win at the conclusion-- but they act like PA (with MANY TIMES the ballots to count of AK) is somehow committing some egregious violation of performance norms, by taking ~3 days to count the ballots-- get a grip, DUDE!
As for your call on PA, I commend you-- but there were plenty of people on here who ALSO thought that PA would be easily in Trump's pocket--and you are missing the point anyway-- I'm not talking about your call of who would win it-- I'm talking about Silver's prediction that it would take several days for the result in PA to come in-- and that it would be THE KEY DATA POINT that decided the election at that point--HE knew that PA would not be decided for several days-- and he also thought it would be the Keystone that decided it-- meaning that he predicted the election would take several days to call-- I don't remember you being THAT pointed about your prediction-- if you were, then you likely wouldn't be complaining about the time it took for PA to do their work here now... It feels like you (and those like you) love to criticize Silver-- but never acknowledge the accuracy that he has achieved. Show me where you said PA would take days after the election to call--and then explain why, if you KNEW that ahead of time, you are complaining about it, as if it were somehow evidence of fraud or incompetence, now.
BTW, Sliver's prediction of the popular vote forecast fell well within his margin of error for the actual outcome.
