Vayutuvan wrote:
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1. If the margin of winning is <= 0.5%, it will automatically trigger recounting. They are asking for that where feasible. In GA, it is 0.7%. There the state officials, GOP, might allow a recount.
Is that exactly correct? I thought the rule was that one can ask for a recount & pay the fees, but the margin has to be < 1% for the request to be accepted. Maybe it varies from state to state as do most things.
2. Mail-in ballots are double the number that was received in 2016. There was (and still is) widespread belief that mail-in ballots are rife for election fraud and ballot harvesting. That needs to be looked into, for the sake of protecting future elections. Two important senate run-offs are going to be held in just two months.
Only double? I would have thought it was even more, due to Covid worries.
There is no question that the volume of mail-in ballots is unprecedented, and there will probably be many problems with it. Future elections will no doubt see some adjustments or even major changes. CA has been monkeying around with the nuts & bolts of the ballot process like crazy in the past 2-3 election cycles. I suspect they have McKinsey or some of the other biggies telling them what to do. Because especially for the off-year elections, they have been getting pathetic turnout levels, sometimes < 10%.
(You don't have to believe me, but state / county offices and election officials of whatever party are, for the most part, not in the business of destroying the credibility of their own process. I don't know if you ever worked with local-level government officials, but most of them (at the middle management level), whatever the party, are pretty sincere people, who still have to operate within bureaucratic rules, so someone looking at their work from outside may think they are slow or stupid or ill-intentioned. At the higher / executive level, it is more of a mixed bag, they tend to be political appointments, and you are lucky if you get someone that is sincere and competent.)
I think the states were faced with a dilemma. Suppose some purple state didn't do full-blast mailing of ballots, and left it for people to request them. If the Dems won in that scenario, the Rs would have still cursed them for making it harder for supposedly Republican elderly to vote by mail (for example), so "conspiring" to make them lose. If they made the full-blast decision, and Dems won, the Rs would curse them in the way they are doing now. (If the Rs had won, I would assume they would have faced something equivalent from the Dem side).
They had to land on some decision, which they did, and they are paying the expected price. From the public pov, I think a reasonable, intelligent analysis would have shown some understanding of the process, instead of jumping right away into incendiary conspiracy rhetoric.
3. Legality of PA SC extending the deadline. There is some question as to whether that is constitutional. State legislature is the final adjudicator to change any of these laws. Did PA SC overstep their authority?
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That's in the lap of the SC as I understand. The Rs may win this one as they have a reasonable case.
An autopsy needs to be done as per the law and any mistakes corrected even if it doesn't happen by Jan 20, 2021.
That is the point.
Just because somebody is asking to let the cases work through the legal system doesn't mean that they are for Trump or Blind Biden bhakt - BBB
I am quite sure there will be plenty of "autopsy" that will happen: media, academia, and of course the political world. To paraphrase one famous Reality Show Politician, "there will be so much autopsy, you will be tired of autopsy."
By the way, you should be putting a smiley after your Blind Biden Bhakt crack. Do you really think such a creature exists? Someone who is so excited by, and and enamoured of Biden? He won the Primary and the General, precisely because he is dull and non-threatening, and there is no such animal as a BBB.
