Michael Steele predicting the Reverse Raccoon will not accept a lost election.

[Stinky The Clown]

To quote his coda: Be ready to deal with that.

[questionseverything]

1. the vote count needs to be open ,honest and overwhelming so there is no doubt

[frazzled]

7. Problem is, it may take a long time (weeks) for ballots to be counted

Here is a chart of when each state can begin to verify signatures and/or count ballots. It varies widely. Even in states where counting can begin early, as in California it has typically taken a long time. (For this years’s primary it took a full month after Election Day.)

That will give Trump a long long time to call foul.

Here’s the state by state rundown. Many states will be doing this on a mass basis for the first time, so it could be arduous.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/vopp-table-16-when-absentee-mail-ballot-processing-and-counting-can-begin.aspx

[Lock him up.]

8. Delay the EC vote (the POTUS is really elected by the 538 *electors*)...

... until all votes are counted. Possible?

RICO the tRump MOB

[questionseverything]

10. it takes as long as it takes

I am hoping for a Biden landslide

[frazzled]

14. As long as you're ready for three or more weeks of chaos

I will have to go hide in a bunker. If we thought 2000 was a nightmare (which it was), this is going to be the ninth circle of hell. I know, it is what it is, but I am going to try to bank my vote at an early in-person polling place, if the gods permit.

[questionseverything]

15. i do not like early voting in my town because they make you use a machine instead of paper ballot

i will take my absentee ballot to the election commission myself

hand counting paper ballots does not have to take weeks at all...especially for one race

Colorado has been doing all paper absentee ballots for a decade i don't remember having to wait on them and they hand count

[frazzled]

16. You only have one race on your ballot?

We usually have more than 50.

It took California more than 3 weeks to count the ballots for the primary.

[questionseverything]

18. if it is only the presidential race that is being contested

they wouldn't have to wait for all the races to be counted to announce pres/vp results

doesn't california put the ballots thru a machine? that actually takes longer and can miss the intent of the voter

for example gore "lost" florida according to the machine count but when newspapers went back to count the votes they found there were 275,000 overvotes,about 2/3s of those overvotes were for gore..... votes where it was punched next to gores name and then gore was written in on the write in candidate line...obviously the voters intent was gore but since they had done it "wrong" their vote didn't count


just think what a difference it would of made if we had hand counted the entire state and used the standard of voters intent


no w. bush,no iraq war maybe even no 9-11

democracy is too important to not get it right

[cayugafalls]

2. My dad and I were talking about this today.

But I told him he will have to accept defeat, because it will be a landslide.

Then I told him to make sure he votes!

[JI7]

3. Of course he wont. But it doesn't Matter. WE NEED TO WIN . and it doesn't matter whether he accepts

it . WE accepts it and he will be a shitstain in our history.

We will run his ass out if he refuses to leave but we know he wont refuse and his coward ass will be gone while tweeting about how everything was unfair to him.

[Claustrum]

4. Back in 2016, he was shouting "rigged" and not accept losing result too

He was always going to create chaos by not accepting the result. Hell, even when he won the EV, he still shouted rigged for losing popular votes. He always did what Russia wanted the most, create chaos in the US.

Unfortunately for us, he is now president and have a much bigger microphone to do all his shouting and kicking. I just hope the result won't be close so reasonable people will ignore his crying and whining. If the result is remotely close, we will see months of chaos as he will fight the result every step of the way.

[Lock him up.]

9. That's one of the reasons for the EC.

After they vote, it's over.

No matter how loud the toddler-in-chief will whine, after the 538 electors cast their vote, there is nothing he can do.

Nothing.

Then PROSECUTION TIME!
RICO the tRump MOB

[still_one]

5. and what will he do if and when he loses

[Progressive Jones]

6. He will call it "rigged" and whine about it 24/7. nt

[stopdiggin]

11. true. just like he does now.

just like he has every day over the last 4 years.
True, there are some jackhammers that are still tuned in -- but most people are really tired of his sh*t. (including a whole lot in his own party)

[Cha]

12. Well yeah, it's not like he hasn't said he's going to

run for a 3rd term bc in his paranoid delusion of grandeur someone spied on him.

The question is.. How do we deal with it. But I bet brilliant minds on working on it.

[demosincebirth]

13. Bill Maher, said that seven month ago.

[ecstatic]

17. And yet he will be removed regardless. I'm sure a therapist can help him

accept reality and his pending indictments.