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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"There is no counting ballots after the election because the election's not over until all the ballo
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Rep. Jim McGovern
@RepMcGovern
There is no counting ballots after the election because the elections not over until all the ballots are counted. Great way to put it @JoyAnnReid!
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"There is no counting ballots after the election because the election's not over until all the ballo (Original Post)
soothsayer
Nov 2020
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C_U_L8R
(49,117 posts)1. Exactly.
SheltieLover
(78,256 posts)2. Well said! 👏👏👏👏👏
Dimwit does not understand Russia & USA elections are handled differently.
2naSalit
(100,973 posts)3. And that's how it works. ...nt
The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)4. Hear Hear, Sir
Solly Mack
(96,643 posts)5. K&R
yonder
(10,264 posts)6. Beauty in simplicity.
LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)7. Very true.
dchill
(42,660 posts)8. No two ways about it.
wnylib
(25,355 posts)9. There was a tweet farther down
past the replies to the linked tweet. It was from Walter Shaub and says,
"You think you feel bad? Just think about the poor Canadians watching this election, knowing if it goes badly they're going to have to fund a wall on their southern border."
peggysue2
(12,443 posts)10. Or as Rick Wilson has been saying all day
Fuck you and keep counting!
Little more salty than McGovern's comment but gets to the same place.
Grins
(9,333 posts)12. By law it's over...
...the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. When the votes from the electors are due. Which, this year is December 14th.
(Election Act of 1887, and its still the law.)
