Georgia finished counting their absentee ballots Friday, parts of Iowa too

[Johnny2X2X]

This idea that absentee ballots were going to hold up results was pushed by some news networks when they took a couple special cases and made assumptions. Florida's will mostly be processed too by close of polls. MI as well.

And in almost none of the states will day of ballots get preferential treatment.

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. I've been pointing out for some time that most states

count the mailed in and early ballots in a timely fashion. Pennsylvania is the only large state that doesn't start counting them until at least Election Day itself. Seven counties there won't be bothered to start counting until polls close this evening, but they probably won't make much of a difference in the end. A number of states allow late-arriving ballots to be counted, but rarely do those late arrivals change anything.

Plus, most states don't actually certify their final results until some time after Election Day, and again, it is extremely rare for anything to change.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Thank you

I think a certain network people here watch exclusively likes to promote unlikely scenarios that drive fear. I do not watch cable news, and people in my life have presented these unlikely scenarios to me and worded things in a way I knew it was fear mongering. In most places, absentee ballots get counted either first or right along with same day ballots. We're going to have results in GA and FL early tonight. PA will still be counting ballots late into the morning, but it's not like those will be weighted to absentee ballots, there will be in person ballots mixed in too.

Fear drives ratings. This is not 2016, and it's not a close race at all, so these scenarios drive ratings because they are fear based.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. I have a good friend in Pennsylvania,

a strong liberal Democrat, who is completely freaking out that Trump will simply declare himself the winner. Every time I point out that Trump can do that but it won't mean anything, he just goes to the, "But he will do that!"

Just like all the people here who've been saying for months that come January 20, 2021, Trump will refuse to leave the White House. That won't happen. For one thing, the time when the outgoing President leaves to attend the inaugural, armies of movers remove all of the outgoing family's stuff and put in all of the new family's stuff. So the departing President leaves from his normally furnished place, and the incoming one arrives later that day to his fully furnished place. None of the days or weeks of packing and unpacking that we mortals endure when we relocate.

[BComplex]

3. I understand Joni Ernst is ahead by a small margin in Iowa.

I really want every senate seat we can possibly get.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Right now that's impossible to know, other than to make

guesses based on how many Ds and how many Rs have shown up at the polling places.

Despite whatever claims are being made here, not actual vote counts are being released anywhere.

[BComplex]

6. Just heard it on some random radio station on my way home from

the grocery store.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Well, take it with a very large grain of salt.

Again, no results are released until polls close.

[Sogo]

8. Would prefer to hear that there is a long line

in Fulton Co. That's Atlanta.....

[FakeNoose]

9. If mailed ballots are here to stay - and I think they are -

... then every state will establish new procedures and guidelines before the next election. This is weird because it's so new, and procedures were mostly written in years when there were almost no absentee ballots to worry about. Now we know differently and it is a big deal.

I'm sure Pennsylvania won't want to be the state that causes the biggest headache for the next election. It would be nice if there were federal guidelines that all states could follow, and try to keep it standardized with no surprises.