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Cicada

(4,533 posts)
10. Did Rush Holt win by one vote? Or tie?
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 01:29 PM
Aug 2020

How many congressional elections in the past century have been decided by fewer than 10 votes, let alone. If what I said, that your one vote will not matter, is bull shit give me one example of an election decided by one vote. Then tell me how many electoral races have there been? I think there are 500,000 elected officials in the US, 500,000 elections per year. So if you can find one election decided by one vote then to get the probability divide it by say the ten million elections in the past twenty years. Everyone here will vote. I will crawl over broken glass to vote for Joe Biden. But some calculator in my head knows that I am not motivated by the real probability of changing an electoral outcome.

I know I am not supposed to say that. I told my wife you hate me for posting that, don’t you. She said no. She is lying. But what I said was not bullshit.

I plan to bring my ballot to the county auditor's office, as my bullwinkle428 Aug 2020 #1
We are doing the same here! Alliepoo Aug 2020 #2
You have to have it mailed to you first. My mail is soooo bad right now I don't know if mucifer Aug 2020 #3
Download your absentee ballot from vote.org eppur_se_muova Aug 2020 #9
It's an application, not a ballot. LisaL Aug 2020 #12
Oh, right. Doesn't help. nt eppur_se_muova Aug 2020 #13
Exactly. All of this plans to supposedly avoid USPS still involve USPS. LisaL Aug 2020 #14
No, this is overkill Cicada Aug 2020 #4
That's you're opinion. I happen to follow climate change in great detail. NNadir Aug 2020 #5
Did Rush Holt win by one vote? Or tie? Cicada Aug 2020 #10
Rush Holt won when absentee ballots were counted. NNadir Aug 2020 #19
What are the odds an early mail in ballot won't be counted? Cicada Aug 2020 #20
Much higher than the odds that I'll further tolerate this silly conversation. n/t. NNadir Aug 2020 #21
Same here. LastDemocratInSC Aug 2020 #6
That's what I'm doing. ananda Aug 2020 #7
We have a drop box in front of city hall here in New Haven. CTyankee Aug 2020 #8
You need to have a ballot to drop off. LisaL Aug 2020 #15
Yep. We just put our applications for absentee ballots in that box. CTyankee Aug 2020 #16
I sent my application too. LisaL Aug 2020 #17
I trust that the city of New Haven is doing the right thing here, or as best as they can. CTyankee Aug 2020 #18
You still have to get this ballot delivered to you. LisaL Aug 2020 #11
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