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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

And they'll find a way to invalidate these or just "dispose" of them. But vote!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Wooo! Go Georgia!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Congrats to Jimmy Carter, he made it!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully he gets to see her win.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I’m roughly half his age and I’m hoping to finally see our first female president. I can only imagine how thrilled he’d be to see it happen.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

No way man.

I’m voting by mail in my underpants.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm voting in person in my underpants

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I will also be voting in person in your underpants.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I will be voting you in his underpants!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I will be voting for his underpants

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

And my ~~axe~~ ass!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I think they stayed in, and voted. These are mail-in ballots, right?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Not necessarily, early in-person and mail in is what they are talking about. Someone will correct me if I’m wrong!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Early, in person voting started today on GA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Are there some exit polls (I know, I lnow, it's not reliable) ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Someone will correct me if I’m wrong!

A true believer in Cominghome's Law.

[–] expr 2 points 19 hours ago

I actually tend to drop off my mail ballots at the local library drop box.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Glad to see Jimmy got his chance to cast his vote.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Next goal: be able to call her to offer his congratulations after the election.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Does his vote still count if he dies between now and then? One of the infamous "dead people voting."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Yes. Georgia has no specific law about this, so by default it will count. I also believe I read they can't find individual peoples votes for privacy reasons, so there is no way to pull it back.

If you can legally vote when voting opens in Georgia and do so, it will count.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago

Oh yeah that's today. He made it.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

"Record number of early votes to go uncounted in forced hand recounts which will not be achievable in the three day deadline."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That is so good to hear. Of course, it will get appealed and sent to a higher court, so we'll have to wait and see, but that's still great news. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

It's reaching the point where that won't matter.

Bush v Gore was clear regarding the Safe Harbor date. Even if the traitorous, anti-democracy assholes win on appeal, it won't matter if the election is over and the state legislature turns red and reverses the laws.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Stop what, counting ballots? I believe that is the plan, yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Are you just here to troll or what?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Sowing doubt that people's votes would count which could discourage others from voting would be my guess. I know what you said is right though. 🥲

[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yep. John Oliver covered it in detail on Sunday. I hate that it's true, but it's true.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Just because you can do a thing, doesn’t mean that you should.

What did you hope to accomplish with your original reply?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Just because you can do a thing, doesn’t mean that you should.

Sorry... do you think that there won't be hand recounts in Georgia with a maximum of three days to do it, despite the election board specifically saying the exact opposite?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

And what do you think happens when it hits Georgia Supreme? I think we've seen this show before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

A very welcome new element in this story, but as I said to someone else, it will get appealed. This is not over.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

To impart the perception of having a well informed opinion about everything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

I do not have a "well informed opinion about everything."

I just literally watched the Last Week Tonight episode that discusses this ratfuckery the Republicans are doing in Georgia four days ago.

That doesn't make me well-informed, that makes John Oliver's writers well-informed. And they literally showed clips of election workers complaining to the election board about the hand recount requirement.

I have no idea why you and the others are carrying water for GOP election officials, but you shouldn't. They're cheating right out in the open.