Spyke
lemmy.world

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

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Easyreeverreply
lemmy.world

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

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

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

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

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tburkholreply
lemmy.world

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

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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.

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lemmy.world

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

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lemmy.ca

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. 🥲

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lemmy.world

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

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Drunemetonreply
lemmy.world

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

What did you hope to accomplish with your original reply?

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lemmy.world

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?

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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.

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lemmy.world

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.

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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.

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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.

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Record number of early votes cast in Georgia as election gets underway in battleground state | Spyke