#ballot counting

[tomorrowusa]

Resources for Poll Closing Times 🕣 🗳

If you miss Net 1.0 you'll be happy to see that it lives on at this no nonsense site.

The Green Papers: 2024 Poll Closing Times for Statewide offices and Congress General Election Chronologically

First of all, it seems to have nothing to do with the useless Green Party despite the Green in the name.

The updated site, going strong for about 25 years, gives us the closing times converted into each US time zone – plus UTC/GMT. It even pays attention to states which are located in more than one time zone – hence more than one listing for some states. Those of us who have chafed under Eastern Zone hegemony need not do any converting here. 🙂

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This from Slate is a bit more typical as it includes analysis and commentary – not just times (which are all given only in Eastern).

An Hour-by-Hour Guide to What We’ll Probably Learn on Election Night

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The National Conference of State Legislatures has a listing of when each state begins processing and counting its absentee and mail-in ballots. They provide an explanation of the differences between processing and counting. Some states are prompt in counting these, others – not so much.

Table 16: When Absentee/Mail Ballot Processing and Counting Can Begin

A useful table but I often get 524 error codes there. Possibly a result of heavy volume which they're not used to getting. Fortunately, there's a recent archiving of this page at Internet Archive.

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Polls in Georgia close at 0000 UTC/GMT (6 PM CST). They close in North Carolina 30 minutes later. Both states should have discernible results relatively quickly. Biden narrowly won Georgia and Trump narrowly won North Carolina in 2020. So results for 2024 could be compared against those as they come in.

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[jjskiaraa]

You know what I cannot wait for? The day we have an election and we don’t have to say vote like your life depends on it because it does. This man has seeped into every facet of our lives for almost TEN years. Think about that. With one simple vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz he’s cooked-forever, and we won’t have to deal with that urgency again. We can have real policy debates and make actual progress again, once he is gone for good. So let’s do this thing one last time let’s vote like our lives depend on it and get back a better politic.

[chipper-smol]

vibes for tonight 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[batcavescolony]

It's not over, till it's over.

[originalleftist]

Imagine waking up to an America that has elected its first woman President. An America that will continue trying to make things at least a little easier for everyone, and not just those who are rich. And an America where we know that we will NEVER have to worry about the orange man ever again.

Let's make that happen.

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[emilianadarling]

The Pennsylvania Senate race is still too close to call.

While it's unlikely to affect the presidential race, I hope Americans are aware that the NBC decision desk (pictured above) and New York Times decision desk have not yet called the Pennsylvania Senate race between McCormick (R) and Casey (D), deeming it still too close to call. The AP called the race for McCormick on Wednesday November 7, citing a 30,000 vote margin between the candidates with an estimated 91,000 votes remaining to count -- the rationale being that there were not enough potential votes left in areas favouring Casey to make a difference.

Since then:

The number of estimated votes left to count has been updated by PA from 91,000 to at least 100,000 per a Thursday announcement from the PA Secretary of State, including provisional, military, overseas, and some Election Day votes;

McCormick has filed multiple lawsuits in an attempt to prevent or limit continue counting of provisional ballots, some of which have now by Friday been withdrawn or dismissed;

Efforts from a group called "PA Fair Elections" to challenge 4,000 mail-in ballots (mostly from overseas or military voters) have now all been withdrawn or dismissed. A number of these challenges had previously been flagged both by the media and by individual voters. (Screenshots of these challenge emails being circulated on tumblr alongside accusations of 'cheating' -- in the end these challenges were made in bad faith, but technically made and ultimately dismissed through legal means.)

This DOES NOT MEAN that the Pennsylvania Senate seat is in any way guaranteed to flip once all the remaining votes are counted. The race is extremely close -- enough so that the AP is confident standing by its call.

What it DOES mean is that the votes have not yet finished being counted, and that it is not yet truly known who will have the most votes in the end. Although McCormick has already declared victory, Casey (in my view very reasonably and wisely) has not yet conceded and is calling for all votes to be counted.

By Pennsylvania law, a recount must occur if the race is within 0.5%. It's looking likely that this will occur. While recounts rarely change the outcome unless results are truly within the main of a handful of votes, they are an important tool for ensuring confidence in the final results.

I know that people are grieving and demoralized right now, but these tight margin races are CRITICAL for determining how large the margin of victory will be for Democrats to flip the Senate in future elections. (Assuming future electing aren't subverted or dismantled somehow by a second Trump administration, but we have to hold out hope for institutional residence here.) The outcome of this and other right Senate and House races may have enormous consequences in a few years, and it would be agonizing to look back and realize that the window of opportunity to ensure a fair outcome had been squandered.

So -- what can Americans do?

Send a note to Bob Casey and his team via his campaign website in support of his efforts to ensure all votes are counted (particularly given the legal challenges from the Republican candidate and Republican-aligned groups) and decision to wait to concede until all votes are counted. The man is getting dragged in Conservative media in particular for 'refusing to concede'; add your voice to the people validating that decision as both reasonable and moral.

Keep an eye on this race as the counting (and potential recounting) proceeds, including any further legal challenges attempting to prevent or limit the counting of all ballots. Regardless of the outcome, all eligible votes MUST BE COUNTED. To do otherwise would be both subversion if democracy and an stoicism legal precedent for future elections.

Watch for other legal challenges, particularly in battleground states or right races, seeking to disqualify or prevent the counting of ballots. Look for credible sources, especially local ones. Make noise about them with cited sources if you think there is a risk they may be missed. Notify groups like Democracy Docket or the American Civil Liberties Union if you have concerns. Shared truth and shared confidence in the legitimacy of election results -- including that all eligible votes are counted -- is essential for democracy to function.

Push back on claims that the election results are fully known or finalized. With multiple House races still undecided and a few razor-thin margin Senate races with ballots remaining to be counted, those kind of statements are simply not true. And state-level race are inherently more likely to not make it onto people's radar than the presidential race if candidates try to make it so certain ballots aren't counted or contesting the results if a tight race flips.

There is only a very small window post-election to ensure things like outstanding legal challenges over whether certain ballots can be included in the count are resolved. Please stay alert and do not let that window close without doing all you can to ensure every eligible ballot is counted -- particularly in those tight, tight down-ballot races. 🙏

Note: This post should be accurate as of the end of day on Friday, November 9. Once the results of the PA Senate race are known and truly final, I will update this pay with the results.

UPDATE: As of November 22, Bob Casey (D) has now officially conceded the Pennsylvania Senate race to Dave McCormick (R).

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[ineffablelara]

Something about Thomas and all of the other Cardinals of the curia putting the church and its reputation above almost everything else, almost above God Himself, something about the Cardinals trying to become pope because bc then they could shape the church in the way they want, something about not a single one of them being actually worthy of the papacy or knowing what it truly means

Something about Benítez caring more about God than about the church, something about him saying in the book that he felt more likely to encounter the embodiment of the holy spirit in those countless women who were victims of sexual violence whom he helped than he did in the church itself, something about him serving his ministery in those remote, violent places because that's where he truly saw the face of God

Something about Benítez getting stuck in Rome by the end of the story, unable to ever go back to his mission, to the places he believed he was going to live until the Lord called him back home, sure, as pope he could do much, much more to help those people, but still, it would never be the same, and he knew it

Nothing would ever be the same again, and he could do nothing but accept it 🥲

[notaplaceofhonour]

yeah no I don’t think a “blue surge” could win this at this point.

racism, misogyny, and stupidity won.

[thashining]

Even MAGA thought she was gonna win, out there burning ballots...

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[watchmewhirl]

Come on tumblr, save the town.

[neenarchive]

a second trump term is crazy actually though like wasn't he going to prison

[monstrousproductions]

📢✨Podcast fans! The Guardian are asking for nominations of your favourite new podcasts you've been listening to in 2024. They'll be running a selection of recommendations in December, so take a moment and give your favourite audio drama of the year a chance at getting a shout-out in a major paper! (Especially if your favourite audio drama of the year happens to be, say, Travelling Light... 💅🚀)

[dentist-brainsurgeon]

Quit doomscrolling besties

I am not asking

[diviedrawn]

Congrats America, you fucked us over by choosing the convict

I’m going to bed, wake me up when these next 4 years of hell are over

[trippymockingquake]

For the love of god for everyone on tumblr right now stop saying sorry for our loss. The election has not been 100% counted. There are still mail in ballots and absentee ballots that need to be counted and most of the big cities are not down counting! It would be nice if you all would send us positive energy or a prayer circle, or whatever you tend to do. AP can be premature in calling the race.

Should these cult leaders win which we won’t officially know until Saturday or next week. It would be nice if some of our foreign friends could enlighten us on safe place for lgbt individuals, non-white individuals, and females. What jobs do you know of that need English speakers, where can individuals apply, how long do work visas take, and what’s the citizenship process. Those that can move will need to know and so will those that will be applying for jobs and colleges soon would likely love to know. Not all of us can move but if the younger generation can go to college outside the US they will. For those of us looking for jobs it becomes tricky but for those that can move to another country it would be good to know these things as well. This is in the worse case scenario, I’m holding out hope that this stupid country doesn’t let the felon win again. So pray, send positive energies, do whatever it is you do that could give us some positive energies.