(11-05-2020, 01:52 PM)Au165 Wrote: If you guys needed another reason to hate Pittsburgh...they aren't counting their remaining votes until tomorrow.

Quote:MSNBC host Joy Reid said Wednesday that “there’s a great amount of racism and anti-blackness” in the United States, as made evident by the close presidential race, which she called “disappointing.”

“I think partly because we knew the red wave was a thing, the red mirage, I should say, we all knew it was coming,” Reid told host Rachel Maddow. “In the moment, it’s aggravating. And I think partly, and I said this last night, I do think it’s because we’ve been reporting for five years, Rachel, about Russia … undermining our national security, the impeachment, the racism, the Nazis, all of it and then COVID laying on top of it, [it] felt like a repudiation was coming.”

“I think even though we intellectually understand what America is at its base, right?” she said. “That there is a great amount of racism, anti-blackness, anti-wokeness, this idea that political correctness is some scheme to destroy white America, right?”

She continued: “We know what this country is, but still part of you, I think part of your heart says, you know what, maybe the country’s going to pay off all of this pain, the children that were stolen with a repudiation. And as the night wore on and I realized and it sunk in, okay, that’s not happening, we are still who we thought, unfortunately.”
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“It’s disappointing. And I emerged from this disappointed,” she added.

Reid’s diagnosis of the election is contradicted by exit poll figures, which show that Trump garnered a larger share of the non-white vote than any Republican presidential candidate since 1960. Trump expanded his margins relative to 2016 with black males and females, latino males and females, and gay voters; the only demographic in which he lost voters was white males.

Reid’s comments came late Wednesday after she had landed in hot water earlier in the day for calling Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, “Uncle Clarence,” repurposing the “Uncle Tom” slur in reference to the justice.

Quote:Election observer says no evidence for Trump’s fraud claims

BERLIN (AP) — The head of an international delegation monitoring the U.S. election says his team has no evidence to support President Donald Trump’s claims about alleged fraud involving mail-in absentee ballots.


Michael Georg Link, a German lawmaker who heads an observer mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, told German public broadcaster rbb Thursday that “on the election day itself, we couldn’t see any violations” at the U.S. polling places they visited.

Link said he was “very surprised” by Trump’s claims about postal ballot fraud because the United States has a long history of this method of voting going back to the 19th century.

“We looked into this. We found no violations of the rules whatsoever,” Link told rbb.

He said neither U.S. election observers nor media found any evidence of fraud either, though the OSCE team on Wednesday repeated long-standing concerns about disenfranchisement of some voters and the distorting effects of campaign finance laws.

Link said there were some instances of errors being made “but no systemic interference or even manipulation with the postal ballots whatsoever.”

Trump has for weeks argued that mail voting is prone to fraud. On Wednesday morning, with his lead in key battlegrounds slipping, Trump claimed efforts were being made to steal his victory and prematurely declared himself the winner.

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“That is something that does need to be described as breaking a taboo,” Link said of Trump’s effort to stop the count. “He has neither the right nor the possibility to do this. Responsibility for the count lies exclusively with states.”

The Vienna-based OSCE, of which the United States is a member, conducts observer missions at major elections in all of its member countries.

(11-05-2020, 02:48 PM)Au165 Wrote: https://apnews.com/article/election-observer-no-evidence-fraud-b30f3424736014a6b7405df71e32e36f

Quote:Georgia judge throws out Trump campaign lawsuit on absentee ballots

A judge in Georgia on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit from the Trump campaign over the state's handling of absentee ballots just hours after it was filed in Chatham County court.

Chatham County Superior Court Judge James Bass dismissed the lawsuit following an hourlong hearing.
President Trump's campaign filed the lawsuit against the Chatham County Board of Elections Wednesday evening, alleging that a witness had said that late-arriving ballots had not been properly stored and may have been mixed in with timely ballots.

"Having read and considered said petition, all argument and evidence of record, including the evidence presented at the hearing, and the applicable law, the Court finds that there is no evidence that the ballots referenced in the petition were received after 7:00 p.m. on election day, thereby making those ballots invalid," Bass said in a brief, one-paragraph decision.

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"Additionally, there is no evidence that the Chatham County Board of Elections or the Chatham County Board of Registrars has failed to comply with the law."

Georgia will only accept ballots that were received before 7 p.m. on Election Day.

As of Thursday afternoon, Trump held a narrowing lead in Georgia over former Vice President [url=https://thehill.com/people/joe-biden]Joe Biden of less than 15,000 votes amid the ongoing count.

(11-05-2020, 03:14 PM)michaelsean Wrote: So a coworker told me he heard that observers were being kept thirty feet away and then a court said they had to allow them six feet away so they marked six feet and then moved the machines. I think it was in Philly. I just roll with it and say, “oh wow” but does anyone know where this is coming from?  Is it in a lawsuit?

(11-05-2020, 03:19 PM)Nately120 Wrote: That sounds pretty bizarre, plus doing anything upon which the Trump team can call foul on seems like a bad idea.

(11-05-2020, 03:21 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I don’t believe, but I was just curious where it even originated.

(11-05-2020, 03:22 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I wasn't saying you were giving it the Michelsean LOCK of the week, but I get what you're saying.  Weird stuff out there, man.

(11-05-2020, 03:26 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Just making sure my position was clear.  

(11-05-2020, 03:49 PM)Arturo Bandini Wrote: Biden is going to take all the remaining states.

I'm wondering how much of impact can have the congratulations to president elect Biden from foreign leaders.

(11-05-2020, 03:53 PM)GMDino Wrote: Multiple Trump tweets have been flagged by Twitter for potentially containing false information so they did this instead:

Statement from President @realDonaldTrump ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/a5sp4M1AOS

— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) November 5, 2020