Why does everyone seem to think there would be someone elected?
No one other than some analysts and betting people are calling no result right now. It just seems surreal to think that an election could happen uncontested under these conditions. I'm also not bullish about courts/congress remedying the claims.
Because we've had the distinct feeling that Hillary was earmarked for the job since before the primaries? That's how it is with me. I'd never considered a non-result before. Would throw a spanner in the works. I'm expecting she'll win early and by a comfortable margin, and any quibbles about legitimacy of the vote won't get much oxygen or cause too many problems. But then, I don't exactly have my finger on the American pulse.
Well, it looks like my Florida is making things exciting once again. It's almost 9pm and 91% are in:
Trump 4,305,026
Clinton 4,193,316
Johson 189,763
Stein 58,318
BUT the news is saying that some Clinton strongholds are still reporting in (that missing 9% of votes so far) and she is winning by huge margins in places like Miami.
Re: 2016 Election Day Night
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 9:56 pm
by seemslikeadream
yea Broward ...right?
Re: 2016 Election Day Night
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:04 pm
by Novem5er
Broward, exactly. She's winning Broward by 30+ margin and they are only at about 45% counted. With a half million more votes to come in from BROWARD ALONE, it could flip the script and give Hillary the win.
Re: 2016 Election Day Night
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:20 pm
by PufPuf93
CNN has Trump with 49.3 and Clinton with 47.6 now - 93% in.
I've just seen some claims of "malfunctioning" vote machines on a Trumpite twitter account. Some of those claims are at least plausible-looking. It would be worth knowing if any analogous claims are being made by people trying to vote for Clinton, e.g. that the machine kept switching their vote to Trump.
If the machines are truly malfunctioning, then that's already bad enough. But if the malfunction always or nearly always works to the advantage of X rather than Y, then that's prima facie evidence of deliberate manipulation.