Tuesday November 8, 2022 is Election Day in the United States of America. In addition to Congressional "midterms" at the federal level, many state governors and other more local offices are up for grabs. Given how things shook out over Election Day 2020, things could get a little crazy.
...or, perhaps, not! But here's the Megathread for if they do. Talk about your local concerns, your national predictions, your suspicions re: election fraud and interference, how you plan to vote, anything election related is welcome here. Culture War thread rules apply, with the addition of Small-Scale Questions and election-related "Bare Links" allowed in this thread only (unfortunately, there will not be a subthread repository due to current technical limitations).
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SubthreadMosh PitI will listen to allegations of fraud, dismissal of potential fraud, and attempted refutation of fraud here. Show receipts to add spice.
New York Times is on the beat.
The Maricopa County shitshow: the alt-right and conspiracy boards were lighting up about Dominion vote tabulators not accepting ballots in a big Republican section of Arizona.
Detroit voters were stunned to be told they’d already voted absentee.
Some Pennsylvania voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected for errors were notified in time to cast an in-person ballot, some weren’t notified, and some were told they couldn’t cast a provisional ballot to replace it.
All in all, “red wave barely a ripple, Trumpism refuted, cope and seethe more” will once again be met with “y’all cheated, just give us a year to figure out how.”
Browsing red-leaning spaces I'm already seeing demands for an inquest, and suggestions that Florida just so happened to see significant GOP gains around the same time they started to crack down on election integrity as evidence that "Yes, the Dems have been cheating" and that the vehemence of their opposition to similar measures elsewhere and attempts to tar anyone who questions observed irregularities as an "election denier" as evidence that this is not an isolated incident but explicit policy at the national committee level.
If nothing else, the alacrity of the count in Florida should call other states methodology into question. Even granting partisanship, it seems hard to make a serious argument that taking a long time to count votes is good, actually.
That's a lost cause in some places, though. All the election deniers in 2020 pointed to Florida and wondered why Pennsylvania couldn't have their counts done as fast. The state responded that Florida allows precanvassing and Democrats tried to get a precanvassing bill passed but Republicans in the state legislature were more interested in trying to get the mail-in vote law that they unanimously supported in 2019 repealed than in trying to make Pennsylvania's laws more in line with Florida's. This is pretty much a lost cause now with Shapiro winning the election, and with Democrats making gains in the state legislature there may be some movement on a precanvassing law in the future.
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