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USA Election Day 2022 Megathread

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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Given that elections in Nevada are an obvious shitshow, I wouldn’t call any accusation which fits the observed events ‘unfounded’. I mean, sure, poorly evidenced, conspiracy theory, etc are very likely applicable and useful terms.

And obviously yes. When either party loses a close(or even not so close) election they claim the other party stole it. Usually as a postulate evidenced more with thought experiments and hypotheticals than records and confirmed events. Whether it’s democrats claiming voter suppression or republicans crying fraud this is probably not good for democracy.

Of course, obviously the best course of action for everyone is to go to pre-2020 voting laws. If I had my way it would be ‘ok, Covid is over, voting laws are officially restored to what they were Jan 1 2020.’ And then we would know who our senators from Arizona and Nevada are. Seriously these states used to be competent at counting votes, and they clearly have not figured out the universal mail in thing yet.

I doubt there's any going back to all day-of voting. Even Florida offers early voting that's flexible to anywhere in your county, run by the county itself, sometimes every day for 10 days before the election.

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