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It is very strange that the swing state votes take so long to count

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Then be consistent and don't give Biden an entire state with 0% of the votes in. Or give Trump the states with 95+% reported and he's leading.

Consistency.

can you give any examples of states right now with 0? And ummmm why would anyone give PA or GA to trump? GA is just under 2k votes needed for biden with around 16k votes left, and PA it's the same thing, given the amount of votes left and the % that have been going to biden he has a good chance to win.

Just have to look at Arizona, where trump is doing the same thing, biden's in the lead but trumps narrowing the lead and could win it.
 
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Ultimately, whether Republican or Democrat, it is how close or not close it is, etc, and "that's it", etc...

And it's just "that simple", etc, and it works for both, or does for both or both sides/ways nigh equally, etc...

God Bless!
 
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They refused to call some states for Trump, even when showing an estimate of over 90% counted, and a clear Trump lead.

You mean like Georgia where trump has lost thousands of vote lead and is now 1902 ahead.

Or PA where trumps lead of 600k is now down to 40+K? :>

Calling it doesn't mean trump wins them, the votes must be finished.
 
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Then be consistent and don't give Biden an entire state with 0% of the votes in. Or give Trump the states with 95+% reported and he's leading.

Consistency.
As a veteran of the Norm Coleman vs Al Franken recount debacle, they fight over EVERY ballot if it's a possible advantage to them. They challenge obviously good ballots and they presume obviously invalid ballots are good. Normal people will give and take as required. Not the Democratic Party Challenge workers. They are a tenacious lot.
 
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Right, sure, I mean the US constitution specifically says the states determine the way they collect ballots, but yeah, the federal government in a direct contravention of the constitution secretly interfered.

What a great look for the republicans.

Hmm, directly and knowingly violating the constitution to interfere in an election... that's treason, right? Or is it sedition?
If this watermark story is true, and the votes were in fact counterfeit, then the Fed needs to interfere.
 
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Then be consistent and don't give Biden an entire state with 0% of the votes in. Or give Trump the states with 95+% reported and he's leading.

Consistency.
Their methodology is consistent, but since each state is different consistent methodology yeilds different results.
 
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can you give any examples of states right now with 0? And ummmm why would anyone give PA or GA to trump? GA is just under 2k votes needed for biden with around 16k votes left, and PA it's the same thing, given the amount of votes left and the % that have been going to biden he has a good chance to win.

Just have to look at Arizona, where trump is doing the same thing, biden's in the lead but trumps narrowing the lead and could win it.
Right now? No. Election night? Yes. I was watching states flip blue on the "live election results" map all evening, with 0% votes reported.
 
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They refused to call some states for Trump, even when showing an estimate of over 90% counted, and a clear Trump lead.
Thats because they knew that the ballots still to come in were coming from blue counties. Such as GA. Leads can be erased in an election. If you were watching the analysis and looking at the math and the counties in play, you would understand this.
 
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Apparently, it's not reasonable to question why there are videos being shared of poll workers crumpling ballots, writing on ballots, dumping ballots in trash cans, setting ballots on fire, finding bins of ballots with unregistered names on them, poll watchers being denied access to ballot-counting locations, postal workers being told to date-stamp mail with the wrong date, people questioning why hundreds of thousands of ballots showed up in the dead of night only in swing states where Trump is leading by a small margin, and much more.

Totally unreasonable to be curious.

When you display no actual knowledge of that process and are just stirring the pot, then no, posting a constant stream of unsupported random social media posts and outright misinfo isn't acceptable.
 
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Then be consistent and don't give Biden an entire state with 0% of the votes in. Or give Trump the states with 95+% reported and he's leading.

Consistency.
There were also states that automatically went to Trump with 0% of the votes in also, and also states where Biden was leading, with a high percentage of votes in, but it was just still so close yet, that they were not able to determine a clear winner, or clear winners there yet, etc...

It goes both ways, etc...

You guys are ridiculous...

There is no conspiracy...

No changing peoples votes or ballots, etc, you guys are all full of crap, etc...

God Bless!
 
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Right now? No. Election night? Yes. I was watching states flip blue on the "live election results" map all evening, with 0% votes reported.

well most sites have two things, they are bright red almost impossible to lose, and light red in the lead.

Your conspiracy thinking is what will destroy the states.
 
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well most sites have two things, they are bright red almost impossible to lose, and light red in the lead.

Your conspiracy thinking is what will destroy the states.

There's no "conspiracy thinking" here. Only a wish for consistency.
 
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Then be consistent and don't give Biden an entire state with 0% of the votes in. Or give Trump the states with 95+% reported and he's leading.

Consistency.
Name a state where Biden was given a win with zero percent.

Come on. We'll wait. You haven't so far.
 
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There were also states that automatically went to Trump with 0% of the votes in also, and also states where Biden was leading, with a high percentage of votes in, but it was just still so close yet, that they were not able to determine a clear winner, or clear winners there yet, etc...

It goes both ways, etc...

You guys are ridiculous...

There is no conspiracy...

No changing peoples votes or ballots, etc, you guys are all full of crap, etc...

God Bless!
Did not see one single state go automatically to Trump at 0% reported, lol. And I was watching like a hawk. Perhaps whatever site you were privy to reported differently.
 
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Name a state where Biden was given a win with zero percent.

Come on. We'll wait. You haven't so far.
I saw Washington, Oregon, and California turn blue all at once at 11pm (when the west coast polls closed; I am on the east coast), all at 0% votes reported. Not "light" contested "we're still counting" blue, but dark "Biden wins these electoral votes" blue.

There. You can stop waiting now. You're welcome.
 
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I saw Washington, Oregon, and California turn blue all at once at 11pm (when the west coast polls closed), all at 0% votes reported. Not "light" contested blue, but dark "Biden wins these electoral votes" blue.

There. You can stop waiting now. You're welcome.

Interesting. And what channel reported this?
 
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Did not see one single state go automatically to Trump at 0% reported, lol. And I was watching like a hawk. Perhaps whatever site you were privy to reported differently.
There is no conspiracy, etc...

The/this election is very fair, but it is people like you who are going to destroy it, etc...

God Bless!
 
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I saw Washington, Oregon, and California turn blue all at once at 11pm (when the west coast polls closed; I am on the east coast), all at 0% votes reported. Not "light" contested "we're still counting" blue, but dark "Biden wins these electoral votes" blue.

There. You can stop waiting now. You're welcome.

I saw both Alabama and Mississippi do the same to Trump earlier in the night.
 
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Right now? No. Election night? Yes. I was watching states flip blue on the "live election results" map all evening, with 0% votes reported.

CNN at least bases its forecasts largely on polls, including exit polls. If the polls show that one candidate will obviously win, they'll go ahead and forecast a winner even if the vote numbers are still at 0%. The closer the candidates are in the polls, the longer they'll wait to see how the voting turns out, because as we all know the polls can be off a ways.
 
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