The Biden Won & it's OVER, Deep dish pizza is delicious, & Gilmore Girls is awesome thread

[MikeOberly]

Wow. I suppose he’s around the right age.

[triggercut]

(Though I guess if you’re a Cuomo, all the world is football shaped…)

[MikeOberly]

Jon Ralston (RalstonReports)

[Jaws_au]

@krayzkrok

What I didn’t expect today was learning in the QT3 Election Day thread that my secret obsession watching Gilmore Girls with my wife was actually an unwritten QT3 ritual of which I had not previously partaken.

Same! Like literally exactly this.

I told my wife about how the thread had turned into discussion on the best GG season - her response was “I bet no one said Season 7!” :)

[Canuck]

Well I’m out. It’s 12am and I’ve got to get some sleep for tomorrow. Hope all goes well!

[MrGrumpy]

David Roberts (drvox)

[charmtrap]

Season 7? I never heard of that.

[MikeOberly]

Kaitlan Collins (kaitlancollins)

[MrGrumpy]

Oh. taps fingers

[MikeOberly]

Jeremy Duda (jeremyduda)

[kerzain]

AN* HISTORIC.

SMH

[charmtrap]

Looking like this just isn’t gonna happen tonight.

[Timex]

I feel like it’s fitting that Trump’s presidency would end with him lying about winning reelection.

[Soma]

Why is Florida with ~11mil to count finished on the day, Pa with ~7 mil and Ga + NC with ~5 mil to count takes fooooreeeeever???

[kerzain]

More old people = more volunteers.

[MikeOberly]

FLA is set up to for vote by mail, the others aren’t.

[triggercut]

@Soma

Why is Florida with ~11mil to count finished on the day, Pa with ~7 mil and Ga + NC with ~5 mil to count takes fooooreeeeever???

Here you go. :)

@triggercut

Every place is a little bit different regarding the process of voting. But in general and especially in places that do a paper ballot (or paper backup), when you vote in person, either your ballot or your paper to use a touch screen has a bar code on it. That bar code is tied to you anonymously. You mark your ballot and turn it in (if you’re in a jurisdiction that doesn’t use the abomination of touch screen voting). When your ballot goes into the ballot box, the bar code is scanned, and your anonymized bar code shows that you have registered a vote. That’s it, done and dusted. You can no longer vote in that election; your ballot is in.

When those ballot boxes/receptacles go to the local election board later that day/evening, each ballot inside is scanned again, and compared to what the receptacle says should be inside. When they’re satisfied that this matches up, the actual ballot responses are scanned and tabulated.

The important thing there: these ballots are “naked”. There’s no envelope on them, and the ballot counters presume that poll workers made sure you were you when you showed up to vote. In an in-person election, they’re taking these naked ballots, scanning the bar codes to make sure the ballot count matches the receptacle, and then scanning them for the actual votes that are marked in the ovals.

With mail-in ballots, it’s different. An outside envelope is typically opened on receipt, and the inner ballot envelope is set aside until the counting begins. Once counting begins, the ballot counters will scan the envelope the way they would an in-person ballot. Then they check the signature(s) on the envelope, typically against your driver’s license. Then the envelope is opened, and the ballot inside is scanned. It’s a fast process, typically taking just seconds. BUT each of those seconds is a few seconds more than the process of just handling regular ballots from a polling place from in-person voting.

And now you multiply those extra seconds, maybe 20 or 30 or 40 ticks per ballot, times 1.5-3.5 million ballots per state in upper Midwest states. These states will be throwing raw manpower at this herculean task, but there it is.

Florida law lets them count ballots 22 days before election day, and every day as more ballots arrive.

Pennsylvania law prevents them from counting a single ballot or even opening an envelope until 7am on election day morning.

[rrmorton]

Serious professor vibes, explaining, then re-explaining.

How to MAINTAIN PATIENCE is the challenge.

[wisefool]

I sub to Daniel Dale in the hopes of catching an update on Breezy, the wonder pom.

[Grifman]

@triggercut

29,000 votes in Georgia is the margin.

Uh, don’t think so. That last batch from Fulton County posted above cut that in half. Or am I missing something?