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Under ten thousand now. Edit - and US psephology Twitter suggests that based on what's come in and what's yet to come, Georgia should be Biden's.

You love to see it.

I would guess that it's mainly scale. Our largest constituency by people is about 110,000 and by area about 4,500 sq. miles. When you're dealing with "constituencies" of 40m people or 500,000 sq. miles then you are coming into logistical difficulties to do things quickly. If voting and counting were all done over a period of two weeks and they were counted as you went then they probably could. But that probably throws up its own problems in terms of secrecy and leaks. And I guess you make the decision that doing things properly (I know, I know...) is more important than doing things quickly. For historical context, that's exactly what they used to do. Voting went on for months, and the gap between the November election and the inauguration the following year only exists because historically the admin took so long.

That's not really his decision to make is it? States don't "call" themselves, the media does. So if the media feel that corrected and late-arriving ballots are not going to be enough to overturn a lead then they will call it. Loads of states allow ballots that arrive until November 10th to be counted, but they were called long ago (including hypothetically in-play states) because they don't think they will change the outcome.

Nevada looks fine. Rural counties chipping away a few hundred Biden votes at a time. Still lots more from Clark, so Nevada should be in the bag. Obviously shouldn't have needed to be worried about it in the first place, but all seems good there now.

First new Nevada ballots increase Biden's lead from 8,000 to 12,000

18k Trump lead, 60k votes remaining. Should be done within an hour or two apparently.

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Fly the lads from Sunderland South over. They seem to do it quickly and with no complaining.

Oh of course, that's still a thing isn't it?

See also: Hispanics may have turned away from the Democrats, but revenge is a dish best served cold. GA / AZ / PA / CO

I imagine that (assuming things now follow the script) that Trump will leave something as dignified and magnanimous as George Bush left for Bill Clinton in 1993.

I'm still expecting Ralph Nader to pop up from somewhere and lose it for Biden.

Would it be hugely surprising to learn that the Republican legislature in the relevant states refused requests to let them do so?

That weird bit of Nebraska. And I don't believe that Arizona is technically confirmed yet. Edit- as said in near identifical fashion above.

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With apologies for contributing to this thread mainly just being endless semi-amusing Twitter-takes...

Am I right that it's now more or less impossible to have the could-not-be-more-2020 scenario of the 269-269 tie?

No, if I thought that then I probably would have said that. I said that "the Qanon crap, the conspiracy theories" are likely to spiral even further out of control if he loses.

Hmm. I'd say that those things are likely to spiral even further out of control if he loses.

Good call. 70k Trump lead and an inevitable 200-300k Biden votes likely to land from Wayne County. Apparently.

"Anyone know how we could track down a photo of that West guy?"