When are the results of early voting going to be officially released?
Early votes will be counted on November 4 with the other votes. Absentee ballots are usually not counted unless they could change the outcome. Example, if the vote is 19000 to 20000 and there's only 500 absentee ballots they don't bother, but if there's 2000 absentee ballots they open them and add to the totals.
If you had to pick a single factor, what will determine outcome of Pres. BETWEEN NOW and ELECTION DAY?
If you had to pick a single factor, what will determine outcome of Pres. election? a. Performance of the candidates at the next Debate? b. get-out-the-vote successes? c. early voting rates? d. advertising dollars? d. something else? Why do you think so? Please no partisan bullcrap in your answer!!!!!!!! I'm looking for an answer that the parties' strategists at HQ could be working on CURRENTLY, not just whether one candidate did a good job in office or the other has different ideas, etc.
What is the voting procedure in the United States?
A few years ago, to increase voter turn-out, some states started "early voting." Not all states have this. It really makes in convenient for those of us who do not have time to wait in the long lines on election day. Election day is always the first tuesday of November. For my state early voting is the prior 17 days before election day, ending on the Friday before the actual day. Voting is not mandatory, which explains why America has one of the worst voter turn-outs of all the democratic nations. Employers are supposed to give you time to go vote on election day, but only if your shift is entirely within the voting hours. Since most people don't work from 5am until 8pm, there is usually enough time to get to the polls. I voted early. I'm glad cause this year the lines are sure to be VERY long! Which is a good thing!
Have you already determined who you will not vote for in 2020?
I don’t think I can do that…yet! The simple reason I cannot determine who I will vote for is that I don’t know who will be running on either side. I’m fairly certain that the current incumbent won’t be running again. Unless no Republican is willing to run against him, I don’t think Donald Trump will get past the primaries, let along be nominated by the Republican Party.On the other side, where my vote would ordinarily lie, I’m still looking for my party to work through the mess of candidates to settle on one who can both win and govern. That’s a difficult task. I don’t believe that any of the three current elderly candidates (Biden, Warren, and Sander) have either the intellectual flexibility or the physical vigor to be president. And I don’t think O’Rourke has the requisite experience.My own preference would be a center-left Democrat with a legislative and governance background. That would mean, perhaps, a person who has been the governor of a major state with a record of strong leadership and clear thinking.So the answer to your question is, “No! I don’t know who I’ll vote for in 2020.”
What difference does it make between a voter who simply does not cast his vote and a voter choosing the option NOTA while voting? Either way, are not both wasting their voting powers?
Which number is bigger – 1.4 or 24 ? Your obvious answer would be 24. But, what if I say that 1.4 is bigger than 24? Don’t trust me? It is true. This is the NOTA effect which reverses the importance of these numbers.In the recent elections, 76% of the voters voted in Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, meaning thereby that 24% voters did NOT vote. On the other hand, a total of 1.4% people voted for NOTA.Now, did you hear anybody say that if these 24% (who did not vote) voters had voted, then BJP would have won in M.P.?But, immediately after the election result were declared, I had said in one of my answers that one of the main factors leading to loss of BJP in M.P. was high number of 1.4% voters voting for NOTA (because BJP lost narrowly even though it got 0.1% more votes than Congress). A large number of analysts are saying the same thing.So, why are people not talking about 24% voters who did not vote? But, everybody is talking about 1.4% voters who voted for NOTA?This, then, is the difference between NOTA voters and those who do not vote at all.This is despite the fact that both are wasting their voting power. In both cases, their votes are not counted for any purpose for deciding the winning candidate.Yet, NOTA is a powerful weapon in the hands of the voters to show their displeasure to the ruling party. Merely 1.4% people voting for NOTA have raised alarm bells for the ruling party.But, even though 24% voters had not come out to vote and had enjoyed the holiday on the polling day, (the then) ruling party is not bothered much.Now, just imagine, if these figures are reversed, i.e., if 24% people had voted for NOTA and only 1.4% people had not come to vote? The ruling party would have been completely shaken!!! It might have changed many of its policies!!!So, friend, NOTA is powerful even though the NOTA vote is not counted to decide the winning candidate.
Do you think people will eventually realize their mistake in voting for Trump?
Thank you for the A2A: Oh, yes. I fear they will be maneuvered towards “blaming the Democrats”, but his constituency will be mad at not getting what they thought they were going to get. I do think we’ll see Pence as Prez sooner than later. The big issue, I think, is whether the Trump base (the people) will ever come to realize that they’re being conned. Again and again. They desperately want things to be different, so calling on old-time Southern racist xenophobia works - it’s in the ground water of the country - but I am hoping that the increasing shrillness is an indication of having to turn up the propaganda so they don’t think too much.A certain percentage - 25% of the country? - is going to love him until the end of time unless he is caught having gay sex or saying something believable and nice about black people. I don’t think they’ll go anywhere otherwise, he (they think) is a white supremacist. Seriously. I think he’s too much of a narcissist to be anything (you do have to be aware of others to be a racist), but they think he is.The other 25% that voted for him… yeah, maybe they’ll wake up. I’m reading something very interesting that talks about how conflicts are really between old ways that exploit and new ways that don’t. Not left/right, none of that nonsense. Heavy conventionality that says (subliminally) “yes, but we’ll exploit you less!”. So you buy into the status quo. But I do think that other 25% wants much the same as the other 50% - they just are being herded into things that don’t benefit them.Depends - he could easily become a martyr. That will only prolong things. But people are going to want a minimum standard of living and health - and everybody agrees with that (sans minorities for some). THAT will be the big ugly when the overwhelming majority demand that. They already have - they just don’t know it. Whether they do end up knowing it, I don’t know when. 5 years, 10 years… what Trump represents will continue to get the hard press from the powers-that-be.