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In response to "Biden needs 46 Electoral Votes based on what CNN has called. He currently has leads on 47 Electoral Votes and remaining vote count should favor him. -- nm*" by Dano

OK, thanks all. Any way to get a bit more of a leeway, since faithless electors, for instance? (NM)

Posted by Marlowe Nov 4 '20, 07:51

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States can legally tell faithless electors to get fucked now, thanks to a SCOTUS case. -- nm - Reagen Nov 4, 07:56 7
- Of all the features (some would say bugs, but whatever) of the US electoral system, this* is what mostly boggles my mind. - Marlowe Nov 4, 08:01 6
  - It was so if the people made a terrible decision the electors could “correct” it. - spamlet Nov 4, 08:13 3
    - Too sad that nobody could correct *that* terrible decision. Either you are a effing democracy or you aren't. (NM) -- nm - Marlowe Nov 4, 08:26 2
      - We're not -- nm - oblique Nov 4, 08:28 1
        
        Correct, we're a Republic of states. Until 1912 the Senate wasn't even directly elected. -- nm - spamlet Nov 4, 08:45
  - It's what you'd get if you let loose a bunch of 18th century intellectuals/drinking society to design a decision system. -- nm - Reagen Nov 4, 08:06 1
    - hilarious -- nm - mud Nov 4, 08:07
There are other states where he is currently trailing but could win based on the remaining vote counts. (Pennsylvania is the big one). -- nm - Dano Nov 4, 07:55 3
- PA numbers: 1M+ votes still to be counted. Trump leads by 500K votes. Mail-in trend is 70% Biden so far. PA is very much a possibility -- nm - decline Nov 4, 08:05 2
  - WI+MI. Screw PA :) -- nm - oblique Nov 4, 08:05 1
    - I hope that's the case -- nm - decline Nov 4, 08:07

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