Trump Falsely Claims That Votes Shouldn't Be Counted After Election Day

[floridafan]

President Trump is doubling down on claims that the results of the presidential election must be known on election night, falsely asserting "that's the way it's been and that's the way it should be."

Speaking to reporters after arriving in North Carolina on Sunday evening during a campaign swing, Trump repeatedly called a recent Supreme Court decision on absentee ballots "terrible." The decision allows election officials in Pennsylvania to count absentee ballots received as late as Friday as long as they are postmarked by Nov. 3.

The president denied that he would try to declare victory prematurely.

But then he still raised doubts about counting votes beyond Election Day, even though in any election, it typically takes longer to count absentee ballots that by law count just the same as votes cast in person. More of those ballots are being cast this year because of the pandemic.

"I think it's a terrible thing when people or states are allowed to tabulate ballots for a long period of time after the election is over," Trump said. "I think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern-day age of computers."

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https://www.npr.org/2020/11/01/9301...t-votes-shouldnt-be-counted-after-election-da

 

[Trumpet]

This demonstrates just how desperate and delusional that Crazy Trump is.

 

[floridafan]

Think of all he members of the military whose proper votes wont count.

 

[Tacomaman]

Simply more tRump mouth diarrhea.

 

[Nordberg]

Bush-Gore was decided Dec. 12th, wrongly. But they were counting until then.
The point is to do the best to count every vote , not just the ones for Trump.

 

[zymurgy]

ballots without a postmark would "be presumed to have been mailed by Election Day"

That is the gripe - but NPR - being fake news, glossed over the actual part of the decision that makes us unhappy.

 

[archives]

President Trump is doubling down on claims that the results of the presidential election must be known on election night, falsely asserting "that's the way it's been and that's the way it should be."

Speaking to reporters after arriving in North Carolina on Sunday evening during a campaign swing, Trump repeatedly called a recent Supreme Court decision on absentee ballots "terrible." The decision allows election officials in Pennsylvania to count absentee ballots received as late as Friday as long as they are postmarked by Nov. 3.

The president denied that he would try to declare victory prematurely.

But then he still raised doubts about counting votes beyond Election Day, even though in any election, it typically takes longer to count absentee ballots that by law count just the same as votes cast in person. More of those ballots are being cast this year because of the pandemic.

"I think it's a terrible thing when people or states are allowed to tabulate ballots for a long period of time after the election is over," Trump said. "I think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern-day age of computers."

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https://www.npr.org/2020/11/01/9301...t-votes-shouldnt-be-counted-after-election-da

All done by design, he is just laying the groundwork for him to litigate the hell out of the election, the right wing media will echo the same and it will become gospel to the base so they will eagerly accept any action Trump takes post election

 

[Tacomaman]

Bush-Gore was decided Dec. 12th, wrongly. But they were counting until then.
The point is to do the best to count every vote , not just the ones for Trump.

Years after her retirement, Justice O'Connor-whose vote essentially stopped the recount in Fla-said it was the worst decision that she ever made while on the court.

 

[zymurgy]

All done by design, he is just laying the groundwork for him to litigate the hell out of the election, the right wing media will echo the same and it will become gospel to the base so they will eagerly accept any action Trump takes post election

the fact is - this is the first election where an absentee ballot received after the election would still be counted.

previously, they would all be provisional, and only looked at if the election was within a margin of error.

 

[Tacomaman]

ballots without a postmark would "be presumed to have been mailed by Election Day"

That is the gripe - but NPR - being fake news, glossed over the actual part of the decision that makes us unhappy.

Now NPR is "Fake News" as compared to that honest bastion of bipartisan news called Fox......lmao

 

[archives]

ballots without a postmark would "be presumed to have been mailed by Election Day"

That is the gripe - but NPR - being fake news, glossed over the actual part of the decision that makes us unhappy.

If received within three days after the election, by 11/6, giving the current efficiency of the PO, thanks in part to Trump, how is this unreasonable? And the GOP position would mean any ballot received later than closing time on Election Day would be discarded, meaning if some citizen votes and mailed his ballot on Election Day it would not count

 

[Tacomaman]

All done by design, he is just laying the groundwork for him to litigate the hell out of the election, the right wing media will echo the same and it will become gospel to the base so they will eagerly accept any action Trump takes post election

tRump started "conditioning" these mindless morons in 2015.
tRump rings the bell. His minions start drooling.

 

[archives]

the fact is - this is the first election where an absentee ballot received after the election would still be counted.

previously, they would all be provisional, and only looked at if the election was within a margin of error.

Also the first election highlighted by a virus spread thru social contact killing Americans, just as military ballots often fall outside of the normal guidelines, why wouldn’t a generational crisis as a pandemic be offered the same consideration?

 

[zymurgy]

Now NPR is "Fake News" as compared to that honest bastion of bipartisan news called Fox......lmao

they have become an arm of the DNC - they hide the news that they know is bad for their side - ballots without a postmark would "be presumed to have been mailed by Election Day"

The majority of Americans do not agree with that, and would agree with Trump that it was a bad decision.