Like everything else surrounding this, though, if they get sick they can spread it to those unrelated. so yet again, it doesn't go without punishing those that want nothing to do with the cheeto
So basically we might not know who wins for a few days, depending on how counting goes. Also, the ballots cast so far are over half of what was cast in 2016.
With a week until election day, 68.5 million votes have been cast, representing 50.2% of the 136.5 million votes in the 2016 presidential election, according to a survey of election officials in all 50 states and Washington, DC, by CNN, Edison Research and Catalist.
I’m much more concerned about this now that the Supreme Court seems to have signaled that it will discount any votes not counted by midnight on Election Day
Okay I am real confused on the supreme court thing and had to go read this to clarify. This means ballots must be collected by midnight election day to be counted. Any that are physically received will be counted. Any that are late will not.
A grand jury in Cleveland on Tuesday indicted right-wing political hoaxers Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman with felony charges connected to a multi-state robocall campaign that prosecutors say was meant to scare voters in urban areas with large minority populations out of voting by mail in the Nov. 3 presidential election.
The news and video of police officers, unable to de-escalate a situation with a member of the Black community, leading to execution-style death, has led to protests and aggression in the streets of Philadelphia. Overnight, news reports of confrontations between police and protesters filled the airwaves.
A New York City police officer is suspended without pay after videos shared over social media Saturday night appeared to show him using his patrol vehicle's speaker to say “Trump 2020.”
The four progressive congresswomen known as "the squad" on Friday urged the United Nations to investigate whether alleged forced medical procedures on migrant women amounted to human rights abuses committed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Voters in Mississippi face barriers that make it far and away the most difficult state in which to vote.
Mississippi has broad restrictions on absentee voting, no early voting or online registration, absentee ballots that must be witnessed by notaries and ID laws that overwhelmingly affect the poor and minorities.
With Amy Coney Barrett now seated on the Supreme Court, Republicans are pushing for reconsideration of a Pennsylvania case on mail-in voting -- the first potential test of how the new justice will handle election challenges.
U.S. taxpayers have paid more than $2.5 million to Mar-a-Lago and other businesses owned by President Donald Trump since 2017, the Washington Post reported, the most extensive analysis to date of how the Trump administration and campaign have become reliable paying customers for the president’s expansive and ailing businesses.
The virus is getting worse in states that the Republican president needs the most, at the least opportune time. New infections are raging in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the upper Midwest. In Iowa, polls suggest Trump is in a toss-up race with Biden after carrying the state by 9.4 percentage points four years ago.
At a rally Tuesday in Allentown, Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping prefer him to win the November election over Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
A federal judge in New York ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department cannot step in to shield President Donald Trump from a libel lawsuit filed by a woman who claims he raped her in a New York City department store more than 20 years ago.
Taylor wrote: "Issuing my critiques without attribution forced the President to answer them directly on their merits or not at all, rather than creating distractions through petty insults and name-calling."
Trump's October surprise commits the ultimate political sin—it's not just unbelievable, it's boring because it's the same schlock peddled the same way for a year with the same nada results.
Trump says plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer was ‘maybe a problem, maybe it wasn’t’ After right-wing plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, president’s supporters chant ‘Lock her up!’
A man charged in an alleged conspiracy to kidnap Michigan's governor also made threatening online comments about President Donald Trump, former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and other prominent political figures, an FBI agent said in a federal court filing.
A senior U.S. official appointed by President Donald Trump has scrapped a federal regulation designed to protect the editorial independence of Voice of America and other U.S.-funded media outlets, amid accusations he is undermining the journalistic credibility of the broadcasters.
As Politico reports, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has now issued a press release trumpeting Trump’s very special victory. According to that press release, Trump took “decisive actions to engage scientists.” This fast and fact-based action then led to Trump to “defeat of the disease.”
US stocks cratered on Wednesday as a spike in COVID-19 cases prompted new lockdowns in Europe. The Dow Jones industrial average's 3.4% decline marked its worst single-day drop since June 11, while the S&P 500's 1.9% drop was its largest since September 23.
Health officials and scientists working on the Trump administration’s coronavirus response said on Tuesday they are personally offended by the White House’s announcement that it has successfully ended the COVID-19 pandemic—a pandemic that is, in fact, worsening.
The facemask-despising owner of a martial arts school in St. Marys is enlisting like-minded science deniers to participate in mandate-defying flash mobs at Topeka and Manhattan businesses.
𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚
: So that must be why the NPR money show Marketplace was playing the sad trombones yesterday. They always get out the wahhh wahhh trombones when the stock market is in a bad way.
The drivers would have to work an average of 38 hours a week to qualify for the lowest tier plan on the Covered CA marketplace and it isn’t even a full employer contribution.
I’m voting no. I’m always suspicious of when giant corporations try to use California’s ballot initiative process to write their own laws but this is even worse than usual.
BBC staff who are required to be politically neutral have been told not to attend LGBT pride protests under new impartiality rules announced on Thursday, i has learned.
David Jordan, the corporation’s director of editorial policy and standards, told a meeting of senior executives on Wednesday that the new rules include not attending “political protests”, such as Black Lives Matter events and LGBT protests.
Trump administration officials on Thursday ended endangered species protection for gray wolves nationwide, rankling conservationists who contend wolves still are vulnerable — and raising the stakes in Colorado’s citizen-driven wolf reintroduction vote in next week’s election.
With a week until election day, 68.5 million votes have been cast, representing 50.2% of the 136.5 million votes in the 2016 presidential election, according to a survey of election officials in all 50 states and Washington, DC, by CNN, Edison Research and Catalist.Mississippi has broad restrictions on absentee voting, no early voting or online registration, absentee ballots that must be witnessed by notaries and ID laws that overwhelmingly affect the poor and minorities.
After right-wing plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, president’s supporters chant ‘Lock her up!’
Cindy answered that she wants to increase the military.
The Dow Jones industrial average's 3.4% decline marked its worst single-day drop since June 11, while the S&P 500's 1.9% drop was its largest since September 23.