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[2020 Election] Math is Dead

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular


    Rick Santorum?!?!? with an important fact check for our worries about ratfucking:

    Even IF the Pennsylvania vote was somehow invalidated, Penn state law is that then the electors would automatically go to the winner of the nationwide popular vote. The Pennsylvania legislature has zero control over how electors are assigned.

    Soo basically if Trump succeeded in invalidating the results, it would seal Biden's victory. l o l

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    donald trump, math, and now junk philosophy?

    thanks guys, now I can go to bed comfortable in the fact that there is nothing I need to stay up for!

    night all! hopefully later today will go well

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User regular
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    The gist of most of Zeno's paradoxes is that if you break down the movement of an object into increasingly smaller increments, the object cannot reach its goal unless you repeat the incremental periods an infinite amount of times (which is impossible for humans to calculate). Like, to get from point A to Point B, first you must get to 1/2 the distance, then another 1/4 of the distance, then another 1/8 of the distance, etc. You never reach B if you have to keep calculating the incremental fractions.

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  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    moniker wrote: »
    I strongly disagree, Trump is a cult of personality, he is going to wrap himself in a persecution complex and I'd lay money that he's still going to draw massive crowds

    The entire Fascist mindset before taking power is that they were in power in the past because they deserve to be and some degenerates stole what is theirs. What we are witnessing is a possible origin story for a fascist party in the next few years.

    Not sure how we stop it though since the accusations of cheating are based on literally nothing.

    Win again.

    Our democracy is breaking down and right wing terrorism is on the rise already. A bunch of chucklefucks crowing “civil war” and even real politicians implying this election is illegitimate. Fascists don’t need to win an election to take power and they don’t need to take power to be trouble. if Trump decides to make a stink about this and enough people follow him bad things will happen.

    “Win again” isn’t really an answer to that.

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  • Fleur de AlysFleur de Alys Biohacker Registered User regular
    edited November 2020
    The mathematical solution to those paradoxes is in basic Calculus

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  • kimekime Queen of Blades Registered User regular
    Inkstain82 wrote: »
    Inkstain82 wrote: »
    I strongly disagree, Trump is a cult of personality, he is going to wrap himself in a persecution complex and I'd lay money that he's still going to draw massive crowds

    The entire Fascist mindset before taking power is that they were in power in the past because they deserve to be and some degenerates stole what is theirs. What we are witnessing is a possible origin story for a fascist party in the next few years.

    Not sure how we stop it though since the accusations of cheating are based on literally nothing.

    I hate to say it, because it won’t be popular, but the best way to fend off fascism globally has been for the left and non-fascist center-right to work together. I don’t know how feasible that is in the US.

    IMO, you're describing the modern Democratic Party.


    See, I knew that would be the response. But if you really want to make sure the fascist uprising is stamped out, you would have to eat some real, true shitburgers like allying with someone like Romney or even Rubio.

    If that’s unpalatable to the American left, and I’m pretty sure it is, then you just have to make sure you don’t lose. We didn’t lose this time, soon we can start working on next time.

    Or, like, Kasich? And inviting him to speak at the Democratic party's largest event?

    The problem with Romney isn't us.

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  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    Kana wrote: »


    Rick Santorum?!?!? with an important fact check for our worries about ratfucking:

    Even IF the Pennsylvania vote was somehow invalidated, Penn state law is that then the electors would automatically go to the winner of the nationwide popular vote. The Pennsylvania legislature has zero control over how electors are assigned.

    Soo basically if Trump succeeded in invalidating the results, it would seal Biden's victory. l o l

    the tweet says that it's the popular vote in PA, not nationwide

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

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  • TaximesTaximes Registered User regular
    Corvus wrote: »
    Assuming this works out for Biden, I fully expect that Trump and his kids will claim the election was stolen for the rest of their lives.

    I agree, but I think that was always the inevitable conclusion of any Biden win. Or literally any outcome of this election. We already know the fuckin guy loves to wail about cheating even when he pulls off a surprise upset.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    The mathematical solution to those paradoxes is in basic Calculus

    Nobody ever accused Zeno of being good at math.

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  • htmhtm Registered User regular
    Inkstain82 wrote: »
    https://mobile.twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1324588693923995649

    Another tiny Georgia update nets 300. The closer we get, the smaller the updates

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  • milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    The mathematical solution to those paradoxes is in basic Calculus

    Which was notably not around for Zeno, and why the paradoxes aren't that stupid. They weren't so much "motion doesn't exist" as they were "wait, an infinite sum of smaller and smaller times seems like it would be infinite time, so that would mean the math says motion doesn't work, but motion clearly works."

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  • Monkey Ball WarriorMonkey Ball Warrior A collection of mediocre hats Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited November 2020
    I'm suppressing the urge to talk at length about convergent infinite series because, no, that's not how elections are supposed to work. You can't count half a ballot.

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    The mathematical solution to those paradoxes is in basic Calculus

    Nobody ever accused Zeno of being good at math.

    Reading up on them it does seem like he was grappling with infinite sets and limits without having the language or ability to manipulate them.

  • ElJeffeElJeffe Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited November 2020
    Things that are obviously off topic here:

    The rise of fascism
    Putin
    Zeno
    Relativity
    Limit problems
    Trump's finances
    How long it would take Putin to shoot an arrow at Deutsch Bank

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  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    edited November 2020
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

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  • LoserForHireXLoserForHireX Philosopher King The AcademyRegistered User regular
    The arrow paradox was specifically about the illusion of motion and was only really solved with relativity, from what I can remember of my PHL 110 class

    it's solved with calculus

    the problem is that you can't add an infinite number of things together, you'll never reach the end

    aristotle had a solution by talking about the difference between potential infinities and actual infinities. zeno's paradoxes grasp potential infinities, you can potentially divide a distance an infinite number of times, or potentially have to reach an infinite number of midpoints. it's not total satisfying but it was accepted until calculus just went and showed how to add the infinite number of numbers between 0 and 1 to get 1.

    zeno's paradoxes are interesting relics of an age, but they are mostly illuminating of how different our assumptions about the world are due to our increase in general knowledge. in much the same way as the Parmenidian problem of motion doesn't hold water anymore.

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  • SchrodingerSchrodinger Registered User regular
    Um can someone explain Zeno's paradox?

    Is .999999 repeating to infinity equal to 1?

  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    moniker wrote: »
    I strongly disagree, Trump is a cult of personality, he is going to wrap himself in a persecution complex and I'd lay money that he's still going to draw massive crowds

    The entire Fascist mindset before taking power is that they were in power in the past because they deserve to be and some degenerates stole what is theirs. What we are witnessing is a possible origin story for a fascist party in the next few years.

    Not sure how we stop it though since the accusations of cheating are based on literally nothing.

    Win again.

    Our democracy is breaking down and right wing terrorism is on the rise already. A bunch of chucklefucks crowing “civil war” and even real politicians implying this election is illegitimate. Fascists don’t need to win an election to take power and they don’t need to take power to be trouble. if Trump decides to make a stink about this and enough people follow him bad things will happen.

    “Win again” isn’t really an answer to that.

    And the sun could explode tomorrow. No more elections.

    Stop trying to win the imaginary civil war battles 6 months from now. This isn't 4D chess.

  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    edited November 2020
    Leftists have been trying to work with moderates for quite some time. Not all of us obviously but it is still pretty galling to constantly be told we need to work with people that won’t even give us a seat at the table.

    The flipside to the way that leftists refused to work with moderates during the rise of Hitler is that moderates also refused to work with leftists and found that they preferred working with fascists in the form of making concession. They did until they didn’t anyway.

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

    Biden is currently averaging 65-69 percent of the votes being counted. If that rate continues he will win. But with such a small amount of votes left there's no way to know right this second where they're coming from. If the percentage gets under 60 it's trouble.

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  • Inkstain82Inkstain82 Registered User regular
    kime wrote: »
    Inkstain82 wrote: »
    Inkstain82 wrote: »
    I strongly disagree, Trump is a cult of personality, he is going to wrap himself in a persecution complex and I'd lay money that he's still going to draw massive crowds

    The entire Fascist mindset before taking power is that they were in power in the past because they deserve to be and some degenerates stole what is theirs. What we are witnessing is a possible origin story for a fascist party in the next few years.

    Not sure how we stop it though since the accusations of cheating are based on literally nothing.

    I hate to say it, because it won’t be popular, but the best way to fend off fascism globally has been for the left and non-fascist center-right to work together. I don’t know how feasible that is in the US.

    IMO, you're describing the modern Democratic Party.


    See, I knew that would be the response. But if you really want to make sure the fascist uprising is stamped out, you would have to eat some real, true shitburgers like allying with someone like Romney or even Rubio.

    If that’s unpalatable to the American left, and I’m pretty sure it is, then you just have to make sure you don’t lose. We didn’t lose this time, soon we can start working on next time.

    Or, like, Kasich? And inviting him to speak at the Democratic party's largest event?

    The problem with Romney isn't us.

    The problem is an extremely large fascist voting bloc.

    Fascism thrives despite being unable to hold a majority when it can convince other factions that it is less objectionable than their enemies.

    Historically around the globe, you can hold that at bay one of two ways. Starve it of allies or beat it repeatedly.

    We beat it this week. We beat it in 2018. I believe we can continue to beat it.

    And that’s all I’ll say because the direction this conversation goes is extremely predictable and can quickly pull a thread into the weeds

  • monikermoniker Registered User regular
    cursedking wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

    Biden is currently averaging 65-69 percent of the votes being counted. If that rate continues he will win. But with such a small amount of votes left there's no way to know right this second where they're coming from. If the percentage gets under 60 it's trouble.

    Fortunately the tally of outstanding votes will eventually actually reach zero rather than just infinitely approach it.

  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    edited November 2020
    moniker wrote: »
    I strongly disagree, Trump is a cult of personality, he is going to wrap himself in a persecution complex and I'd lay money that he's still going to draw massive crowds

    The entire Fascist mindset before taking power is that they were in power in the past because they deserve to be and some degenerates stole what is theirs. What we are witnessing is a possible origin story for a fascist party in the next few years.

    Not sure how we stop it though since the accusations of cheating are based on literally nothing.

    Win again.

    Our democracy is breaking down and right wing terrorism is on the rise already. A bunch of chucklefucks crowing “civil war” and even real politicians implying this election is illegitimate. Fascists don’t need to win an election to take power and they don’t need to take power to be trouble. if Trump decides to make a stink about this and enough people follow him bad things will happen.

    “Win again” isn’t really an answer to that.

    And the sun could explode tomorrow. No more elections.

    Stop trying to win the imaginary civil war battles 6 months from now. This isn't 4D chess.

    What? I’m not. I’m saying that this election is going to create a lot of strife among scary people and that I don’t know what to do about that. 4D chess? What are you even talking about?

    Edit- just saw the MOD post. This will be my last post on the subject.

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  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User regular
    moniker wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

    Biden is currently averaging 65-69 percent of the votes being counted. If that rate continues he will win. But with such a small amount of votes left there's no way to know right this second where they're coming from. If the percentage gets under 60 it's trouble.

    Fortunately the tally of outstanding votes will eventually actually reach zero rather than just infinitely approach it.
    Yeah, it FEELS like it's Zeno's paradox because we lack patience and humans are shit at subjective measures of time. But if you actually track the votes being counted, they are being counted in a predictable, linear fashion.

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  • htmhtm Registered User regular
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

    Biden won 61% of that drop. If he keeps that exact same win rate and there are 7.2K votes are left, then he wins by 105.

    *clench*

  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    moniker wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

    Biden is currently averaging 65-69 percent of the votes being counted. If that rate continues he will win. But with such a small amount of votes left there's no way to know right this second where they're coming from. If the percentage gets under 60 it's trouble.

    Fortunately the tally of outstanding votes will eventually actually reach zero rather than just infinitely approach it.
    Yeah, it FEELS like it's Zeno's paradox because we lack patience and humans are shit at subjective measures of time. But if you actually track the votes being counted, they are being counted in a predictable, linear fashion.

    By people with far more patience than I have. That has to be mind-numbing work.

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  • Phoenix-DPhoenix-D Registered User regular
    htm wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

    Biden won 61% of that drop. If he keeps that exact same win rate and there are 7.2K votes are left, then he wins by 105.

    *clench*

    That's in recount and possible change territory, leading to the possibility of Bush v Gore 2: Now with Peachtree Street

  • Jebus314Jebus314 Registered User regular
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    moniker wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

    Biden is currently averaging 65-69 percent of the votes being counted. If that rate continues he will win. But with such a small amount of votes left there's no way to know right this second where they're coming from. If the percentage gets under 60 it's trouble.

    Fortunately the tally of outstanding votes will eventually actually reach zero rather than just infinitely approach it.
    Yeah, it FEELS like it's Zeno's paradox because we lack patience and humans are shit at subjective measures of time. But if you actually track the votes being counted, they are being counted in a predictable, linear fashion.

    I’d still like to know why they basically turned off all their vote counting ability before they finished though. I mean they’ve counted over 5 million ballots in the last few days. Easily over 10k per hour at its peak. But they can’t manage more than like 10k all fucking day?

    I’m sure there is some logical explanation, like day of votes are counted differently, or they started counting weeks ago, or something. But man is it frustrating.

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  • MvrckMvrck Dwarven MountainhomeRegistered User regular
    htm wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

    Biden won 61% of that drop. If he keeps that exact same win rate and there are 7.2K votes are left, then he wins by 105.

    *clench*

    I'm pretty sure there are still well over 10k left across the state. There were like, 9k alone between Chatham and Clayton before the small Clayton numbers started rolling in.

  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    edited November 2020
    The arrow paradox was specifically about the illusion of motion and was only really solved with relativity, from what I can remember of my PHL 110 class

    Correct, on the philosophy end of things.. After General realitivity started circulating in 1915 logicians and physicist kinda got together and declared an adequate solution based on spacetime's ability to move and change independent of observation.

    As others have said. Mathematically it was solved once Newton and Leibnitz inflicted calculus on the world.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    Jebus314 wrote: »
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    moniker wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

    Biden is currently averaging 65-69 percent of the votes being counted. If that rate continues he will win. But with such a small amount of votes left there's no way to know right this second where they're coming from. If the percentage gets under 60 it's trouble.

    Fortunately the tally of outstanding votes will eventually actually reach zero rather than just infinitely approach it.
    Yeah, it FEELS like it's Zeno's paradox because we lack patience and humans are shit at subjective measures of time. But if you actually track the votes being counted, they are being counted in a predictable, linear fashion.

    I’d still like to know why they basically turned off all their vote counting ability before they finished though. I mean they’ve counted over 5 million ballots in the last few days. Easily over 10k per hour at its peak. But they can’t manage more than like 10k all fucking day?

    I’m sure there is some logical explanation, like day of votes are counted differently, or they started counting weeks ago, or something. But man is it frustrating.

    Because not all the votes or the counters are in the same place. Like when the counters in Bumblefuck are finished with their 4,000 votes, they all go home. They don't go over to Podunkville and help out with counting the 50,000 votes there.

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  • monikermoniker Registered User regular
    Jebus314 wrote: »
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    moniker wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

    Biden is currently averaging 65-69 percent of the votes being counted. If that rate continues he will win. But with such a small amount of votes left there's no way to know right this second where they're coming from. If the percentage gets under 60 it's trouble.

    Fortunately the tally of outstanding votes will eventually actually reach zero rather than just infinitely approach it.
    Yeah, it FEELS like it's Zeno's paradox because we lack patience and humans are shit at subjective measures of time. But if you actually track the votes being counted, they are being counted in a predictable, linear fashion.

    I’d still like to know why they basically turned off all their vote counting ability before they finished though. I mean they’ve counted over 5 million ballots in the last few days. Easily over 10k per hour at its peak. But they can’t manage more than like 10k all fucking day?

    I’m sure there is some logical explanation, like day of votes are counted differently, or they started counting weeks ago, or something. But man is it frustrating.

    I would imagine these are all the votes that have problems or challenges with them. The written in Lizard People for dogcatcher ballots and such.

  • htmhtm Registered User regular
    Phoenix-D wrote: »
    htm wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

    Biden won 61% of that drop. If he keeps that exact same win rate and there are 7.2K votes are left, then he wins by 105.

    *clench*

    That's in recount and possible change territory, leading to the possibility of Bush v Gore 2: Now with Peachtree Street

    Doubtful it will come to that. Biden needs either PA or NV + AZ to win, and he's on track to win all three.

  • MvrckMvrck Dwarven MountainhomeRegistered User regular
    Jebus314 wrote: »
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    moniker wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

    Biden is currently averaging 65-69 percent of the votes being counted. If that rate continues he will win. But with such a small amount of votes left there's no way to know right this second where they're coming from. If the percentage gets under 60 it's trouble.

    Fortunately the tally of outstanding votes will eventually actually reach zero rather than just infinitely approach it.
    Yeah, it FEELS like it's Zeno's paradox because we lack patience and humans are shit at subjective measures of time. But if you actually track the votes being counted, they are being counted in a predictable, linear fashion.

    I’d still like to know why they basically turned off all their vote counting ability before they finished though. I mean they’ve counted over 5 million ballots in the last few days. Easily over 10k per hour at its peak. But they can’t manage more than like 10k all fucking day?

    I’m sure there is some logical explanation, like day of votes are counted differently, or they started counting weeks ago, or something. But man is it frustrating.

    Day of votes you just feed through the machine, get the count. Mail in votes you have remove from envelopes, ensure they were sent correctly, verify the person didn't vote day of, verify the ballot is acceptable, and then get it into a workable state with the creases from mailing to feed it through the machine.

  • Inkstain82Inkstain82 Registered User regular
    Those last 1700 votes that Biden won 59/41 were from a fairly red county. We are still waiting for the extremely blue Clayton and Gwinnett drops

  • MvrckMvrck Dwarven MountainhomeRegistered User regular
    Mvrck wrote: »
    htm wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

    Biden won 61% of that drop. If he keeps that exact same win rate and there are 7.2K votes are left, then he wins by 105.

    *clench*

    I'm pretty sure there are still well over 10k left across the state. There were like, 9k alone between Chatham and Clayton before the small Clayton numbers started rolling in.

    Napkin math my brother and I just worked out from previous totals is ~12k left across the state.

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    moniker wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    cursedking wrote: »
    GA just dropped another small vote tally, this time a total of 1.7k votes. Biden gained 1037 of them, total differential is at 1,479.

    only 7.2k votes are left.

    if my lateheadmath is right that means biden is... on track to lose the state by like 30 votes?

    or up by 30?

    eeee

    Biden is currently averaging 65-69 percent of the votes being counted. If that rate continues he will win. But with such a small amount of votes left there's no way to know right this second where they're coming from. If the percentage gets under 60 it's trouble.

    Fortunately the tally of outstanding votes will eventually actually reach zero rather than just infinitely approach it.
    Yeah, it FEELS like it's Zeno's paradox because we lack patience and humans are shit at subjective measures of time. But if you actually track the votes being counted, they are being counted in a predictable, linear fashion.

    As others have noted, all of this normally goes on behind the scenes, in the days and weeks after the networks have called the winner(s) on election night and everyone's gone to bed. This time, we're all sitting around watching the sausage get made in mostly real time - and in multiple states, not just FL as in 2000. And a lot of those states had very old rusty grinders, or had to order a bunch more and set them up and find enough people to turn all the handles because this election is Huge and Weird.

  • DisrupterDisrupter Registered User regular
    It’s be nice if these next drops were very blue cause with provisional and military you need some cushion here to be safe

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  • Inkstain82Inkstain82 Registered User regular
    If you really really want to go deep in the weeds, this reporter has been at the Clayton County counting station all day posting pictures and updates:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/RKempNewsDaily

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