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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Once more:
"The directive, issued Friday, lays out the requirements for submitting a provisional ballot. The directive includes a form which puts the burden on the voter to correctly record the form of ID provided to election officials. Husted also instructed election officials that if the form is not filled out correctly by a voter, the ballot should not be counted."
"According to a lawsuit filed by voting rights advocates, this is “contrary to a court decision on provisional ballots a week ago and contrary to statements made by attorneys for Husted at an Oct. 24 court hearing.”"
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen Fry@Kostya: I don't know about RCP's methods, but I do know that it was founded because all the other kids were anti-conservative and anti-Christian, and places founded with that purpose, such as Fox News, have a good track record.
538 has Minnesota at a 99.0% chance for Obama, and 96.6 in Pennsylvania. So. Are they delusional, cheating, or is Nate Silver missing something?
edited 3rd Nov '12 7:35:02 PM by Arkasas
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RCP has Dems having a 54-46 Senate (with Mourdock losing)
, 290-248 with Obama losing Virginia
, and (unfortunately) The GOP barely holding the House
.
@Enkufka
I'm sorry, that guy needs to be arrested. He is simply un-American, a term I don't use lightly.
edited 3rd Nov '12 7:54:57 PM by Skatepunk
At a cursory glance, RCP is a bit biased towards the right. I mean, it's certainly not to an farcical degree that unswekedpolls is, but they've projected a smaller lead for Obama than most pollsters have. What I don't like about them is that there's lots of states where Obama has 3 to 5 percent leads but they still call it a "tossup" on the electoral map. That seems like an ideal point to call it a leaning state.
edited 3rd Nov '12 8:00:18 PM by HilarityEnsues
@Jovian: Right now getting a majority might be the only way for Democrats to break the Republican habit of stonewalling nearly everything because they want to sabotage the president's administration. Right now, a lot of people would rejoice over that scenario. Frankly, the Republicans have given us less and less over the last four years, and deserve whatever loss of power they experience because they've behaved like children in regards to improving our economy.
@Question: uh... yeah? There's going to be a constant news feed that day as the votes are registered and counted.
Protesters (and their puppets) march to support public broadcasting

Its crushing when said polls predict Romney has about 190 electoral votes.
edited 3rd Nov '12 7:27:49 PM by Midgetsnowman