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 Does anyone find it ironic that when we had only paper ballots, we usually got the results by the next day?  Now that we have electronic voting, that should make the results available the moment the election is over, it now takes weeks to get results.  It makes zero sense unless there is funny business going on for weeks to get the results desired.

It also seems insane that most states seem to have voting for a month or more.  Of course going to a high percentage of mail-in votes makes it so easy to commit fraud if a person has no morals or believes their ends justifies the means.

At this point, I have doubts that Trump winning by more than 10% will lead to him becoming president.  None of the problems from 4 years ago has been fixed and they've come up with new means of fraud.  When those in charge of the election and law enforcement are in on the fraud, there is no recourse available to those who have been disenfranchised by illegal votes and outright fraud. 
 it looks like he will win by more than 20% though, just that the fascists have the house, and a huge network of agents throughout the state governments of the swing states and blue states

just gotta plan to account for insane regime uncertainty at this point i think 
 I expect him to win by a lot because nobody actually likes Kamal other than maybe her puppet masters.  All of her voters are voting for her solely based on Trump Derangement Syndrome. (Not that Trump is anywhere near perfect).

It seems like he should win easily, but I just don't have faith in our elections anymore.  I'm afraid that we have become a banana republic.  I just tell myself that God is in control and knows what he is doing. 
 The victory of reality over delusion is inevitable (and not up to you) 
 i'm booking a ticket to El Salvador if anything fishy happens. 

i only have 4 ramen packets in the cupboard, and at least in El Salvador there are chickens laying eggs in the jungle. 

in case the supply chains stop working for some reason. i'm hoping that will only happen in January so there may be time to pack up some more stuff. 
 sounds very well thought out 
 In order to get to the bottom of that discussion, you just need to boil it down to incentives.
It’s obvious that it’s to enable fraud.  We’re witnessing the looting of American through foreign special interests. 
Our enemies just pay our politicians large sums of money to sell away our country.
In two days we find out if this will continue 4 more years.
🧡🍻👊🏻 
 In two days (or more likely over a week) we figure out if we still have a democratic republic or if, like the Romans, we are now a totalitarian empire and like Venezuela, elections are jut for show (Ironically the voting machines used in many states were first used in Venezuela to fix their elections.  I don't think that is a coincidence). 
 So true. 
It really is a pivotal moment in time.