Every single election they count ballots for days after election night. It's just how it works, and this year they have FAR more mail-in ballots than ever before. In Pennsylvania, where they're complaining about it the most, the Republican legislators refused the election officials' request ahead of time to allow them to start counting/processing mail-in ballots before election night, so they could avoid this very situation, but they refused to allow them to do it. And now the Republicans are complaining that the fact it's taking so long is proof of foul play. No, it's a fucking con. They ensured this would be happening so they could call foul play. It's sickening what's going on right now, Trump is calling to stop counting votes before they're all counted, so the election goes in his favor. He is calling to throw away the votes of millions of Americans because he is afraid that if those votes are counted, he will lose. This is inexcusable, and anti-democratic, this is what totalitarian regimes do. Every vote needs to be counted. It has ALWAYS since the beginning of this country, taken days or weeks after election night to count all the votes, because of mail-in ballots. it is totally in accordance with the laws in most states (it varies by state) to accept ballots received after election night, as long as they're postmarked by election day. Trump's attempting to stop vote counting is 100% anti-democratic and anyone supporting this behavior should be ashamed of themselves. The Republicans, by and large, have utterly failed to call him out on this (shout out to Mitt Romney who is calling him out, kudos to you). This is a threat to democracy right now. Trump has made it known all along that he would only accept the results of the election if he won. That sentiment alone should have freedom-loving Americans taking to the streets against the guy. Now he is showing that he's not above undermining public trust in one of our most important and fundamental rights, in order to play into his fucking ego game and retain power. This is the kind of shit that goes down in third world countries with dictators. People need to wake the fuck up and realize what's happening here. What Trump is doing is treasonous to the very foundations of why our country and the Constitution and Bills of Rights were formed.
The Trump campaign is spreading lies by the dozen about voter fraud... a great one they got caught in was when they said that Winsconsin's number of cast votes exceeded their number of registered voters by like 40,000. Someone made a convincing-looking post with numbers that sounded real, but if you spent a few minutes going to Wisconsin's election commission web site, their number of registered voters was, and has been, listed at half a million more than this bogus piece of "news" claimed. Outright lies that sound good if you want to believe them. But these lies do not hold up under scrutiny.
