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2022-11-08 Government Corruption
White House Urges Americans to Be Patient ‘For a Few Days' Before Declaring Midterm Winners
[Breitbart] The White House on Monday cautioned that the winners of the midterm elections would not be immediately apparent, estimating that it would take several days to count all the ballots.

"We may not know all the winners of elections for a few days. It takes time to count all legitimate ballots in a legal and orderly manner," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.

She spoke about Tuesday’s elections during the daily White House press briefing, warning that "modern" elections required more time to count votes.

"In modern elections more and more ballots are cast in early voting and also by mail," Jean-Pierre said, adding that many states did not even start counting ballots until after the polls closed.

She said that state and local election results would take longer to count than in previous elections because of the different ways that people were voting.

"We’re in a different time ... we’re just trying to communicate with the American people, let them know this process certainly has changed again in modern elections," Jean-Pierre said.

She refused to commit to a press conference after the election, only telling reporters that the president would speak to the country on Wednesday.

Jean-Pierre also did not detail what Biden would do on Election Day.

"He’ll have a robust pretty heavy schedule tomorrow here at the White House," she said.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-08 01:22|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 Crooked bastids.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-08 01:23||   2022-11-08 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 They need time to truck in the boxes full of pre-filled ballots.

Other countries have instant results declared the same night. UK, Brazil, the list goes on. What, are we some low-tech nightmare? Nope, we could do it if we wanted. But our elites don't want free and fair elections, because we make choices that don't benefit them.
Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-11-08 01:52||   2022-11-08 01:52|| Front Page Top

#3 
Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-08 02:35||   2022-11-08 02:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey! - it's going to take time to print the millions of necessary ballots which don't have creases from being mailed in them. Do you have any idea how unpopular the Democrats are this election?
Posted by CrazyFool 2022-11-08 06:34||   2022-11-08 06:34|| Front Page Top

#5 As long as its open and transparent, its not a problem. About those PA mail in ballots sent to addresses in Canada....
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-11-08 06:51||   2022-11-08 06:51|| Front Page Top

#6 ....It gets better.

ABC is telling people about the 'red Mirage', where it will look like the GOP is winning, but then the Democrats will make a comeback.

Rather odd that ABC thought it was necessary to explain that.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-11-08 08:33||   2022-11-08 08:33|| Front Page Top

#7 And better - DOJ workers plan to monitor voting in 44 jurisdictions, the agency announced on Monday.

DOJ Announcement
Posted by Bobby 2022-11-08 09:07||   2022-11-08 09:07|| Front Page Top

#8 
Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-08 09:23||   2022-11-08 09:23|| Front Page Top

#9 DOJ Announcement

Bobby, you forgot to paste the URL in the box before submitting the comment. Try again?
Posted by trailing wife 2022-11-08 09:47||   2022-11-08 09:47|| Front Page Top

#10 A bit of a mess at 6:45 AM in VA District 10 (Wexton vs Cao): Myself and 2 poll workers locked out of the school, new divers license scanner not working, took 4 or 5 tries for the simple ballot to be scanned.
Posted by airandee 2022-11-08 10:16||   2022-11-08 10:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Canada uses paper ballots, counted by hand and scrutinized individually. Just sayin’.

Why Elections Canada still uses paper voter lists and hand counts ballots for federal elections
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-08 10:20||   2022-11-08 10:20|| Front Page Top

#12 *raises hand*

Karen, why does the White House have inside information or even an opinion of what are mostly very local elections?
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-11-08 10:50||   2022-11-08 10:50|| Front Page Top

#13 Correcting #7 and answering #9 -

DOJ Announcement

or - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-again-monitor-compliance-federal-voting-rights-laws-election-day
Posted by Bobby 2022-11-08 12:09||   2022-11-08 12:09|| Front Page Top

#14 #13 Correcting #7 and answering #9 -

DOJ Announcement

or - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-again-monitor-compliance-federal-voting-rights-laws-election-day
Posted by: Bobby 2022-11-08 12:09

Bobby,

Thank you for posting that!

And FWIW, I'm familiar with two places on that list. First, Cuyahoga County OH, which is where you can find my home town of Cleveland. The CC board of elections has been held by Democrats - and on several occasions by members of the same family of Democrats - since before I was born. I'll just say this: the phrase 'Vote Early and Often' came from Cleveland, not Chicago.

Richland County SC is about three miles from me across the Congaree River. Again, reliably Democrat-run, though somebody goofed in 2020 and Columbia got a Republican mayor.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-11-08 12:33||   2022-11-08 12:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Such bullshit! This is happening yet again. Its not a red or blue issue. Its an AZ vote integrity issue. 20% of the machines are rejecting votes. In Pinal county, they have no machines, you check in, then you go to a different table and one of the ladies hand you a ballot. The ballot has no link to the voter. This is a mess...
Posted by 49 Pan 2022-11-08 12:44||   2022-11-08 12:44|| Front Page Top

#16 
Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-08 15:38||   2022-11-08 15:38|| Front Page Top

#17 This is a mess...
feature, not bug. As planned
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-08 16:59||   2022-11-08 16:59|| Front Page Top

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