Game Thread: The 2016 US American Election

[GirlySports]

help me out here, how does registering to vote work in the states? when is it done, does it cost money? What's this about not needing ID?

I don't get it. We Canadians just show up with our ID on election day and vote. We can sleep until the next election.

[Senator Clay Davis]

What a guy lol

Bill Mitchell ‏@mitchellvii 39m39 minutes ago
Folks, ignore exits from CNN and MSNBC especially. Guaranteed to be biased.

Bill MitchellVerified account
‏@mitchellvii Bill Mitchell Retweeted Alex Honeker
HUGE fpr Trump. CHANGE most important issue.

CNN EXIT POLL
Most important:
Change 38%
Experience 22%
Judgment 22%
Cares about me 15%

[kerriffic]

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Was just thinking the same thing. Seriously, WTF is wrong with these folks? Also, it's baffling and sad that 44% of people actually care that much about the email thing, which ended up being a complete non-story after Clinton was cleared TWICE of any wrongdoing. I just don't understand the logic behind somebody voting for a racist, sexist, unqualified assclown like Trump simply because of Clinton's misuse of her email server. This whole thing couldn't be more ridiculous.

David Frum today on CBC said "Voting for Trump because Hillary is bad it like slitting your throat to lower your blood pressure"

[devo22]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

I don't get it. We Canadians just show up with out ID on election day and vote. We can sleep until the next election.

same over here. We receive a note via mail a few weeks before the election where it tells us where we have to go on election day. You take that note and your ID with you on election day and that's it.

[worth]

You still need to be registered to vote though. Elections Canada needs to know you exist.

http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx...t=index&lang=e

[nik-]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

51%? That's it? What's wrong with our society?

I don't know what it makes me, but his treatment of women and minorities doesn't bother me. It just makes me think he's an ####### who shouldn't be president.

However, in my mind, there are bigger reasons Trump shouldn't be president than being a misogynist racist #######.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by worth

You still need to be registered to vote though. Elections Canada needs to know you exist.

http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx...t=index&lang=e

that's done by door to door census

[Dogbert]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Hahaha has a potential celebration cake ever looked more down?



https://twitter.com/jasonvolack/stat...03690398691328

When they told the Cake Boss they wanted the cake to look like Donald Trump, did he hear "Disappointed Matlock"?

[Drak]

Originally Posted by nik-

I don't know what it makes me, but his treatment of women and minorities doesn't bother me. It just makes me think he's an ####### who shouldn't be president.

However, in my mind, there are bigger reasons Trump shouldn't be president than being a misogynist racist #######.

Except that stuff transfers over to policy.

[PsYcNeT]

And it begins...

BREAKING: LA-area polling station on lockdown after shots nearby; at least two people were wounded https://t.co/KXk04pRsxd

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

51%? That's it? What's wrong with our society?

49% male.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Drak

Except that stuff transfers over to policy.

Maybe. But his stance on nuclear weapons, extorting NATO allies for protection money and love of Putin are bigger concerns than him being a dbag to me.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

help me out here, how does registering to vote work in the states? when is it done, does it cost money? What's this about not needing ID?

I don't get it. We Canadians just show up with out ID on election day and vote. We can sleep until the next election.

Registration is free in the USA but I don't know what is actually involved. In Canada, we register to vote as well. If I'm not mistaken every time you do your taxes one of the first general questions is if your information can be shared with Election Canada. They put your name and address on the list of voters. If you show up to that related polling place they cross you off the list. If you show up to a different polling place because you moved you fill out a form to register there before you vote.

[Drak]

Originally Posted by nik-

Maybe. But his stance on nuclear weapons, extorting NATO allies for protection money and love of Putin are bigger concerns than him being a dbag to me.

I guess it all goes into one big sheetpile.

[Senator Clay Davis]

We couldn't even get to 7pm EST before the excuses started?

Katy TurVerified account ‏@KatyTurNBC 44m44 minutes ago
its 5:45 and Kellyanne Conway tells @chucktodd she's disappointed she didn't have the full support of the Republican party.

https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/statu...21911780589568

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

49% male.

As a male I find this comment super offensive.

[mrkajz44]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Registration is free in the USA but I don't know what is actually involved. In Canada, we register to vote as well. If I'm not mistaken every time you do your taxes one of the first general questions is if your information can be shared with Election Canada. They put your name and address on the list of voters. If you show up to that related polling place they cross you off the list. If you show up to a different polling place because you moved you fill out a form to register there before you vote.

This is exactly how Canada makes it easy. You check the box on your tax return and it automatically registers your name and address to the voting list. The default option is to have this box checked so most people don't even know they are doing this and they just show up on election day and are able to vote. There is no such system in the US.

[Acey]

Reports of Georgia possibly being in play for Clinton, but I doubt anything comes of that. Also reports of lower turnout in the Florida panhandle which would be bad news for Trump. Too early to say yet, but so far there has been nothing resembling good news, even good rumours that might end up being true, for Trump.

[Drak]

That's good news. For John McCain!