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4 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
A story I wrote a couple days ago: How to know if a presidential candidate claiming victory has actually won the election. A reminder that a candidate falsely declaring victory has no legal weight and has no bearing on the canvassing process
businessinsider.com/trump-biden-pr…
Everything the president just said is completely nonsensical and incoherent. He's claiming he's winning...and yet wants the counting to be shut down — people who are legitimately winning/won wouldn't need for that to happen
This is also true — you can't just go to the Supreme Court and be like "hey I don't like the fact that these ballots are being counted, pls make it stop." There's def the possibility for future litigation but these cases have to move up through the system
This is the thing — it’s *much* harder to get votes that have already been cast disqualified after the fact than to change the rules beforehand, especially when you didn’t raise the issue in court before the election or did and lost the case (this gets to the doctrine of laches)
I don’t know what his legal avenue would be re: trying to get mail ballots tossed in Michigan and Wisconsin — courts have already sided with his position in ruling that mail ballots in those states needed to be received by the time the polls closed on Election Day!

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Tomorrow is the last day of voting in the 2020 presidential election, and there's still time to make your vote count — here are my top four of my guides w/ @GraphicsInsider for in-person Election Day voting I'm re-upping today 1/6
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