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24 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
There really is a simple answer to this problem: don’t invite liars on to your programs. Republicans are now in the minority. There is no news value of having them on to spout and mainstream conspiracy theories
Join us again next week for another episode of outrage theater
I think the media is broken. And that is it. There is no both sides about the election outcome. Inviting guests on to shows to spout conspiracy theories has downstream effects that are destroying peoples' lives, all for a few more clicks and eyeballs
Sadly, the time has still not passed when we need to fact check false claims about the election made on national television

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14 Jan
More anecdotal reports that following last week, registered Republicans are changing their registration to something else sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/…
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13 Jan
If Trump was rational he’d resign and let Pence pardon him before what now appears to be an impeachment conviction in the Senate

“If” is doing a lot of work here
Perhaps Trump would rather House members pass his loyalty test first. He is actively ripping apart his own party and he and they are fine with it
On the next episode of Gorilla TV...
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7 Jan
Breaking news: the Trump campaign has voluntarily withdrawn a challenge in Georgia state court to the presidential election (Trump v Raffensperger). I was scheduled to testify tomorrow for intervenors in support of the state defendants
I have been involved in several successful election lawsuits against the GA Secretary of State's office. It felt odd to be testifying in defense of them, and for them to welcome my assistance. Trump has a way of bringing people together :)
Not sure if @marceelias gets to count this one. I don't think the judge had yet ruled if they would be allowed to intervene
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28 Dec 20
#earlyvote update 12/28

2,126,254 people have voted in the 2021 Georgia Senate run-off election
electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-202…
We have a week and a day to go. What seems likely at this point is fewer people will vote early than in the general, which is expected since run-off elections tend to have lower turnout and there were three fewer days of in-person early voting with the holidays
What does this mean for Election Day voters? If the three fewer in-person days affected early turnout, perhaps Election Day will be a greater share of the overall electorate. 1) the ratio of early to Election Day is off plus 2) some people who might vote early vote Election Day
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16 Dec 20
#earlyvote update 12/16

715,048 people have voted in the 2021 Georgia Senate run-off election electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-202…
Georgia does not have party registration. Next best to watch is the racial profile of the electorate. Still a long way to go...

2020 General (final)
White: 56.4%
Black: 27.7%

2021 Senate Run-off (current)
White: 54.5% (-1.9 points)
Black: 33.1% (+4.4)
I am reluctant to make same day prior to the election comparisons. If you recall, for the first three days of in-person early voting during the general Georgia had a problem with their electronic poll books. In some places it took up to 15 minutes to check in a single voter.
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15 Dec 20
#earlyvote update 12/15

482,792 people have voted in the 2021 Georgia Senate run-off election electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-202…
This update includes new stats and maps for the in-person early votes and total early votes
I've been re-engineering the backend database, so there could be some bugs and typos lurking in here
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