2020 election
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Rosario Dawson Is 'Proud' of Her Jersey Boo Cory Booker Winning Reelection to U.S Senate Seat—and Yes, She Voted for Him
Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes…how do you measure, measure an election year?! That’s how long it seems to be taking to get the swing state results for the 2020 presidential election, by the way. Oh, look! A reference from a film adaptation that Rosario Dawson starred in! That is a great segue to…
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We Need to Break Down What’s Going on With the USPS and ‘Missing’ Mail-In Ballots
I was really hoping that I would be done writing about election mail on Election Day, but as you can see, I don’t always get what I want. The United States Postal Service keeps on generating controversy, mainly due to early data that shows the USPS may have not delivered up to 300,000 mail-in ballots.…
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White Women Overjoyed for Opportunity Every Four Years to Remind America That They're White
“Did you see us?” called a mysterious and haunting chorus behind me while I was walking down the street. I was puzzled because the street was just empty, so I assumed perhaps I was either daydreaming or just misheard an arbitrarily articulate dray of squirrels. “Tell us you saw us,” they repeated. I turned, cautiously,…
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Mississippi Finally Votes for a Less Racist State Flag
Mississippi had long been one of the few remaining states to have Confederate iconography as part of its state flag, but that will finally change after voters selected a new design during Tuesday’s election. According to NBC News, the new flag, dubbed “The New Magnolia,” received 68 percent of the vote. The public referendum was…
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Vote Challengers Chant 'Stop the Count' at a Detroit Vote-Counting Facility
Vote challengers erupted in a chant of “stop the count” outside of a vote counting facility in Detroit on Wednesday. The Detroit Free Press reports that police officers had to push back crowds who were demanding they should be allowed in the vote tallying room at the TCF Center. Republicans whined and shouted that they…
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Waiting on the Mail: Millions of Mail-In Ballots Remain Uncounted as Legal Challenges Loom
As of Wednesday afternoon, the presidential election was still very much ongoing, with millions of ballots still being counted in crucial battleground states. In total, voters mailed in nearly 64 million ballots prior to Election Day, spurred in large part by concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, reports the New York Times. But it may take…
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‘The Squad’ Is Still in the Building as AOC, Omar, Pressley and Talib All Win Reelection to the House
It’s no secret that the 2020 election has been and continues to be stressful AF. It’s been particularly stressful for progressives whose attitudes appear to range from uncomfortable uncertainty to complete doom and gloom amid election results already reported that make it clear that, regardless of who wins the presidency, America is showing its racist, conservative…
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North Carolina Extends Hours at 4 Polling Sites, Delaying Statewide Election Results Reporting by 45 Minutes
North Carolina—a key battleground state in the 2020 election—will keep four polling places open longer after a Tuesday vote by the North Carolina State Board of Elections. The board’s decision was made because the four polling sites opened late, and the extension means that reporting on statewide election results will be delayed 45 minutes. According…
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Federal Judge Orders USPS Facilities to be Swept for Undelivered Ballots in Key Battleground States
The late stages of the election have been a dark, dark comedy of Republican officials trying to steal the election and the—admittedly occasional—federal court going “Um, the fuck are you doing?” In the latest, and hopefully final act of this play, a federal court ordered the United States Postal Service to sweep its facilities for…
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Group Pepper Sprayed During North Carolina March to the Polls Plan to March Again on Election Day
Many people were horrified this weekend after seeing images of a group of people marching to go vote in North Carolina last weekend being pepper-sprayed and arrested by police. Rev. Greg Drumwright, one of the leaders of the march, has announced another event for Election Day. ABC News reports that during a press conference on…