Geoffrey Ingersoll

@GPIngersoll

A pipe burst in Georgia, and now they think they won't finish counting votes for another ~two days, CBS reporting. Not a joke.

https://twitter.com/GPIngersoll/status/1323802580309446657

Fulton election results delayed after pipe bursts in room with ballots

Fulton County’s absentee-by-mail processing operation at State Farm Arena was delayed at least two hours today after a water pipe burst in a room with ballots.

No ballots were harmed thanks to the slant of the room, voting officials said Tuesday night. But this delay likely dashes officials’ hope of having a three-quarters count by 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Fulton Commission Chairman Robb Pitts told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday evening that the pipe burst at 6:07 a.m. and was repaired by 8:07 a.m.

“There was a pipe that burst in the room where we actually had ballots, thank goodness that none of those ballots were damaged,” Dwight Brower, with Fulton County elections, told the elections board Tuesday night.

Elections officials are still expecting results from the majority of ballots cast to be displayed later Tuesday night, including the roughly 315,000 early in-person votes, which represent the most popular way of voting this cycle.

Board members asked when the public would have results from Georgia’s most populated county.

“It’s going to be later than what we would like it to be,” said Ralph Jones, a top Fulton elections manager.

As of 5 p.m., Fulton had scanned 86,191 of the 130,517 absentee-by-mail ballots received, which doesn’t include the ballots received in today’s mail, Jones said.

Elections board member Mark Wingate said he believes they won’t have definitive results until later this week.

“It sounds to me … from a candidate standpoint, they may not know anything until Friday,” Wingate said.

https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/fulton-election-results-delayed-after-pipe-bursts-in-room-with-ballots/4T3KPQV7PBEX3JVAIGJBNBSVJY/

Yascha Mounk

@Yascha_Mounk

When the dude who has, for months, basically mocked and trolled anyone who thought that Trump had a real chance says that Biden's likelihood of winning "is not in a doomsday position yet," you know it's time to worry.

https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1323805443727237120

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Police scuffle with BLM protesters as THOUSANDS gather outside the White House in demonstration they'd 'planned for months' - and they threaten to stay for weeks if Trump is re-elected

Thousands of protesters began to descend on Black Lives Matter Plaza a block from the White House on Tuesday evening preparing for a night of demonstrations even as many states still have hours to go until polling stations close.

As night fell on Tuesday, D.C. police lined the streets in preparation for the first signs of incoming results with an early scuffle between cops and protesters taking place around 5.15pm after demonstrators failed to comply with police orders to move a demonstration vehicle that was illegally parked.

The skirmish led to one arrest as more protesters began to gather despite the 'non-scalable' fence now surround the perimeter of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and secret service agents patrolling the area, according to NBC.

Cops escorted a truck of musical performers as Shutdown D.C. and Black Lives Matter began their demonstrations to 'start this next phase of the election cycle in the streets', with threats to continue the unrest for weeks if Trump is re-elected.

The groups have planned an eight-hour event at Black Lives Matter Plaza that will include a giant screen showing election results, DJs and performances by bands playing Washington's signature go-go music. A new report claims that they 'planned for months' to launch a new wave of protests from election night.

While some Trump supporters were present, they were vastly outnumbered by anti-Trump protesters.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8911151/Police-scuffle-BLM-protesters-THOUSANDS-gather-outside-White-House.html