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US election status in four sentences

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Scanning the news this morning, I came across this BBC article that opened with four, single-sentence paragraphs that really lay it all out there:

"He won because the Election was Rigged," the Republican president wrote on Twitter, repeating unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.

About an hour later he said he was not conceding the 3 November vote.

He has launched a slew of lawsuits in key states, but has not provided any evidence to back his claims of fraud.

All the lawsuits have so far been unsuccessful.

Meanwhile, all available evidence points to this election being virtually free of fraud. As an example, the Republican Secretary of State in Georgia says that he’s investigating a total of three suspected incidents of fraud … out of five million votes cast!

See also: US election: Trump says Biden won but again refuses to concede

Voting for Drugs

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For those struggling with the uncertainty of last night’s election, last night’s election might provide your answer.

Among the more certain outcomes are that Montana, New Jersey, Arizona and South Dakota voters legalized recreational marijuana. In fact, one in three US Americans now lives in a state where recreational marijuana is legal.

Oregon and Washington, D. C. pushed further last night, opening the way to psychedelic mushrooms. Oregon also decriminalized small amounts of heroin and cocaine

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Voting from space … again

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Kate Rubins is headed to space in October and, while there, plans to vote in the US Presidential election from the International Space Station, for a second time. It turns out that astronauts have been voting from space for decades.

Rubins also cast her vote from the International Space Station during the 2016 election

Three other astronauts, who have filled out the paperwork, are expected to join Rubin on the Space Station in the final days before the election.

A team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston coordinates between each astronaut’s County Clerk and the "completed ballot is downlinked and delivered back to the County Clerk’s Office by e-mail to be officially recorded."

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Voting for Democrats and Republicans

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Apparently, in the United States, if you vote for a candidate that you like and want to hold the office, people call that a "protest vote".

However, if you instead vote against whichever party you hate most, because hating them is more important than even liking the candidate that you’re voting for … that’s not a protest vote.

George Orwell would be proud 😕