Subj : Re: My nation, America, To : Gregory Deyss From : Jeff Thiele Date : Tue Feb 09 2021 07:25 pm On 09 Feb 2021, Gregory Deyss said the following... GD> Because Trump was leading in every battleground state that there was GD> right up to midnight and then something happened in the early hours GD> didn't it.... Indeed it did. But what happened in the early hours is no mystery; it's been well-documented. Not everyone voted on Election Day; some voted early and some mailed in their voted. However, by law, those votes were to be stored uncounted until Election Day. A couple of factors influenced the respective makeups of the Election-Day and early/mail-in votes: 1. One candidate made it abundantly clear to his supporters that mail-in voting was not to be trusted, and 2. Early voting is more popular in places where there tend to be long lines at the polls; i.e., urban areas. So on Election Day, they start counting the votes, and they started with the Election-Day votes which, due to the factors mentioned above, were disproportionately urban/conservative/Republican. And then around 2am, as you have noted, they finished up the Election-Day votes and moved on to the early/mail-in votes, and due to the same factors these were disproportionately rural/liberal/Democrat. Rather than being some grand conspiracy, it boils down to behavioral differences between voters for the two candidates. Jeff. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32) * Origin: Cold War Computing BBS (1:387/26) .