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Dave (@pccasestudy): What is the single greatest television show in history? Quote tweet your answer. Remember, you get one answer. One. 2:38 pm • 25 Nov 2017

I was wrong that the utility of this platform was still greater than the harm it was doing to our country. I’ll delete my account whenever my archive is ready.

(Standard disclaimer but we’re not a typical Philadelphia division. Generally we are in the top 1% of the 1700 divisions in turnout terms.)

A half hour to go and we have hit 500 in-person votes for the day and we’re a vote or two from 80% active voter turnout.

no https://twitter.com/ojmcmanus/status/1853950630357819487

If Pennsylvania doesn’t turn out to be particularly close, don’t be that surprised.

A friend in Sweden says Pennsylvania is the main television news topic on all the channels. (I’m not particularly sure I want this for us.)

https://x.com/elenfornewtown/status/1853878606348402919 https://twitter.com/elenfornewtown/status/1853878606348402919

If Harris wins Pennsylvania, your default assumption should be that it’s a result of an incredible turnout effort. https://twitter.com/CokerMD/status/1853865092846125340

400 in-person votes in 420 minutes. We are now below the one voter per minute rate for the first time today.

342 voters in 300 minutes. With 212 mail-ins we’re officially over 55%. If we don’t count inactive/likely moved voters in the denominator, we’re at 62% turnout with 8 hours to go.

114 voters in 75 minutes. Morning rush is over.

60 voters in 41 minutes in Cedar Park, West Philadelphia. The line is long, but everyone’s happy to be here. #PhillyVotes

Other than some last-minute emergency absentee ballots being issued today, we know exactly who has been issued a mail-in ballot for this election. It hopefully goes without saying that no ballots of any kind can be issued after Election Day.

In states like Pennsylvania where all ballots MUST be received by 8:00 pm Tuesday, the outcome is set when the polls close. We just won't know what it is until we count all the votes, and the order we count them in or how long it takes doesn't change that result at all.

In 2016 we were busy all day and then totally dead from 6:30-8:00 pm. Maybe that will happen again but I guess don't count on it.

(This may well be universal advice, but I've only ever been a pollworker in Philadelphia.)

If you're planning to vote in person in Philadelphia tomorrow, plan for long lines when the polls open and for the first few hours, and again after 5:00 pm. My best guess as to the quickest times to vote: mid-morning and mid-afternoon.

As a judge of election I would much rather direct you to the place where you are on the voter rolls than have you vote a provisional ballot with me. A machine vote will be counted for sure, and on Election Night. A provisional will be counted much later, or possibly not at all.

Obviously you have a right to a provisional. But being "turned away at the polls" could mean a lot of things, including that you're at the wrong polling place. If pollworkers aren't helpful in directing you to where you need to be, check your registration on your state's website. https://t.co/tR...

Looks a little like Super Dave Osborne here https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1853260272426766806

Other countries with voter ID requirements have IDs issued by the national government. The national governments are also the primary repositories for birth records. Are IDs a function we want to nationalize? (Very few voter ID proponents want this.)

I don’t hate the idea of ID requirements to vote in U.S. elections, but my starting premise is that they can’t prevent any adult citizen who wants to vote from voting, & in my experience many voter ID proponents see preventing some adult citizens from voting as part of the point.

Noncitizens don’t vote in our elections, because why would they? No rational person would risk prison or deportation so that some politician can get one more vote. It would be like breaking into a helium plant to fill up a balloon. https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1853235738013258006

No one knows what fulsome means and I am nonplussed about it. https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1853189509455757526

The next sentence, which the people who are gleefully RTing this won’t see:

“We do a lot to account for this, but in the end there are no guarantees.” https://twitter.com/JoshKraushaar/status/1853038641418813933

https://twitter.com/XEng/status/1852934762144698736

SORRY, I MEANT BUCK’S COUNTY

IF YOU’RE IN LINE TO VOTE IN BUCKS COUNTY STAY IN LINE

This would by no means solve all of our problems, but it would solve… some of them? https://twitter.com/politvidchannel/status/1852361201969447343