Comments by "Cross Link" (@crosslink1493) on "Lessons on Elections and Faith from Unexpected Places || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. Actually its done overnight in California after the polls close as 8PM. Very close races will be recounted to ensure the results and would take a day (or two). A very, very few very close races might be contested by a candidate and require a recount by hand and take longer, but they are very unusual. The California Secretary of State certifies election results about a month after the election, but that's more of a formality in this day & age.
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  2. Unless you've worked in the USA election system (I'm in California) and seen how tough it would be to forge a mail-in ballot. QR code and serial number on each ballot is unique, and the envelope it gets mailed in is unique and has to be signed by the voter under penalty of perjury. And all those codes are machine-red and matched before the votes on them are counted - any duplicates will have all copies rejected. If you fill it out wrong you have to either go to the County voting office to get a new one issued to you after surrendering the old one (and its envelope), or you can take it to a polling place on election day and exchange it for a new one. Its not 100% impossible to forge a mail-in ballot, but its very, very difficult.
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  3. "But I die a little slower On the train to Birmingham" - John Hiatt Been there once, not a bad place. Don't go on a Saturday during football season if you're not a fan of the game.
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  4. I always thought it had started with African tribal loyalty coming first, the political boundaries and systems set up by colonial rulers coming second. Once the colonists left the tribal loyalties resurfaced, including dissatisfaction for those that had 'played ball' with the colonial masters.
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  5. And it sounds like he's in a cave!
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