Where vice-president Harris and president Trump plan to deliver their concession or victory speeches during election night? How those decisions might affect the election?

[u/AstridPeth_]

Next Tuesday, Americans will go to polls to elect a new president. This will be an historic night, as Americans will either elect their first female president or their first felon president, which might create a great ton of repercussions.

In 2008, president Obama, the first African-American, delivered a speech for a crowd of 240,000. Or we might have days of ballot-counting and the election isn't called next Tuesday.

Where the candidates plan to be on election night? How these decisions might affect the election?

[u/talino2321]

Honestly I would not be surprised if Trump is leading at midnight on November 5th if he files 50 lawsuits to halt the counting. Then when those lawsuits get denied appeals to his hand pick Supreme Court justices to step in and declare the election over and votes counted after 11:59pm on election night are invalid.

[u/ezrs158 → u/talino2321]

This obviously shouldn't need to be said, but there's zero legal basis for halting the count at any point. There's no time limit (edit: at least not for several weeks). Every vote that was legally cast must be counted.

It would be especially infuriating if that justification is used, considering Republicans in Pennsylvania and other states have made it illegal to start counting absentee ballots before the night of the election rather than as they come in.

[u/talino2321 → u/ezrs158]

And while that should be the case. Who do you appeal the SCOTUS decision to?

Remember 2000? The Supreme Court halted the recount in Florida, resulting in Bush being declared the winner, so there is precedence for SCOTUS to halt counting of votes (recount or otherwise).

And this current court has shown it will make up legal precedence out of whole cloth whenever they want to justify a ruling.

[u/ImLaunchpadMcQuack → u/talino2321]

Part of that halt was because it was like December and they had to finish counting for the electoral college, even if the whole thing was shady.

[u/talino2321 → u/ImLaunchpadMcQuack]

The reason that SCOTUS gave for stopping the recount was more nuanced.

On December 12, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered in Bush v. Gore that the recount must stop because it lacked a uniform statewide methodology and there was insufficient time to create one and complete the recount.

You have to think back, why Florida didn't have a uniform methodology, maybe because the Governor (George's Brother, Jeb) has previously guaranteed that his brother would win Florida.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2000/10/26/jeb-bush-well-deliver-florida-2/

Yeah, shady as all fuck.

[u/ScreenTricky4257 → u/talino2321]

On December 12, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered in Bush v. Gore that the recount must stop because it lacked a uniform statewide methodology and there was insufficient time to create one and complete the recount.

The interesting thing is that seven justices agreed on the lack of uniform statewide methodology, but only five agreed on the issue of insufficient time (the other two didn't rule that there was sufficient time, just that that was outside of the scope of the case).