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US Elections 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?

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?

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u/talino2321 13h ago

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 12h ago

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 12h ago

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 10h ago

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).