The main delay is that Mississipi allows postal votes postmarked up to election day. They then allow 10 days for these to make it through the system and then they count. By contrast, in the UK, postal votes must arrive by 10pm on polling day so are counted at the same time as paper ballots.

Then there are provisional ballots, which are votes cast in person where their eligibility is in question. This may be because the voter did not produce ID or did not appear on the register for the polling station they attended, or if their details on the database were inaccurate. Each of these ballots then needs investigation to check the validity of the vote, and may come down to litigation.

Why this is noticeable now is because usually postal votes are somewhat moot, and by the time in-person votes have been cast a clear winner can be provisionally announced. This time in Mississippi the in-person voting was so close that postal ballots or even provisional ballots will be decisive.

Reckon they would have to consider an access subscription on top of the game price. Otherwise they lose with every update and reinstall, and multiplayer games. Maybe a per-device charge.

Because UEFA is going to make tbings very difficult next year.

Don’t think redneck/cowboy is teally FIFA’s core market

No. The role is too important for trite sentimental stunts.

I think they allow any postal ballots with postal date up to election day, so they have to wait 10 days IIRC for them to arrive. Normally it doesn’t matter because a clear winner is apparent before it gets to that.

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Unfortunately here in Britain we had a big run of trials that collapsed when it was revealed the accusations were false, nevertheless irrevocably ruining the defendants’ reputations. This sort of prosecutorial incompetence serves to muddy the waters and lead genuine victims to doubt themselves, and well-meaning confidants ro err on the side of what they consider to be caution.

Ideally, a performant justice system and use of blanket media reporting restrictions to protect defendants until conviction would allow such determinations as “ruining someone’s life” to the prosecutors and the jury and save personal anguish on the part of the complainant.

Ladies and gentlemen, and I don’t mean two groups of people, welcome to the new world order…

NO NOT LIKE THAT

First time was malice too

• Get Shorty
• The Thing
• Kick Ass
• The Iceman Cometh
• Blazing Saddles
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Chariots of Fire
• Everything Everywhere All At Once

The vast majority of officers are not armed.

In a way.

The CCP knows that if the public ever became interested in politics, they would be kicked out of power. So they do everything they can to make sure that they have no need to become interested.

The inequality has led to crazy situations. For instance, people from cities are banned from buying property in rural areas because they would price locals out of the market. However this ban also extends to institutions, which means that effectively banks (being urban) are banned from offering mortgages on rural properties which creates real problems for the locals who then can’t afford the properties anyway.

To be fair Ed had just been offered a bacon sandwich

Such people must theoretically exist

Something only someone in their 50s+ would say

The control system for that 60km section had failed, leading to an automatic stop command to all trains. Controllers took over manual operations. Some idiot ordered one of the trains in question to proceed at full line speed. It crashed into the back of the train in front at around 100km/h.