Recollections of the Election

 

(Early, with polls still open in California) Fox New Decision Desk Calls the House for the Democrats

(Within an hour of polls closing in Arizona) Fox News Decision Desk Call Arizona for Biden. The early reported returns are supposedly from mail-in ballots, and Biden has a huge lead.

Trump is way ahead in Geogia. Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, with most of the vote counted.

Counting in stopped in Georgia. I was reported this because of a water main break in the auditorium in Fulton County.

Counting is stopped in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Large blocks of Biden-only votes numbering over a hundred thousand are received in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. For Wisconsin and Michigan, this is sufficient to catapult Biden into a small lead. For Pennsylvania, Biden still trails by hundreds of thousands of votes, but reports emerge of millions of votes yet to be counted. 

Over the next three days, Pennsylvania vote counters seal themselves off from the world as they supposedly count late-arriving mail-in ballots, which in Pennsylvania are absentee ballots. By the end of the week, Biden has finally overcome his huge deficit and overtaken Trump.

Georgia finds ballots in Fulton County to put Biden into a small lead that withstands the trickling in of outlying areas where the votes are heavily Trump.

As it customary for it, Arizona continues counting for a week, as Maricopa County and the outlying areas send in small tranches of ballots. "Maricopa Incoming!" is a trope among local election watchers here. It is not an activity for those with weak nerves. Many expect Trump will take the lead, given the source of remaining votes, but Biden hangs out with a supposed victory of around 10,000.

(within the last few days) Biden's lead in Arizona is cut to 4,000-6,000 as a tranche of Trump-only votes is found uncounted from the Dominion machines.