No, as I explained before. Many people who voted for Biden voted via mail. Their ballots had to be opened, checked and scanned into the system. Large batch uploads at night. Like most big data processing. Mail ballots could only be opened on or after Election Day. Because the election staff was not permitted to open ballots before Election Day. Many Trump voters cast their ballots on Election Day.

In addition, several states (I think including most of the close calls) had a requirement for mail-in and early votes to be counted last. So not just a slow process, by design the Biden votes came in last.

Yes. Perhaps I wasn’t so clear on that. For example, Pennsylvania’s Republican legislature required mail votes to be opened on/after Election Day.

This is the graph — look at the big blue pick of 150 thousand votes. I guess this the mail-in vote batch? It shows as 96% Baden which is very high, I think even Putin gets it much smaller.
Even though people were asked to vote by mail by the democrat side, people are asked to do many things and are often slow to respond. Having such a high number of Biden votes in a single and large batch is at least questionable and requires some checking. It still could be correct of course but it is not usual and should be checked, don’t you think?

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And what is your source for normal?
Or to put it another way, how do you know what is normal?

You are just making a fact-free assumption of what is "normal".

I wouldn't mind seeing at least one case appealed to SCOTUS, so Trump's hand-picked appointees can give him the slap-down he deserves. Conservative or not, they know the law and aren't going to just hand this to him on a silver platter because he fusses.

I think many people don't understand the complex process by which absentee/mail-in votes are processed. Keep in mind that unlike Election Day votes, absentee ballots first have to be processed before they can be opened and counted. Processing includes scanning the barcode, verifying the signature, ensuring there's a witness signature, etc.

It takes time to process a ballot, especially if the officials judging signatures (one from each major party) don't agree or if voters have left off important information. Most states' laws allow clerks to contact voters who have left off information and have the voter appear in person to correct whatever is wrong with the outer envelope. That's known as curing.

If someone wants the election to have been rigged in Biden's favor, they're going to perceive it as such -- regardless of a lack of evidence. Trump did a fine job of implanting that idea in people's minds, prior to the election. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I think that 20-30 years from now, people are going to look back on Trump and wonder how the hell he was even 'allowed' to come to power. Perhaps a bit like Germans think of Hitler now. "What the HELL were we thinking???" Trump is going to go down in history as the national 'face palm.'

The problem is your graph is incorrect, How a Michigan election map with false information went viral.

Erroneous Michigan vote map

We are used to other EF colleagues sharing false information but you are usually better than this.

It was checked, no? And found to be erroneous data, later corrected.

At any rate, when loading data, you’re going to find variation - one batch may be 90%, the next 50% - and this is all perfectly normal and to be expected. 90 and 50 averages out to 70, if the batch sizes are equal, btw.

Ok thanks, I didn’t know this was already found to be wrong and corrected.
When loading data, variations could be expected in both ways, but the larger the batch size, the less likely the big variation. Seeing this big batch with 96% of Biden votes just doesn’t look right, good to know it was corrected. I will try to find the updated graph, wondering how the count went after the error was corrected.

Here is the updated info for Shiawassee county. Notice that Trump won:
Biden 15,437
Trump 23,149

NYT article correcting (paywall):
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/t...gan-votes.html

Quote from the article: Link to data source within the article:
https://www.electionreporting.com/co...5-85d0c6a3adc0

Reports on media site on election night and even on county/state websites are all unofficial until audits and canvasses are conducted. Audits and canvasses are intended to catch this kind of stuff.

Perhaps, Donald Trump is, I want to say in danger of, but I think it's already too far gone, losing all sense of reality. This is exactly what he used to his great advantage in 2016 when the Democrats and mainstream media had some sort of collective meltdown and started turning to crazy conspiracy theories to try and explain his election victory.

You say that Donald Trump's behaviour is akin to a spoiled child. Well this is what happens when the past four years have been spent delegitimising the election result and democratic process. Why shouldn't the Republicans just spend the next four doing the same thing? That's how it works now isn't it?

It starts with your first sentence "I don't think this is unprecedented at all", well I've news for you, IT IS! Unprecedented in the turn out, unprecedented in the number of mail votes, unprecedented in how the count went, unprecedented voting patterns etc.

It all boils back to reality, and when each sides perception of the truth and reality is SO distorted, how are they ever going to see eye to eye? If you think the last four years were bad, you're not going to like what comes next.

I stand by my statement. Given the effort put forth, this is not unprecedented. This is the sort of turnout one should have for a national election. And given the pandemic, mail in voting is a viable option. For the rest, I really don’t know what you’re on about.

I don’t know how the next four years will be. I guess we’ll have to see.

Sadly you are correct. That is exactly what Trump has been doing, starting from him claiming he won the popular vote but it is no reason for Biden to attempt the same nonsense.

Starting from his claim the previous election was rigged and that he'd accept the result...if he won.

Posted here just in case you hadn't yet seen this one:
Donny Goes to School - The President Show - Comedy Central
https://youtu.be/Th5uVIhQ8VY

The Trump comedy legal team continues along its chaotic way.
Source

A staunch ally of Donald Trump, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, said Trump has failed to provide any evidence of fraud, that his legal team was in shambles and that it's time to put the country first.
"Quite frankly, the conduct of the President's legal team has been a national embarrassment," he said.

“The bigger the lie, the more it is believed.” –Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.

There are days this stuff just feels unreal.