#dontbelievethesteal — Public Fediverse posts

Dear all, I think you all know there's an #election in the #USA coming up on Tuesday. If you haven't already voted, if you are eligible, please please #Vote

The thing that I want to talk about, though, is the #RedMirage phenomenon, which is what happens when the more rural republican regions turn in their results first, because they have largely voted in person, and there are fewer voters in those rural regions.

So results start out red when the first counties report.

Then, the more-urban areas, which tend to vote democratic, start reporting the counts of the vote-by-mail ballots, which happens more slowly because of the volume of ballots and voters. This second wave of vote reporting is called the #BlueShift and it was used in 2020 to call the election results into doubt.

#DontBelieveTheSteal

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/06/nx-s1-5141959/electoral-college-map-what-is-blue-shift-red-mirage