I've posted this on a couple of different threads, but I think it is important to start a separate thread on the topic so it is easily seen and found.
We have a duty as intelligent conservatives to be properly informed, and not spread blatant falsehoods about this recent election.
One blatant falsehood - which is snopes-worthy - is that not all absentee ballots are going to be counted, and that, if they were, Hillary would actually lose the popular vote.
This is simply not true.
Go here:
https://www.fvap.gov/vao/vag/appendix/faq...and look for this quote...
What are absentee ballots? Do they only count in close elections?
Many absentee ballots are cast by voters who are unable to vote at their physical polling place due to being an active duty military member, a family member of someone on active duty or a U.S. citizen residing overseas. All ballots submitted according to State laws are counted in every election.
The media often will report the projected outcome of the election before all of the ballots are counted. In a close election, the media may report that the outcome cannot be announced until after the absentee ballots are counted. However, all ballots, including absentee ballots, are counted in the final totals for every election ? and every vote (absentee or in-person) counts the same.
All ballots WILL be counted and included in the vote totals that will be certified by the Secretaries of State.
At this point, though, all ballots are not counted,
but they will be. Moreover, there is evidence to suggest that Hillary's popular vote lead will actually EXPAND once all ballots are counted. See this link:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/clintons-popular-vote-lead-will-grow-and-grow/507455/While exact numbers of how this will truly tally up are unknown, please do not rely on some BS internet statistic about how "67% of all absentee ballots go conservative." As everyone should know by now, 93.4% of all internet statistics are completely made up.
But, when you take a look at where the majority of those absentee ballots remain uncounted, you can see that they are in democratic strongholds where Trump got *trounced*. It is a mistake to believe that somehow these absentee ballots will break for Trump.
Maybe we should wait for the real numbers, though, and stop making this site look ill-informed in general, by hanging our hat on a myth that ballots will not eventually be counted and certified with the totals. This is the kind of stuff we laugh at DU for doing - being wildly misinformed!