>>>>>Our local NPR stations (yeah, I listen to it, but just to remind myself how biased they are) carried a story that there were fliers being distributed somewhere that said that due to the expected large turnout of voters that Republicans should vote on Tuesday and Democrats on Wednesday. I think it's a good idea.
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>>>>This happens every time. And some actually fall for it!
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>>>But I think that tactics that require thinking in order to vote suppress turnout and unfairly target Democrats ;-)
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>>You may actually be right. But the votes count just the same ;-)
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>I thought the votes only sort of counted. Is the electoral college required by law to elect the person the people voted for?

About half the states have laws to prevent electors from voting against the way their state went. In theory the electors can do so if they are from the other states. In practice this has only happened rarely. Electors are party insiders in the first place so not likely to cross over to the dark side, so to speak.