I get it, 50% residents of one of the most influential countries on earth will be very upset, with a lot of geopolitic consequences.

But for some, we cant change the outcome in anyway, I hate the way content even on the Fediverse becomes. Yes its important but man. I was all into 2016 elections but it doesnt really change anything anyway. Americans go vote and all, though.

I just wanna talk about kernels and factorio, man

  • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    16 hours ago

    Do you know when the first reliable results will come in?

    I bet it will be quite late over here in the EU though 😔

    Edit: thank you both, guess I’ll see the results in the morning :-) or if I go pee in the middle of the night 😋

    • Charlatan@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      We won’t know the winner til Thurs eve or Friday. My money is on Friday.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      16 hours ago

      Depends on how close it is. 2020 was a bit chaotic on account of COVID; 2012 and 2016 were both decisively called before 5 AM EST.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      16 hours ago

      The first polls on the East Coast close at 2000, which will be 0100 Wednesday morning in the UK, 0200 CET.

      It will take a while to count up all the votes, though, particularly in states where they don’t start counting the mail-in vote until the election closes. I bet when you wake up on Wednesday we still won’t really know.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        4·
        15 hours ago

        Well, they’ll know how a lot of places will go, but this one will be probably close enough that I doubt that we’ll be able to make a solid call on the election as a whole very early.

        And always possible that there could be a Florida “hanging chads”-style challenge and effort to trigger recounts in any place that winds up extremely close in results, so that might extend it.