DGRossetti
"Most of the madness this time round has been because Trumpists saw the early counts and thought they were the results, not realising that until the counts from mail-in voting were completed as well the half-way results didn't, well, count."
I respectfully disagree. You are dealing with people who are acting as if they are possessed - or following a religion.
I should have said "much of". I have heard a lot of Trump supporters on the radio who are saying "we were way ahead when I went to sleep and then when I got up in the morning he was ahead, so during the night they must have sneaked in a lot of illegal votes for him" or wtte. Because it went one way and then the other, it is a lot easier for people who want to think they were robbed to think so. If something is presented as a one-off fact, it's less simple to deny without looking silly even to oneself.
I have not in this country ever heard anyone say anything of that sort; we don't get any results until we get the whole result for a given constituency, so we don't get the see-saw and repeated hope-despair cycle. Well, I did once live in a constituency where there were several recounts because there were only ten votes in it, but the public were not told which way it had gone before each recount, only the final decision.
The people you speak of, for whom the Orange Otang is Jim Jones, will claim it's a fake when Trump stumbles senile to his grave shouting madly about having to stop things which happened fifty years ago; the less completely loopy ones would have less to feed their folly if it were not handed to them so readily.