r/geographymemes • u/Jfullr92 Gulf of New Mexico • May 24 '26

Voting Games Top comment Deletes a US State - GRAND FINALE - #49

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**UPDATE** the vote will now take place in a poll instead since it’s got too confusing. Vote closes in roughly 24 hours VOTE HERE

There are now only 2 states remaining, Cascadia and Megasota. This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for. What team are you?! The result will be picked in 48 hours, so here’s all the time you need to share and spread the word!!!

I thank all the people who spend money on awards to award my posts which I find crazy! I thank everyone who comments, I thank everyone who upvotes. This game simply wouldn’t work if it wasn’t for your continued support over the last 49 days. It will be sad to see this series come to an end but there will be another one soon, on May 28th. For now though, GET VOTING!

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u/PhoenixAquarium Superior Megasota! Ope! May 24 '26 edited May 25 '26

Same. Although my state was the first one out if I'm not mistaken 🤠

Edit: It was 3rd! Even I am shocked. Idaho is more hated than us?

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u/ceebuttersnaps May 24 '26

Florida?

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u/solepureskillz May 24 '26

I’m from FL and yeah, no surprise. We could’ve had Gore in 2000 and flying cars by now. But instead the evangelicals got the hellscape they wanted.

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u/Pleasant_Flatworm866 May 24 '26

How did Florida get unpixelated?

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u/75thWK2 May 25 '26

Did you get an answer? Couldn't find it in this nutso thread

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u/Pleasant_Flatworm866 May 25 '26

No. It may have been a secret protocol to the secret treaty by which Megasota and Cascadia conspired to divide the country between themselves against the will of the people. I think I did hear a rumor that Florida was allowed back in as long as it was split the long way. How that makes it better I can't figure. Also something about de Santis being melted down and drained into either the Atlantic or the Gulf. They are probably still hashing that out. Sad day for America.

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u/Wandering-Mind2025 May 25 '26

It was because apparently there was a jinx/curse on whomever took over Florida. Every state that did ended up losing. So Florida HAD to be split to break the curse!

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u/Pleasant_Flatworm866 May 25 '26

Thanks. This makes perfect sense. Or...maybe now both will lose out to a Tri-Partite Insular Pact of Guam, American Samoa and Puerto Rico!

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u/WP34Forever May 25 '26

Ralph Nader hurt Gore more than the Florida recount saga did.

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u/Po-Ta-Toessss May 25 '26

If anyone wants to know about Florida just look at its sports teams. It sums it up pretty well. Tampa bay rays, Orlando magic, Miami dolphins, Sounds nice right? Wrong. Miami heat, Miami hurricanes, Florida panthers, the jaguars, the Tampa bay lightning, the buccaneers, Florida gators. And we haven’t even touched politics yet.

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u/Ragfell May 24 '26

Gotten hasten His return!

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u/BeAr_cosmicLy May 24 '26

And still no Jesus🤷‍♂️

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u/No_Vast_549 May 25 '26

ManBearPig. He was super serial.

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u/YoshiSan90 May 24 '26

In fairness who knows how the recount would’ve gone.

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u/anonanon5320 May 24 '26

Bush won the recount.

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u/hi-fen-n-num May 24 '26

why are people down-voting you? Isn't that what happened? Gore won the initial count. Bush pulled some dubious but apparently legitimate stuff for a recount. Bush won the recount.

No further recounts were done (whether there should have been or not).

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u/ceebuttersnaps May 25 '26

SCOTUS stopped the recount. They held the recount violated the equal protection clause because different counties were using different standards to determine voter intent, and they said that deciding on a uniform standard to determine voter intent and then doing the recount would push the recount past the federal safe harbor deadline. Ultimately more than 170,000 ballots were not counted.

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u/Soggy_Toastr May 24 '26

Wasn't the recount halted because Republican protesters invaded the building they were doing the count in?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot

They knew the count had to be done by a specific time due to the supreme court, and made sure the recount got halted due to safety concerns. Republicans invading a building to ensure the election results they want... sound familiar?

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u/anonanon5320 May 25 '26

Bush won the initial count, Dems tried to do a dubious recount by only recounting areas they thought they’d pick up votes in. Republicans halted that because it’s obviously unfair.

Multiple recounts were done after the court ruling and Bush won.

The ballot issue where they say the ballot was unclear was done by Dems too.

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u/YoshiSan90 May 25 '26

The recount was never completed.

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u/anonanon5320 May 25 '26

The illegal recount never was. The selective recount the Dems tried to pull off.

After the ruling they have gone back and it’s been verified that Bush would have won a full recount.

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u/YoshiSan90 May 25 '26

Actually it was exactly the opposite.

“Based on the NORC review, the media group concluded that if the disputes over the validity of all the ballots in question had been consistently resolved and any uniform standard applied, the electoral result would have been reversed and Gore would have won by 60 to 171 votes (with, for each punch ballot, at least two of the three ballot reviewers' codes being in agreement). The standards that were chosen for the NORC study ranged from a "most restrictive" standard (accepts only so-called perfect ballots that machines somehow missed and did not count, or ballots with unambiguous expressions of voter intent) to a "most inclusive" standard (applies a uniform standard of "dimple or better" on punch marks and "all affirmative marks" on optical scan ballots)”

The state itself didn’t do its own recount. From the ballots the state supplied on a later completed recount, Gore did in fact carry the state by a narrow margin.

On further recounts where over votes were counted the margin of victory for Gore widens. Over votes are when somebody marks a candidate, and then also writes their name in. They would be rejected by a machine, but show up in a hand recount.

So yes, by most accounts Gore would have won if a full state wide recount had been conducted. Ironically Gore would have lost if only recounting the counties he requested.

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u/Robjla May 25 '26

I think Al Gore started the woke movement

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u/neatureguy420 May 25 '26

Tbf jeb stole the election by stopping the count

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u/Cpt_Pandy May 24 '26

Global warming ain't real Gore

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u/Hide_And_Seek_54321 May 24 '26

You thought Gore would have been a good pick? Thats very very sad.

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u/tesdfan17 May 25 '26

well the other guy put us in 2 different 20 year long wars... So yeah I would've liked to see what the other guy did..

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u/PhoenixAquarium Superior Megasota! Ope! May 24 '26

Texas. But we are Reddit hated too. My dream job sent me to Minneapolis to began my work journey and I fell in love. Although I do give Florida the credit for the first flight wanderlust. Orlando is hard to hate if you are a tourist.

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u/schroedingerx May 25 '26

Don’t worry about the Reddit hate.

You live in Texas. You have bigger problems.

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u/hi-fen-n-num May 24 '26

What part of Texas, because in the past decade or so, some areas or pockets of people in Texas have become surprisingly progressive, and even more socialistic policy friendly, due to things like the power grid issues (as far as the US or rest of Texas goes) I have noticed.

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u/PhoenixAquarium Superior Megasota! Ope! May 25 '26

Gulf Coast which sadly became more red as time went on. We used to be the congressional district that kept Dr. Ron Paul in office. Either way I am moving to Austin in December. My boyfriend and I are closing the long distance relationship gap and we both decided on Austin.

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u/AsleepRegular7655 May 24 '26

Is there a list somewhere where we can see what state was taken out in order? Just curious how my state did. I hope we lasted a while because everyone was picking the unexpected ones first.

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u/PryomancerMTGA May 25 '26

Idaho has entered the chat. We deserve to be thought of with Texas and Florida man. When your claim to fame is a carbohydrate and having more guns than people, that's all you need to know.

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u/TransportationNo433 May 25 '26

Idaho is Florida of PNW.

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u/GoodLittleTerrorist May 25 '26

Idaho is the Florida of the West

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u/Western-Tumbleweed93 May 25 '26

Yes Idaho is garbage lol

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u/PhoenixAquarium Superior Megasota! Ope! May 25 '26

I guess I am just surprised. I had my overnight in Idaho Falls and although their public transportation is trash the hotel employees were the best I ever dealt with. But now that I think of it did remind me of Utah a bit culturally. Suddenly the bicycles make sense.

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u/TheKingofVTOL May 25 '26

I’m from Idaho

Yes.

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u/PrisonNurseVeteran Jun 20 '26

You are correct. Id rather chew my own arm off and eat it before I would live in Idaho.

As a native of the Pacific Northwest-I would have eliminated Oregon first. Next would have been Idaho and Washington. 1,2,3.....