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Also, the Wisconsin law in question doesn't talk about seconds. It just says the paperwork in question must be filed "not later than 5 p.m." The fact that it uses the terminology "not later than" implies that it is possible for a filing to be made at exactly 5 p.m., which means we are not constructing time as an infinitely granular, continuous, dimension but rather as something measurable in discrete intervals. So then the question is how precise our measure is, and I think the plain English understanding of "not later than 5 p.m." would include stuff filed while a digital clock read 5:00 and not stuff filed after it read 5:01.

Beyond that, you also have serious problems with the question of whose clock we are using. Clocks can be off by 14 seconds. It's scarcely believable that we would be okay with an election being decided like this.

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