going to + perfect infinitive

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"Its now -- the votes are going to have been taken here shortly. And hopefully we can move on and work on other things that the country needs to have addressed."

Would this be a frequent use in contemporary English? Would there be regional preferences?
 

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You can't use the perfect infinitive if the votes haven't been taken yet.

'The votes are going to be taken here shortly.'

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1)"If this is a situation where we are going to have been in water, how am I going to do it with her?"

2)"We don't think that it's even good for the country because we don't think they're going to get neither peace nor security from this, just -- and it's not, you know -- we don't think, in the end, it's going to have done any good for the country."

Is it typical of contemporary English to use "going to'' for "will" in such grammatical structures? Would there be any regional preferences?
 
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I nearly joined in with this thread and then I realised it's the "going to" vs "will" argument again. I've learnt my lesson on that one!
 

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So there wouldn't be any difference between "going to have been" and "will have been" or "going to have done" and "will have done in sentences 1) and 2) in post #3?
 

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"We don't think that it's even good for the country because we don't think they're going to get [STRIKE]n[/STRIKE]either peace [STRIKE]n[/STRIKE]or security from this, just -- and it's not, you know -- we don't think, in the end, it's going to have done any good for the country."
Note my correction of neither and nor.
So there wouldn't be any difference between "going to have been" and "will have been" or "going to have done" and "will have done in sentences 1) and 2) in post #3?
There is the normal difference in meaning so often discussed in these forums. In this particular sentence, as sometimes happens, the difference is not particularly significant.
 

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I got you. Thanks. But I pulled those sntences up from COCAE.
 
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