ELECTION DAY COVERAGE. Where to watch, what to discuss, and bonus predictions

[Dantrag]

7PM is when we start to see results?

[Katlan]

If Cruz loses I will be happy. That is all.

[Anoat]

7PM is when we start to see results?

Probably but those will mostly be based on exit polls until hard numbers start coming in around 8pm EST. Florida won’t be final likely until much later since it’s expected to be such a tight race and the polls in the central time zone areas not closing until 8pm EST.

[Gryffes]

Despite all the beto/cruz coverage Texas is still projected to have the lowest % vote turnout of any state ( per 538 ) .... lol.
( gubernotorial lowest - 4th lowest for senate )

[Zealot]

The attempted suppression efforts in Georgia I'm reading about are deflating. Basically black neighborhood = oops all the voting machines broke.

[Anoat]

I empathize because the shake machine is always broke when I want one.

[Dimmauk]

The attempted suppression efforts in Georgia I'm reading about are deflating. Basically black neighborhood = oops all the voting machines broke.

I heard people showed up early but they didn't turn on the machines till 11am, so people left.

[Niiro]

https://apnews.com/6fb6de6fdb034b889d301efd12602e21

ATLANTA (AP) — Problem signs that arose during weeks of early voting carried into Election Day as some voters across the country faced hours-long lines, malfunctioning voting equipment and unexpectedly closed polling places.

Some of the biggest backups were in Georgia, where the governor’s race was among the nation’s most-watched midterm contests and was generating heavy turnout.

One voter in Gwinnett County, Ontaria Woods, waited more than three hours and said she saw about two dozen people who had come to vote leave because of the lines.

“We’ve been trying to tell them to wait, but people have children. People are getting hungry. People are tired,” Woods said.

[Roranora]

working as intended it seems

hopefully Kemp gets <50% and this shit gets drawn out to December

[Cail]

Why we have another thread when we already had the Midterms thread...wtf is this!

[Lokus]

While Georgia seems to have the most issues with voting today and veiled voter suppression, intentional or not, it's not alone. Reading that some areas in NY, Brooklyn mainly from what I read, experiencing voter machine malfunctions/issues. One of these issues being that they didn't have power cords for the machines, tf. There was a location in AZ where the building that had the voting machines was foreclosed on and locked up last night so today no one could get into the building to vote so they had to be redirected to another location.

[Cail]

Forget if it was in this thread or not, but Customs + Border Patrol conducting riot training in Hispanic neighborhoods of El Paso today

[Cail]

Also, CT Sec of State reporting voter turnout around 40% as of 3pm

[Zetanio]

While Georgia seems to have the most issues with voting today and veiled voter suppression, intentional or not, it's not alone. Reading that some areas in NY, Brooklyn mainly from what I read, experiencing voter machine malfunctions/issues. One of these issues being that they didn't have power cords for the machines, tf. There was a location in AZ where the building that had the voting machines was foreclosed on and locked up last night so today no one could get into the building to vote so they had to be redirected to another location.

Brooklyn had a shitload of paper jams on the machines. Worried about the evening rush if they didn't get those up and running. Other locations were apparently way worse than mine.

[Xno Kappa]

Just got to my voting spot and the lines out the fucking door. Never seen it like this in the past 3 years the wifey and I have been voting here. This shit needs to be a federal holiday.

[AnnaMolly]

There was a location in AZ where the building that had the voting machines was foreclosed on and locked up last night so today no one could get into the building to vote so they had to be redirected to another location.

This seems like the type of thing someone somewhere would be in DEEP shit for.

[Niiro]

Lines are so long I only had time to vote once.

[Tyrath]

Just got to my voting spot and the lines out the fucking door. Never seen it like this in the past 3 years the wifey and I have been voting here. This shit needs to be a federal holiday.

It would be if one party didn't benefit from people not voting.

[Lokus]

Forget if it was in this thread or not, but Customs + Border Patrol conducting riot training in Hispanic neighborhoods of El Paso today

Article I read said that they canceled the planned exercise amid concerns that it would lead to voter suppression. But really, who plans that shit on Election Day to begin with.

[Cail]

Forget if it was in this thread or not, but Customs + Border Patrol conducting riot training in Hispanic neighborhoods of El Paso today

Cancelled just before it was to start

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/border-...se-in-el-paso/

The government agency that oversees border patrol has postponed an Election Day "crowd control exercise" today in El Paso, Texas, near a Hispanic neighborhood with about 100 residents. The exercise was to have taken place in the hometown of Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic Senate candidate who's running a tight race against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.

The Customs and Border Protection agency had scheduled the exercises at 10 a.m. Mountain Time. Shortly before they were about to start, officers on the scene said they were postponed.

The exercise, in El Paso's oldest neighborhood, was being called a "mobile field force demonstration." Media were invited to attend the event.

The neighborhood is near an area where officials recently began constructing part of President Trump's border wall. A week ago, the agency blocked the El Paso del Norte International Bridge in downtown El Paso to train for the arrival of the migrant caravan from Central America. A CBP spokesman said today's activities are "operational readiness exercises" related to preparing for the caravan, which is still hundreds of miles south of the border.