# Election Day Omnibus thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 4, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683 "2024-11-04T20:15:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/301 "2024-11-05T22:30:21Z")
I took a 20 minute walk, but stopped to vote, and was back in 30 minutes. I put my “I Voted Sticker” on a nearby neighbors “Harris/Waltz” sign. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/302 "2024-11-05T22:33:13Z")
Why am I STILL getting email pleas for campaign donations at 5:30 EST? What could they possibly do with that money? ---
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/303 "2024-11-05T22:34:28Z")
Pay for the inevitable legal challenges. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/304 "2024-11-05T22:36:37Z")
Hey, I love my stickers. I grabbed all the families before the actual toddlers here got them. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/305 "2024-11-05T22:38:11Z")
With 90 minutes before the polls close, St. Louis County Missouri says 65% of registered voters have voted. Election officials are projecting 73%-75% when it’s all over. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/306 "2024-11-05T22:40:11Z")
I found this interesting… Not very surprising, but still interesting data. [https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/election-results-2024/#post-update-5da06312](https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/election-results-2024/#post-update-5da06312) The link should go to an article on a scrolling feed titled: ## CBS News exit poll: Harris voters more confident the election will be conducted fairly than Trump voters But the polls themselves I found interesting. I’ll just post the pictures without the analysis, because I think they speak for themselves. [![](https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2024/11/05/941cf629-7253-44bd-a74f-923c87365af3/thumbnail/620x349/46d9b1c43701145506ca3d4edac4c966/image001.png?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7) ](https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2024/11/05/941cf629-7253-44bd-a74f-923c87365af3/thumbnail/620x349/46d9b1c43701145506ca3d4edac4c966/image001.png?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7) [![](https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2024/11/05/a258ca09-0fb3-42e8-baa9-833916ea30de/thumbnail/620x349/e0d5b956d978c7f518b78eaaa957e6fe/image002.png?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7) ](https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2024/11/05/a258ca09-0fb3-42e8-baa9-833916ea30de/thumbnail/620x349/e0d5b956d978c7f518b78eaaa957e6fe/image002.png?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7) [![](https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2024/11/05/0481f9ac-ab1f-4965-9bb8-8809d0f3067e/thumbnail/620x349/83e8c08dff629e376d30041cb468f47a/image003.png?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7) ](https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2024/11/05/0481f9ac-ab1f-4965-9bb8-8809d0f3067e/thumbnail/620x349/83e8c08dff629e376d30041cb468f47a/image003.png?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7) [![](https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2024/11/05/165890a1-ae49-4fa9-95aa-9fdeca92327c/thumbnail/620x349/4a1ec5a7f239cc5a3cc6eb22d270b985/image004.png?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7) ](https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2024/11/05/165890a1-ae49-4fa9-95aa-9fdeca92327c/thumbnail/620x349/4a1ec5a7f239cc5a3cc6eb22d270b985/image004.png?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7) [![](https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2024/11/05/7921d687-a94b-4c74-a2f8-bcfef20dad7e/thumbnail/620x349/03955c6670367e25dfef30cf5029449c/image005.png?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7) ](https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2024/11/05/7921d687-a94b-4c74-a2f8-bcfef20dad7e/thumbnail/620x349/03955c6670367e25dfef30cf5029449c/image005.png?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7) [![](https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2024/11/05/c029110c-46fc-4f93-b53e-de138faad9d2/thumbnail/620x349/35046060a45caaecf5138257990dff6a/image006.png?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7) ](https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2024/11/05/c029110c-46fc-4f93-b53e-de138faad9d2/thumbnail/620x349/35046060a45caaecf5138257990dff6a/image006.png?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7) I certainly identify with the first poll. My top priority since 2020 has been protecting democracy in this country, which the Republicans have been relentlessly attacking. And the result of that attack can be seen in the last two images. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/307 "2024-11-05T22:41:51Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Yeah, but you also get a free sausage. We can’t even get that. I see you’ve played sausagy-stickery before. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/308 "2024-11-05T22:48:36Z")
A worrying number for Oregon, only 55% of ballots have been received as of yesterday, This compares to 62% in 2016 and 73% in 2020. Multnomah County (which includes most of Portland and is something like 90% Dems) is only at 50%. Portland had a difficult ballot this year. We have a new form of city government with district-level council members instead of city wide, and the top three candidates in each district win. Plus, we just implemented ranked choice voting for mayor and council members. So in my district, I had 29 candidates (none of them incumbents) and I had to rank the top 6. It was not an easy ballot to fill out, especially if you wanted to do any research on the candidates. I fear this might suppress the Portland vote if people just give up on it, which would disproportionally favor Republican candidates in the state and national races. The results so far lend credence to this fear. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/309 "2024-11-05T22:54:33Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > > [@rocking\_chair](#): > > > > in philly we got the paper things recently. i really miss the old lever and ka chunk machines. you would pull this huge lever and the machine would go ka chunk and the curtains would part. > > That encouraged straight-party voting. Now, in Pa., even straight party voters have to vote for each office individually. I wonder if other states still have some big level equivalent. No, what the huge lever did was open and close the curtain around the voting booth; and register the vote, whatever it was. Inside the booth there was a little individual lever for each candidate; just as easy to split vote as to vote straight line. IIRC it wouldn’t let you pull down too many levers – pulling down one for a given choice locked the others for that choice. No filling out bubbles, no wondering whether you’d filled them out right. (And it would have been easy enough to set them one way, take a picture, and then reset them before actually voting, because your vote wasn’t locked in until you pulled the large lever to open the curtain; until then you could change it. Pulling the large lever, in addition to opening the curtain, recorded the vote and reset all the levers to neutral.) Those machines didn’t generally overlap with people routinely having cameras in their pockets, though.) No paper ballot to keep in case of challenges, though. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/310 "2024-11-05T22:55:25Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > A worrying number for Oregon, only 55% of ballots have been received as of yesterday, This compares to 62% in 2016 and 73% in 2020. Multnomah County (which includes most of Portland and is something like 90% Dems) is only at 50%. There is a similar article about Washington State, but it offers an explanation. > **[Turnout for this year's election lagging behind 2020 numbers - but there are...](https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/elections/voter-turnout-2024-2020-general-election-washington/281-e375d6fb-8e38-4b25-ab7d-398936f7fe3e)** > > As of Friday, around 800,000 fewer ballots had been returned than at this time during the 2020 election, according to data from the Washington Secretary of State. > Though the lag is significant, the COVID-19 pandemic caused more people to vote early in 2020 than they would during a typical general election year, according to the Secretary of State’s database. So hold your concerns until all the ballots have been received. There may be more ballots received later this year than there was four years ago, and we don’t yet know what the total result will be. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/311 "2024-11-05T23:02:18Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > …hold your concerns… I am pretty much nothing but a giant ball of concerns at this point. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/312 "2024-11-05T23:03:53Z")
I now have, in my head and to some extent in my kinetic sense, an image of holding a huge ball of concerns as if they were frightened kittens, trying to comfort them; while not knowing whether it actually is going to be all right. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/313 "2024-11-05T23:04:05Z")
On YouTube and in other places I’ve been seeing recipes for an item called Election Cake. It supposedly was used at elections in the late 1700’s and earlier 1800’s… So when you voted you got a treat. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/314 "2024-11-05T23:04:26Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > I am pretty much nothing but a giant ball of concerns at this point. Yeah, and by the time they have counts for all of the ballots in on the west coast, we may have at least a good idea of who is going to be in the White House. (Maybe, we may not know for a while.) I just remember how strong the showing was in Washington in the primaries, so I’m not extremely worried about our local elections. Including who my ultimate boss will be next year (since I work in the executive branch of government). ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/315 "2024-11-05T23:04:36Z")
Some times and places I believe you got booze. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/316 "2024-11-05T23:05:34Z")
2 states are about to close. Shall we begin… ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/317 "2024-11-05T23:10:33Z")
Well, I’m about to open the bar here, so sure, why not? ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/318 "2024-11-05T23:15:06Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > > [@Atamasama](#): > > > > …hold your concerns… > > I am pretty much nothing but a giant ball of concerns at this point. I think all my concerns are now gathered in my stomach which has been making loud, angry growling noises as I am forced to consider what the outcome might be. I think it is time for a shower and some soothing medication. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/319 "2024-11-05T23:15:26Z")
> And so it begins. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683/320 "2024-11-05T23:16:43Z")
Another full day for philly police. Everyone has been called in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683.md?page=17)