Election Day Schedule and Sources of Returns?

[Joe Biden 2020]

What is your schedule for this Tuesday from the time you wake up, to the time you plan to vote, work, and then how long and when you plan to watch Election Night Coverage and what sources will you use to receive the results.  End the schedule with your bed time Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.

This is my schedule on Election Day 2014:

0500 - Wake Up
0800 - Work
1700 - Drive Home
1745 - Turn on CNN and plop down in the recliner with my laptop in my lap.
2245 - Bed time

I plan to watch CNN and CNN.com for the national returns as well as use a Tulsa and an OKC news website (probably the NBC affiliates of both markets) for the local and state returns.  I may also use Politico for national returns so I can have the county maps.

[SWE]

Wake Up
Stare at atlas for the rest of the day
Go to sleep

[Flake]

0530 Wake up
0535 Brush my teeth
0540 Shower
0600 Finish up homework
0700 leave for school
0720 begin first period
0740 misunderstand symbolism
0815 check phone
0820 arrive late to second period
0835 why are the federalists doing that what
0900 third period
0910 why dont you people understand that h is silent is spanish
0912 no thats not how you say llamo you're terrible at this
1004 period four
1020 wow look at the fertility rate drop in bangladesh, ffs
1100 food
1140 period five
1141 i hate math so much
1142 i wish this class wasnt a requirement
1241 period 6
1340 period 7
1345 i wonder how the cow is doing
1346 what unsanitary creatures
1435 drive home
1500-1900 checks polls frantically
1900-? politics

did i do the schedule right

[Joe Biden 2020]

0530 Wake up
0535 Brush my teeth
0540 Shower
0600 Finish up homework
0700 leave for school
0720 begin first period
0740 misunderstand symbolism
0815 check phone
0820 arrive late to second period
0835 why are the federalists doing that what
0900 third period
0910 why dont you people understand that h is silent is spanish
0912 no thats not how you say llamo you're terrible at this
1004 period four
1020 wow look at the fertility rate drop in bangladesh, ffs
1100 food
1140 period five
1141 i hate math so much
1142 i wish this class wasnt a requirement
1241 period 6
1340 period 7
1345 i wonder how the cow is doing
1346 what unsanitary creatures
1435 drive home
1500-1900 checks polls frantically
1900-? politics

did i do the schedule right

You pulled a Bushie on the schedule.  Good job!!  What sources do you plan on using to get your returns in the evening?

[Flake]

0530 Wake up
0535 Brush my teeth
0540 Shower
0600 Finish up homework
0700 leave for school
0720 begin first period
0740 misunderstand symbolism
0815 check phone
0820 arrive late to second period
0835 why are the federalists doing that what
0900 third period
0910 why dont you people understand that h is silent is spanish
0912 no thats not how you say llamo you're terrible at this
1004 period four
1020 wow look at the fertility rate drop in bangladesh, ffs
1100 food
1140 period five
1141 i hate math so much
1142 i wish this class wasnt a requirement
1241 period 6
1340 period 7
1345 i wonder how the cow is doing
1346 what unsanitary creatures
1435 drive home
1500-1900 checks polls frantically
1900-? politics

did i do the schedule right

You pulled a Bushie on the schedule.  Good job!!  What sources do you plan on using to get your returns in the evening?

http://conservativepoliticalforum.com/

[Indy Texas]

Tuesday, November 4th, 2014: Election Day in America
4:25 am - Wake up, get ready
5:30 am - be at elementary school gym to work polls
6 am - 6 pm - work polls (lunch should be delivered around 11 or noon)
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm - pack up voting station
6:40 pm - get home
6:45 pm - - crash on couch with laptop, dinner, water, and flip channels to watch election returns.

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Wednesday, November 5th, 2014: The Morning After
1:45 am - commit suicide because it's taking. so. freaking. goddamn. long. to. call. these. races. and. why. aren't. they. going. my. way. oh. my. God. this. sucks. I. hate. my. life.

You're a poll worker this year? Why are you depriving some senior citizen of the opportunity to take 20 minutes to look people's names up and give hapless looks of confusion when someone has a problem with the voting machines?

[ElectionsGuy]

Monday: Sleep all day (after school)

Tuesday:
Up to 3:00 PM - As usual
3 to 5 PM - Check polls, watch TV
5 PM to 6 AM - Watch election results come in

Wednesday: Sleep all day (after school)

Thursday and on: Post-election evaluations

[Nutmeg]

0500 - Wake Up
0800 - Work
1700 - Drive Home
1745 - Turn on CNN and plop down in the recliner with my laptop in my lap.
2245 - Bed time

You might be able to actually see more election results if you weren't on such an early schedule...

[Joe Biden 2020]

0500 - Wake Up
0800 - Work
1700 - Drive Home
1745 - Turn on CNN and plop down in the recliner with my laptop in my lap.
2245 - Bed time

You might be able to actually see more election results if you weren't on such an early schedule...

I wish i could stay up a lot later Tuesday night, but I don't dare miss Day 3 of my new job on Wednesday...

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Doing this Flo style.

6:00 AM: Wake up, shower.
6:45 AM: In line at precinct, vote.
7:00-7:30 AM: Vote, depends on line.
7:30-7:50 AM: Get to school.
7:50 AM-8:48 AM: Art Class. Continue painting the picture of me holding the chicken statue.
8:53 AM-9:42 AM: Business Law; big debate on Capital Punishment in which I am leading a team.
9:42 AM-9:50 AM: Break; eat two brownies that I buy from my Business Law teacher (who also teaches drama and chorus and fundraises through this method).
9:55 AM-10:43 AM: Humanities III; dominate discussions on the elections/current events and get a bunch of “Max for President” cat calls like usual.
10:48 AM-11:36 AM: AP English; continue to be the lone senior in a room filled with awesome juniors who are actually decent people.
11:41 AM-12:34 PM: Economics. God help me, the people suck and I don’t want another shrill lecture on what a credit card is from the teacher.
12:34 PM-12:58 PM: Lunch. Will press my voting age friends on who they voted for and mock them for early voting.
1:03 PM-1:53 PM: Dumb kids math. The worst class of the day, with the worst people. Will try and make small talk in a desperate attempt to save a failed friendship with my friend who hates me and spends the class flirting with this other guy and trading barbs with our teacher, who is borderline Bushie.
1:58 PM-2:50 PM: Study Hall; sit in front of the computer pretending to be on Florida Virtual School class, most likely will be writing really bad poetry or listing every band I’ve ever heard or every single Bob Dylan song I can imagine on a sheet of paper to pass the time.
2:51 PM: Get in car, light up cigarette #1 (or 2, depends if I get bored and have one while waiting in line to vote).
2:52 PM: Park at red light at Gateway and High Ridge, make conversation with friend who hates me when she pulls her car up next to mine. We usually are both smoking in our cars at this point and this is the only time we ever speak.
2:58: Get home.
2:59: Turn computer on, get on Atlas.
2:59-6:30 PM: On and off Atlas, until it goes down.
6:30 PM: Go over to my grandma’s house.
6:30 PM-11:00 PM: Watch returns with Grandma, Great Aunt and Uncle.
11:00 PM-2:00 AM: Watch results at home, post on Atlas, glote/bitch on Facebook.
2:00 AM: Sleep. I learned my lesson from staying up too late during the Scotland vote .

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Tuesday, November 4th, 2014: Election Day in America
4:25 am - Wake up, get ready
5:30 am - be at elementary school gym to work polls
6 am - 6 pm - work polls (lunch should be delivered around 11 or noon)
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm - pack up voting station
6:40 pm - get home
6:45 pm - - crash on couch with laptop, dinner, water, and flip channels to watch election returns.

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Wednesday, November 5th, 2014: The Morning After
1:45 am - commit suicide because it's taking. so. freaking. goddamn. long. to. call. these. races. and. why. aren't. they. going. my. way. oh. my. God. this. sucks. I. hate. my. life.

You're a poll worker this year? Why are you depriving some senior citizen of the opportunity to take 20 minutes to look people's names up and give hapless looks of confusion when someone has a problem with the voting machines?

They actually heavily recruit at the high school because one of the Government teachers is (predictably) a politics junkie, so it's a hilariously unworkable team of elderly women and high school kids.

And $100 for 12 hours is $8.33 an hour. Not bad.

Wait, wait, wait!?!?!?! They pay you that much!! I was planning on working the polls this year but gave up on the idea a month ago because I remember Cathcon did it all day and only made around $20, and my precinct is pretty busy so it wouldn't be easy work either .

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

The current election night drinking game my friends and I are running:

shot every time a gubernatorial seat changes parties
shot every time a senatorial seat changes parties

It's going to be glorious.

[Flake]

Tuesday, November 4th, 2014: Election Day in America
4:25 am - Wake up, get ready
5:30 am - be at elementary school gym to work polls
6 am - 6 pm - work polls (lunch should be delivered around 11 or noon)
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm - pack up voting station
6:40 pm - get home
6:45 pm - - crash on couch with laptop, dinner, water, and flip channels to watch election returns.

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Wednesday, November 5th, 2014: The Morning After
1:45 am - commit suicide because it's taking. so. freaking. goddamn. long. to. call. these. races. and. why. aren't. they. going. my. way. oh. my. God. this. sucks. I. hate. my. life.

You're a poll worker this year? Why are you depriving some senior citizen of the opportunity to take 20 minutes to look people's names up and give hapless looks of confusion when someone has a problem with the voting machines?

They actually heavily recruit at the high school because one of the Government teachers is (predictably) a politics junkie, so it's a hilariously unworkable team of elderly women and high school kids.

And $100 for 12 hours is $8.33 an hour. Not bad.

Wait, wait, wait!?!?!?! They pay you that much!! I was planning on working the polls this year but gave up on the idea a month ago because I remember Cathcon did it all day and only made around $20, and my precinct is pretty busy so it wouldn't be easy work either .

Maybe it would be less busy if Scott expanded early voting days and voting hours, but if he's re-elected the polling place will be even busier next election because of him and presidential turnout.

maybe dont vote for him

[Lief 🗽]

9:00 Wake up, reset alarm clock to 9:30, go back to sleep.
9:30 Wake up, hit snooze button.
9:39 Wake up, hit snooze button.
9:48 Wake up, start reading twitter/Atlas in bed.
10:04 Get out of bed, go to bathroom, poop
10:15 Get in shower
10:26 Get out of shower
10:33 Leave apartment
10:44 Get to class four minutes late, read the internet, hope I don't get cold called
12:00 Leave class, go to see Joe Scarborough give a talk for lunch
1:00 Leave Joe Scarborough talk, skim the reading for class
1:21 Arrive at class one minute late, read twitter on my phone while taking notes (no laptops allowed in this class)
2:40 Get out of class, walk to campus cafe, see if there are any good snacks to buy
2:46 Give up on finding a good snack
2:49 Arrive at class one minute early, read the internet while not really paying attention to lecture, follow the Champions League match on twitter
4:10 Go down to the school lounge, find a dodgy stream of the Champions League match, watch the last twenty minutes of it
4:30 Go on the Arsenal reddit and post about the game
5:00 Walk on home
5:10 Get to the polling place a block from my apartment, probably spend 10 minutes voting
5:20 Get home, put a Whole Foods frozen pizza in the oven
5:23 Go to the bathroom
5:27 Flush the toilet
5:28 Get a glass of water
5:35 Start eating pizza
5:41 Finish eating pizza
5:42 Wash plate pizza was on and knife used to cut pizza
5:45 Go to room, go on twitter and Atlas forum for the rest of the night

[Keystone Phil]

Wake up by 6:30
Work my polling place for awhile/vote
Knock on doors in my precinct
Help out a candidate in another area of the city
Watch some Champions League action
Knock on doors/work my polling place again
Check in at a local GOP gathering
Follow returns here and on TV

[Lambsbread]

8 am - wake up
830 am - vote
9 am - 1 pm - sleep
1 pm - go to mall to buy vinyl
230 pm - 5 pm - sleep
5 pm - 8 pm - internets
8 pm - midnight - glued to television

[JerryArkansas]

Wake up at 5
Pour over maps and early vote numbers 5-6:30
Get ready for school 6:30
Go to school 7:10
8-4 p.m., Be at school and half pay attention as I surf interwebs looking at election related stuff.
4-6, Do homework and take a few looks at Atlas
6 onwards, Surf Interwebs for results, Atlas, and go between CNN, Fox, and MSNBC on tv.

[morgieb]

Times in EST (US).

0700: Sleep
1600: Wake up, prepare myself for the day
1700: Frantically check Atlas, and when it goes down, IRC and maybe some other websites.
2030: Leave for lunch/psychologist.
2315: Return back home. Either rage or gloat (more likely the former).
0000: Remember this actually doesn't affect my country, so remove emotional attachment.

Also screw you for moving your clocks back. This schedule would've worked so much better if you had daylight savings (or we didn't).

[Tender Branson]

This:

* before 7pm on Tuesday: programme my hard-disk recorder to record "election night 2014"
* get to sleep at around 7pm and get up again slightly before 1am.
* turn on the TV and watch CNN until ca. 5am in the morning
* sleep another 2 hours or so
* get up

[© tweed]

What is your schedule for this Tuesday from the time you wake up, to the time you plan to vote

Bushie actually hit on something here.  I've worked on election day GOTV campaigns 3 times, and a proven effective way to ensure that somebody will vote is to have them plan out their day.  makes them far less likely to forget.

[Franzl]

7:30 Wake up
8:30 Polish language course
16:45 Int. Relations in Europe
18:30 Foreign Direct Investment
20:00 Get a tram home as quickly as possible
20:20 Turn CNN on as background noise while doing something productive.
0:00 Couch, beer, election results
ca. 4:00-4:30 Go to bed

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

In the office until 11:30am, head home and put on CNN with MSNBC stream on... have a couple of glasses of wine and make the chicken and leek pie for Wednesday night's dinner.

[Yelnoc]

6:00 Alarm goes off. Turn it off, roll over
6:09 Remember today is election day. Freak out, jump out of bed and into shower
6:32 Grab a bowl of cereal, read through today's GOTV plan to remind myself what the  I'm supposed to be doing
6:46 Get in car
6:52 Arrive at polling place early, wait in line with old people
7:02 Doors open, still waiting in line
7:08 Vote. Feel bad I don't know anything about the judges
7:14 Get back in car. Do 80 mph because I need to be Athens 10 minutes ago
7:31 Boss calls to check where we are on GOTV. She's panicky. Calm her down by telling her what an early start we got while stuck behind a HP SUV driver doing 70 in the passing lane
8:11 Park far away from campus where parking is free. Grab all my sh**t and start power walking
8:19 Get to staging location. Only one other person is there. sh**t. Hand him his clipboard and wish him luck
8:25 Once staging location is set, go grab breakfast from cafe. Pancakes and sausage, yum
8:41 Rework GOTV strategy to account for complete lack of manpower
9:10 Another canvasser shows up for less than half their shift. Give them clipboard, sans luck
9:37 Boss calls, still panicky, wants to send another organizer to Athens to help. Nonono, we're doing just fine here, thank you very much (please don't let them see what a mess this is)
10:35 Second canvasser leaves.
10:41 Go take pictures of first canvasser "for social media purposes" (to establish that we were indeed outside GOTVing at this date and time)
11:01 Canvasser arrives on time for their shift, hallelujah!
11:19 Since foot traffic is really picking up, I grab a clipboard and start canvassing
11:32 I'm bad at that. Go back to staging location and phonebank for a couple hours
12:04 Get a call from Atlanta organizer saying our boss sent her hear to help GOTV and she's just pulling into town- where should she park. Direct her to the free parking far away from campus
12:06 Call in all the favors I have to get friends, etc to show up and hold clipboards
12:23 Organizer gets to staging location, where we actually have a respectable presence. She asks me what I need. I don't need anything, so I say we need someone ready to drive people to the polls. She walks all the way back to her car
12:47 We actually find someone who needs a ride to his polling place. Call organizer so she can pick him up
12:53 Organizer arrives. Give her confusing directions to polling place
12:57 Walk over to Young Dems staging location to grab snacks and drinks for my team. Pretend not to hate everybody there.
1:00 Give everyone a snack break. Make the #1 priority pushing people to let us give them rides to the polls (easy enough to sell, we're in the last 6 hours, etc). Need to keep organizer busy
1:11 Organizer calls me, they're lost. Give better directions
1:49 Organizer returns. Two more people are waiting for rides. Plan is working out
2:08 Boss calls again. Everything is great, thanks for sending organizer, etc. How are things in Atlanta. Great! Flashmobs, stickers, chalk on side walks. Yeah, sounds like what we're doing here, totally
3:20 More of my people start showing up. Have a respectable sized team at this point
4:11 Foot traffic is very low, we're really wasting our time canvassing at this point. Decide to have everyone come to staging location and phone bank with me
4:32 Organizer returns from 5th poll run. No one is lined up. Can't keep here from coming down to staging location. She sees what little visible presence we have a flips out. Argue about how best to deploy resources for a while
4:51 Organizer says she's driving back to Atlanta, will tell boss about this. Great, whatever.
5:03 One of my canvassers mentions they haven't voted yet. Offer to drive them to the polls, they accept
6:08 Return to staging location, all but one canvasser has left. Offer to buy the two of them dinner from Barberitos (with company money, yes I can do that)
6:59 Say good buy to compatriots, go find a quiet space in the student center to plug in my laptop and check the elections coverage.
7:21 Boss calls, starts to chew me out based on what the organizer said, I hold my own, we end up chatting about the races, she think we have a decent shot of winning outright tonight. Don't jinx it...
7:49 Text friend of mine who works on the Carter campaign to see what she thinks about the races
8:01 Canvasser calls to ask where the party is. Say there is no party, sorry
8:37 Friend from Carter campaign calls me, says everyone seems to think we'll win, though she's not to optimistic. Invites me down to Atlanta for the party. What the hell, why not?
10:51 Get to 'the party.' It's pretty lame.
11:27 Cable news calls most of the races. We decide to go out and drink some more
3:00am Black out

[rpryor03]

6:45 Ignore Alarm
7:15 Shower, Breakfast, Check Atlas
7:45 Leave for School
8:15 Get to School
8:30 Physics! My teacher is a numbskull.
9:30 Language Arts! Fun time with APA.
10:30 Break and Lunch. What leftovers shall I have today?
12:15 Government. Talk about the elections.
1:15 Calculus. Trying to stay awake.
2:15 Engineering. Don't do anything
3:35 Leave School.
4:00 Get Back Home, Check Atlas until bed time. Watch ABC for election returns.
10:00 Bed. Hopefully. Maybe not.

[Vega]

Ha, I feel bad for all the people having to go to work/school on the 5th. I took my personal day today.

Election hangover, I call it.