Your election night coverage survival kit

Instead of sending you "news" that will immediately become olds, we're giving you a guide to interpreting all the information that's going to get thrown at you tonight. Vox Sentences is written by [Dylan Matthews] and [Dara Lind]. TOP NEWS The Vox Sentences guide to watching election results [VOTING] Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images - Whenever you want: Tell Vox how you're feeling as our emotion tracker visualizes the national mood. [[Vox / Soo Oh and Kavya Sukumar]] - While the polls are open: Keep an eye out for any voting irregularities or reports of suppression in your state via the Electionland site, run by ProPublica with a consortium of other media outlets. [[Electionland / ProPublica]] - Early evening: Acquaint yourself with poll closing times — and get a sense of just how long you might be up tonight. [[NYT / Anjali Singhvi and Jugal K. Patel]] - At 5 pm Eastern and then as polls close: Check out the exit poll results as they come in — but beware that exit pollsters might not have accounted for early voting and don't have a great history with predicting the Latino vote. [[Vox / Dara Lind]] - As results roll in: Instead of getting overwhelmed by state results, check out Matt Yglesias's guide to which states to keep a close eye on. (Hint: It starts with Kentucky.) [[Vox / Matt Yglesias]] - Throughout the night: Watch the results roll in on a big board (CNN's is classic)...[[CNN]] - ...while playing bingo with the cable news coverage. [[Vox / Soo Oh, Javier Zarracina, Zachary Crockett, Agnes Mazur, and Lauren Katz]] - Waiting for a concession speech: Check out Politico's video compilation of concession speeches past — and keep your fingers crossed that this year's will be even half as gracious as past losers have been. [[Politico]] - If you need an excuse to go to bed: Read this post, which explains that the last ballots to be counted will likely favor Hillary Clinton — so if the election is too close to call tonight, that's good news for her. [[Washington Post / Charles Stewart III and Edward B. Foley]] - Looking ahead: Whatever you do, don't go to bed tonight thinking that this chapter in American life has ended. The effects of the past year and a half are going to persist for a very, very long time. [[Vox / Jenée Desmond-Harris]] MISCELLANEOUS This is how you shatter a glass ceiling: with a steel spike, or, alternatively, a diamond drill. [[Slate / Laura Wagner]] - Hey, wait a second. Why do we vote in booths anyway? [[Atlas Obscura / Sarah Laskow]] - Time zones. They're bad. Let's get rid of them. [[NYT / James Gleick]] - On the mysterious metallic leaves of the peacock begonia plant. [[The Atlantic / Ed Yong]] - In 1991, Chicago police cleared more than 80 percent of homicides. Last year, they barely cleared a quarter. [[Washington Post / Kimbriell Kelly, Wesley Lowery, and Steven Rich]] VERBATIM "We already knew that zombies are murderous reanimated heaps of putrid rotting flesh; worse yet, it appears they are also racist." [[McSweeney's / Vijith Assar]] - "There’s no global network of girlfriends who want to rule the world." [[Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg to Bloomberg / Patrick Donahue]] - "In 2012, the Obama campaign brought in top talent from Google and Catalist, a Democratic data firm, to estimate the results of the election in real time. The early results did not look good for Mr. Obama. … Elan Kriegel, now the analytics director of the Clinton campaign, left for the bathroom to throw up." [[NYT / Nate Cohn]] - "In Hawaii, the land value tax was blamed for overdevelopment in locations such as Waikiki, where singer Joni Mitchell was inspired to write the lyrics 'They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.' The land value tax was abolished there in the mid-1970s." [[Lincoln Institute]] - "Town clerks can choose the tie-breaking method for local elections. But, for years, the go-to method for the Secretary of State has been an old leather bottle and numbered balls. The two candidates pick a ball and drop it into the bottle. The bottle is shaken and the first ball to roll out of the neck is declared the winner." [[Eagle-Tribune / James Niedzinski]] WATCH THIS [Neo-Nazis explain why they like Donald Trump] [Watch this (it's really good).] Four days before the US presidential election, white supremacists gathered for a rally in Pennsylvania. 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