Vox Sentences: Get caught up before Election Night

Election Day

A voter enters the voting booth at Bishop Leo E. O'Neil Youth Center November 4, 2014 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images)

• It's Election Day! For comprehensive coverage check out Vox's live blog.

  [Vox]

• Here's what time the polls close in your area.

  [Vox / Dylan Matthews and Tyson Whiting]

• Final predictions: There's an 80 percent chance Republicans take the Senate, with an average predicted margin of 52 to 48; Republicans are expected to keep the House, with forecasts on average predicting a 242 to 193 margin.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• That means now is the time to predict a Democratic Senate win; if you're wrong, the costs are low. If you're right, you'll be hailed as a wizard.

  [NYT / Justin Wolfers]

• Then again, it's very possible we won't know who won the Senate for weeks.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• "The modern Democratic coalition is a boom-and-bust coalition that depends heavily on minorities and young people who turn out much less regularly in midterm than presidential elections."

  [National Journal / Ron Brownstein]

• The first data we get back will be exit polls, explained here.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• As Nate Cohn notes, it's important not to place too much weight on exit polls.

  [NYT / Nate Cohn]

• A guide to pronouncing the names of today's candidates.

  [NPR]

• A congresswoman is retiring to run for her county Board of Supervisors — and that's actually a step up for her.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

• The biggest single spender in the elections is billionaire environmental Tom Steyer, and it's unclear he got much for his money.

  [New Republic / Rebecca Leber]

• Looks like medical marijuana legalization is already a lock in Guam.

  [Vox / German Lopez]

• A tribal-leader election in a Native American reservation in North Dakota (expected turnout: 3,500) could have a huge impact on the future of fracking in America.

  [Grist / Tim McDonnell]

• Estonia has online voting, but hacking's probably too big of a problem for it to be worth adopting here.

  [Vox / Brad Plumer]

• Taking a selfie with your ballot is actually illegal in many states.

  [Bloomberg View / Kirsten Salyer]

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