THE GOTV, THE BATTLE, AND THE INFO

You call this a "Big 3"?
It's Election Day, fool! It's ALL big!

1. GOTV
The voter turnout today looks like it’s going to be mammoth. That means you can expect long lines, but a lot of company! You’re going to set some records today. So read up. We’d tell you more about this, but we’re all busy making get out and vote calls ourselves! We’re playing music (Rockin'!) and celebrating our favorite day of the year. Election Day.

2. THE BATTLE
The poll-challenger saga appears to have ended. Again. A federal court has ruled that Republicans are permitted to send challengers to the polls in Ohio to contest voters who they feel may not be legally entitled to vote. This is a reversal from yesterday’s ruling from a lower court which was to have prevented such challenges from taking place. Now, it’s become cliché to call Ohio the new Florida – but if there are post-election lawsuits, Ohio is likely to become ground zero in any legal electoral showdown.

[As of this writing, there have been no major incidents, and the only result of the challengers has been delays. We’ll see how events play out…

IF YOU HEAR OF ANY INSTANCES OF YOUTH OR COLLEGE VOTER SUPPRESSION, INTIMIDATION, OR GENERALLY SHADY BUSINESS, PLEASE EMAIL our political director at "HANS AT ROCKTHEVOTE DOT COM"]

Voter suppression and fraud stories tend to break along two separate and equally ugly party narratives. Namely: the Democrats are attempting to push fraudulent or ineligible voters through the system, and the Republicans are attempting to prevent eligible ones from entering the system. Meanwhile, take a look at some fun stories of voter intimidation: license-plate writing in South Dakota, phony phone calls in Michigan, and fake letters in South Carolina.

3. THE INFO
Because if you want the info, you want ALL the info.

News today has been flowing like the Mississipp'. High volume, very
slowwwwly. We've been checking cnn.com's electoral college map
every five minutes for the past three hours just to see Bush, Kerry, and Nader
tied (probably the only time you're gonna see that today) at zilch.

But if it's more than just an electoral college map you're craving,
there's a whole bunch of other sites (besides yours' truly) to keep up
with today. Here's just a few.

Check out MyPollingPlace.com or MyPollingSite.com (if you can get on
either site, which are balky today, probably due to traffic overload)
to find out where your polling place is.

Here's a site where undecided voters can find out whom other like-minded people will be voting for today.

There's bound to be about a slew of faq's about this election today,
right? The questions are probably more important than they are
'frequently asked,' but check out this government website that's sure
to teach you a thing or two you didn't know about today.

There's too many sites to write about all of them. We just took a
handful from here. Stay updated on this close race all day long.

-Aaron Coles & Alex Sherman