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🗳️ How long could election results take?
November 5, 2024 · Kelsey Bradshaw
🗳️ Happy Election Day! Need a ride to the polls? CapMetro is offering free bus rides and bike rentals today, Lyft is offering discounted rides, and scooter and bike rentals, and Uber is offering discounted rides and food delivery coupons.
What's CITY Talking About?
🤔 Experts: Local Suit May Lead To Doubt in Election Results
Nonpartisan political experts say a now-dismissed lawsuit claiming the Travis County elections administrator created a deficiency in Republican poll workers is part of a nationwide effort by the Republican Party to sow doubt in election results. [Austin American-Statesman]
🎙️ City Cast Austin’s Totally Real and Not at All Just-for-Fun Election Includes Willie Nelson for Mayor, Canje Chefs, and More!
Join the whole team on the City Cast Austin podcast today in casting our votes for which celebrity we want to be Austin’s mayor, and which local chefs should take over school lunches, among other categories! City Cast Austin]
🖼️ Downtown Mural Could Be Demolished
Austin’s Historic Landmark Commission will consider a demolition permit this week for a downtown building that includes a mural of Texans Willie Nelson and Janis Joplin. [Austin Business Journal]
🥵 October Was Warmer Than Normal
I know we know this from all the sweating, but the stats are still impressive: October was 6.4 degrees warmer than normal, with a mean temperature of 78.2 degrees, breaking 1931’s record by 1.2 degrees. [KUT]
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What To Do
Tuesday, Nov. 5
- 💦 Election Day Moving Through It Workout with Erica Nix at Moody Amphitheater | 10 a.m. | Free | Downtown Austin
- ⭐ Election Night Watch Party at Star Bar | 4 p.m. | Free | Downtown Austin
- 🌷 Tuesday Twilights at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center | 5 p.m. | $15 | Circle C Ranch
- 🗳️ Hotel Vegas & Volstead’s Election Night Watch Party | 5 p.m. | Free | East Sixth
- ☑️ Democrasexy’s Election Spectacle Hope Watch/Doom Watch and Carnival of Care at Cheer Up Charlie’s | 6 p.m. | Free | Downtown Austin
- 🇺🇸 Election Night Watch Party at Black Star Co-op | 6 p.m. | Free | Crestview
Wednesday, Nov. 6
- 🦋 High Noon Talk: The Monarch Butterfly Migration at Bullock Texas State History Museum | Noon | Free | Downtown Austin
- 🛁 Sound Bath in the Treehouse with ATX Yoga Girl at Pease Park | 6 p.m. | Free | Old Enfield
- 🐶 PAWS & PLAY: Lager Dogs Arcade at Oddwood Brewing | 6 p.m. | Free | East Austin
- 🎤 Gumbo Ya Ya at Meanwhile Brewing | 7:30 p.m. | Free | Southeast Austin
- 🎸 Tab Benoit at The 04 Center | 8 p.m. | $45 | Downtown Austin
- 😂 Ladies Night at the Velveeta Room | 9 p.m. | $10.58 and up | Downtown Austin
👋 I’ll meet y’all here tomorrow morning with election results! In the meantime, I’ll be scarfing down some election night pizza, a time-honored journalism tradition. 😇
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