Without mentioning any party or person, does anyone know what I will need for an election year survival kit?

Jeanette Isabelle

Survival kits are useful, regardless of any specific year.

Be sure to vote in 2020.

We need additional provisions for election years.

Jeanette Isabelle

Well now... for our household the only "extra" provisions I can see us needing is to lay in some serious booze!

Ok, true, I'm being sarcastic - but in reality I do get some additional books on my e-reader and have been getting more books at the library each trip lately. I've also upped our use of DVD movies both rentals re-watching our own stash and getting older hits from our library.

All of the above is mostly avoidance - the whole political situation is just overwrought and I am unable to sort the "good" from the "bad" or the plain stupid anymore. I've got our TV downstairs on the History channel, HGTV or other do-it-yourself programing and have not watched any of the news or current events programing for sometime now.

The ever delightful Mrs. is somewhat of a news junkie so I count on her (watching TV upstairs) to keep me abreast of anything truly important - for me I am watching "Love it or List it" and getting ideas for remodeling the bathroom.

However, you do have a point in that a political situation can (and has in the past - Chicago '68) create civil unrest and preparations for something like that would be appropriate. For what it's worth - the current state of our preparations cover such a contingency so I don't see us doing anything different just because it is an election year.

Though I don't drink, I can agree with that.

Jeanette Isabelle

Knee-high rubber boots, a flat bladed shovel, and a five-tine fork. ;-)

Something to handle the bull would be good.

I posed the same question in an unrelated forum and a member made a good suggestion: earplugs.

Jeanette Isabelle

Rather than shut out the rhetoric, embrace the situation and work at a polling place on election day. Contribute to a fair, accurate election bu putting in a good, long day processing voters and handling their ballots properly.

After retirement,I worked in our local county election office, recruiting and training poll workers and getting a good, first hand view of the workings of an election office. I was, and am, impressed at the measures taken to insure a fair, accurate count of voted ballots.

Incidentally,in the twelve or so years I have worked in that office, I never overheard or participated in a "political" discussion. There was no overt policy - it just wan't done.

The day is long, often exceeding twelve hours and the pay,at least in California is marginal. I under stand in other jurisdictions pay is somewhat more appropriate. But in any case, your conscientious service will contribute to a stable democracy.

When you enter a polling place on election day, you are experiencing just the tip of the iceberg; an enormous amount of work has gone into preparations and planning to get every thing ready.

I'm 70 and still working by choice. I like to drink my morning coffee while watching a local news cast. This gets me news if my locality and a summary of major news stories.

Why? I don't believethere is any correlation between election years and problems with the food supply - at lest not in the last 250 years in the USA.

On election night, I am often biting my fingernails, though not much nutrition there.

There has been no direct correlation. Indirectly? Yes.

Jeanette Isabelle

Indirectly?? Please explain

This is why I have not addressed Hikermor's question. If he likes, we can discuss it in private.

Jeanette Isabelle

I agree with Chaosmagnet that this can easily swerve into political territory, with a resulting train wreck. But the very initiation of this thread, inquiring about special survival considerations in an election year, gets proceedings rolling in that direction

There is nothing particularly special about an election year.

So far, we have not seen it in our lifetime. Knock on wood. As we have seen in history, people get ugly when they do not like the results of an election.

Jeanette Isabelle

But that’s post-election, not election year. This thread might become relevant circa late October 2020. First we need to get through the Atlantic hurricane season which will be on us in a few months. Take those hurricane supplies and morph them into whatever you think you might need post-election. Me? I’m an optimist...

Russs, don't forget- we have to also get through the SoCal earthquake season - SOCALEQ

Yeah, but post election it will still be EQ season. Hurricane season will be over for those near the Atlantic so they have supplies that can be repurposed. There’s no off-season for SOCAL EQ’s.

i Dare say we have all seen pictures of the recent EQ destruction in Puerto Rico. Compared to that, preparing for very hypothetical civil unrest is fairly trivial.

When was the last election when everyone got the result they like? The first term for George Washington?

A good sense of humor always helps. And high boots.