The Angle

The Angle: It’s All Happening Edition

Slate’s daily newsletter on Election Day night.

Scene on the sidewalk near where the election night party for Donald Trump will be held at the New York Hilton Midtown, Tuesday in New York City.

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For the latest: Follow our Election Day live blog or the VoteCastr educated-guess turnout tracker.

Our votes: Slate’s editorial staff explains who we support,and why. The outcome: HRC 59, Evan McMullin 1, Jill Stein 1.

From behind the desk: Henry Grabar, former poll worker, on what it feels like to be one of the friendly cogs that makes the machinery of democracy work.

Group beliefs: Three researchers who tested subjects to determine whether they held dehumanizing views of black people found that Trump supporters were disproportionately likely to see blacks as “less evolved.”

Election questions? We have Explainers: How do you break a(n actual) glass ceiling? Can you be ruled mentally unfit to vote? How did they count ballots before voting machines? How do you vote in prison and jail?

R.I.P.: Here’s a heartfelt obituary for Janet Reno, who died on Monday, written by one of her former staffers. “I watched the D.C. and entertainment establishments grow baffled over a person too straightforward to figure out,” writes Bert Brandenburg.

For fun: Trump’s really sad cake.

For more fun: Did your precinct run out of “I Voted” stickers? Aw! We’ve got some for you.

I voted bigly,

Rebecca