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Every place News 3 checked, it was steady.

Voters will have a slew of candidates to choose from this year, an election season marked by President Donald Trump and a wave of activism. The GOP tends to have stronger turnout in the midterms, though races in Texas and elsewhere have shown an uptick in Democratic turnout.

Excuse Debra Jeffries if she has a case of deja vu. She's a Culinary Union vet who has worked at Bally's for 38 years as a cocktail server.

We'll begin at Galleria Mall, where this is a very important day. It's 19-year-old Reagan Rice's first time voting.

You may know that May 15 was the birthday of Las Vegas. We celebrate the day of the auction that led to the creation of the railroad’s townsite. You may not know this May 15 was the centennial of the birth of Eddy Arnold. Yes, the country singer. And we’re not just talking about him today because the author of Nevada Yesterdays is a country music fan. There’s more to the story.

As Nevada goes, so may go the nation, says 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ associate history professor Michael Green.

When it comes to the founding of Nevada’s biggest cities, it truly is the merry month of May. Las Vegas celebrates its birthday on May 15—the day in 1905 that the railroad auctioned off the townsite that became downtown. And on May 9, 1868, Reno was born in similar fashion.

Inside the Thomas & Mack Center at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ, the Culinary Union is getting ready. On Tuesday, in two shifts, tens of thousands of culinary workers from 34 resorts will come here to vote on whether or not to let their leaders call a strike.