Damon Runyon wrote a short story called "Blood Pressure" in which there's a crap game; a hoodlum rolls dice in his hat and tells the onlookers what numbers came up. I think it was used in the Broadway Musical "Guys and Dolls".

This 'election' reminds me of that, only it's not as 'ha-ha' funny.

And the centrifugal separators keep on a-turnin'