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	Fallout 3 unmarked quest Election Day
	The presidential candidates
	location Republic of Dave given by Dave reward Ol' Painless or 25 caps

 

Election Day is an unmarked quest in Fallout 3.

OverviewEdit

Dave is running for President of The Republic of Dave once more and needs your help.

Quick walkthroughEdit

Detailed walkthroughEdit

Dave asks you to talk to the other four adults of his land (Jessica, Shawna, Rosie, and Bob) to get them to vote. Once you have talked to them, go back to Dave and receive your reward.

• You have a choice while telling the adults to vote. It is possible to persuade Rosie and Bob to run against Dave in the election. Doing so would net them each one vote (if they haven't voted yet). Under normal circumstances they would only receive one vote, presumably their own. The only way to get Rosie or Bob to win is to steal the other ballots for Dave out of the box before he counts them all.

After you have told Dave all the votes are in, he will go to the ballot box.

• If the votes left in the box have Dave in the majority or in a tie with anybody else, he will declare himself the winner of the election and the quest will end.
• Be careful to leave at least one vote in the box, since taking all the votes may trigger an odd glitch where Dave gives the same speech as he would if he'd lost, where he says he's leaving, but all other in-game effects are as though Dave won (Dave returns to his office, and you have a speech option to console the 'losing' candidate).
• If you are quick enough open the ballot box right after Dave unlocks it, steal all the votes, but leave one vote for the candidate of your choosing. Dave will count the votes and declare whomever you left a vote for as the winner. If you speak to the victor he or she will give you the code to Dave's safe. Dave will get angry and storm out of the Republic. If you talk to Dave as he leaves he will tell you that he is going to Old Olney to liberate it from the wasteland and create a new Republic. Due to the deathclaw infestation in Old Olney, you can usually find Dave dead on the streets somewhere. You can opt to follow him to Old Olney and kill any robots, bloatflies and deathclaws you encounter. He will finally park himself in an alleyway and say "This is the New Republic of Dave. Go away." After being talked to three times, he will attack you. However, if Dave attacks you and you subsequently kill him, the residents of The Republic of Dave become hostile and attack you when you return.

RewardsEdit

• 25 caps, upon telling Dave to count the votes.
• The loot from Dave's safe, including the unique rifle Ol' Painless. To obtain Dave's safe key, you can kill, pickpocket, or pass a speech test from Dave claiming that you are a Wasteland Ambassador. Otherwise, if Dave loses the election the winner will grant you the access code to the safe.
  • A bug causes looting the safe to always be considered thievery and grants negative Karma. Wait for nightfall or Dave to count the ballot to loot the safe without witnesses.

NotesEdit

• You may use this quest as a method to more sneakily complete the You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head quest and avoid the residents being turned hostile (assuming you don't have any interest in talking Dave into giving up his key). To use this method, make Dave lose the election and when he leaves for Old Olney you need to follow him a fair distance away from The Republic of Dave, so the residents don't witness the murder, almost all the way to Old Olney, meanwhile protecting him from being killed by deathclaws, giant radscorpions and the like. You can then kill him, without killing or being shot at by the Republic of Dave residents.
• If someone other than Dave wins the election, the farm will still be called 'The Republic of Dave'.
• The code to Dave's safe, 1138, is a nod to a Star Wars Easter Egg. In almost all the movies George Lucas' first movie, THX 1138, is referenced.

BugsEdit

• pc ps3 The voting might go on without the quest being activated. The few things you can do when this happens is to load a save file, pickpocket Dave, or kill him. ^[verified]
• ps3 xbox360 Under unknown circumstances, Dave will treat the filing cabinets to his right as the ballot box. ^[verified]
• One of the non-player character can go to the ballot box, and stand there doing nothing, making it impossible to finish the quest. If you reload from a VERY old save, it might solve the problem. If this happens reload save from before discovering the Republic of Dave and as you tell each person to vote follow them and make sure they go through with it. Then ask them to vote again and they will confirm that they already have. ^{[platforms tag needed]}
  • pc You can also select the stopped non-player character in the console and type disable followed by enable. ^[verified]
• ps3 If Bob is killed (by Radscorpions etc following you into the compound) this will break the quest as Dave is still waiting for his vote, and you cannot tell him Bob is dead. ^[verified]
• pc Sometimes, when in the ballot box you leave one vote for Dave, Rosie and Bob, Dave will give a speech saying that Rosie or Bob have won and he will say that he is leaving. However, he does not leave and talking with Rosie and Bob will result in a speech option of "Better luck next year˝. ^[verified]
• pc If Dave is killed in a non hostile way then resurrected, he will answer that "Dave is dead, how can there be an election", just as the others will. ^[verified]