Time Stops Running, but Animations Keep Going, Have to force exit the game

melissamityok​  Does this happen if you play a different household in a different world?  Do you own the Eco Lifestyle pack, and does it help to disable NPC voting?  It may be too late for this round, although a different world would have different voting "results" and thus might not freeze, if applying the results of the voting is in fact the source of the problem.  I know it happens around this sim-time of day, at least.

As for a new save, it's worth testing just to see what happens.  At the very least, you'll have more data.

I haven't seen any other reports of this specific freezing lately.  Freezing in general, sure, but nothing this specific, at least from the players' reports, and a lot of the freezing reports I do see look very much like system issues rather than game or save issues.