Resources for Poll Closing Times 🕣 🗳
If you miss Net 1.0 you'll be happy to see that it lives on at this no nonsense site.
The Green Papers: 2024 Poll Closing Times for Statewide offices and Congress General Election Chronologically
First of all, it seems to have nothing to do with the useless Green Party despite the Green in the name.
The updated site, going strong for about 25 years, gives us the closing times converted into each US time zone – plus UTC/GMT. It even pays attention to states which are located in more than one time zone – hence more than one listing for some states. Those of us who have chafed under Eastern Zone hegemony need not do any converting here. 🙂
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This from Slate is a bit more typical as it includes analysis and commentary – not just times (which are all given only in Eastern).
An Hour-by-Hour Guide to What We’ll Probably Learn on Election Night
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The National Conference of State Legislatures has a listing of when each state begins processing and counting its absentee and mail-in ballots. They provide an explanation of the differences between processing and counting. Some states are prompt in counting these, others – not so much.
Table 16: When Absentee/Mail Ballot Processing and Counting Can Begin
A useful table but I often get 524 error codes there. Possibly a result of heavy volume which they're not used to getting. Fortunately, there's a recent archiving of this page at Internet Archive.
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Polls in Georgia close at 0000 UTC/GMT (6 PM CST). They close in North Carolina 30 minutes later. Both states should have discernible results relatively quickly. Biden narrowly won Georgia and Trump narrowly won North Carolina in 2020. So results for 2024 could be compared against those as they come in.
