World: When will we know who will be the president of the United States? Election calendar from hour to hour, day to day

Typically, on a Tuesday in November, Americans will go to the polls to elect a president, and on Wednesday, early-rising Europeans will be able to watch the future president’s victory speech over their morning coffee. It’s true that in many places, ballots are just starting to add up, vote counting still takes days in California, and polling stations are open in Alaska and Hawaii when a winner is announced, but that doesn’t matter as it doesn’t change the outcome. final.

This is what is almost certainly not the case in 2020.

Due to the epidemic, more Americans than ever are voting by mail, but the rules vary from state to state, how long these votes must be given to be accepted, how long they can arrive, and when the letters can be broken. Not to mention, there are ongoing judgments about the exact course of this, including during voting and even vote counting.

This may also be important because, according to opinion polls, Joe Biden’s supporters are likely to be in the majority of those who vote on the letter. Since these are counted after personally casting votes in various places, it could easily happen that Donald Trump leads in the hours after the election, but Biden will change, even days later.

We’ve compiled what Election Night and the next few weeks would look like in states where elections can be decided, largely using a summary from The Washington Post and FiveThirtyEight. For now, we can only say for sure:

A final result is expected by the morning of November 4 if one of the candidates wins by a very wide margin.

Tuesday night, November 3, Wednesday, November 4, European time:

In Central Europe it will be 1 at night, when voting ends in Georgia. At that time, only votes cast on the ground will be reported there. Votes by letter will be announced on Election Day if the victory of one of the candidates is clear.

1:30 he will be with us when the voting is over in North Carolina. It is at this time that the votes of the letter begin to be added, the authorities promise that in a few hours after that the process will be 95 percent, but even without the votes cast in the letter of that day, the last of them will have to wait another ten days.

In Ohio, voting will also end and a preliminary result will be published, but only after more than a week and a half will the final result be released, when all ballots have been processed.

Until 2 am They can vote in Pennsylvania, and we will know the partial results, but there will not even touch the votes received in the letter until the close of the polls. This may be especially important because, based on current polls, there is a 30 to 40 percent chance that the president will win in Pennsylvania. And to make it really complicated: there is a lot of litigation over whether letter votes received after the ballot box closes can be accepted. Republicans want not to, Democrats want to. And the Supreme Court has made a decision that does not reassure anyone: the letters that arrive after the polls close will have to be separated from the other letters, so if they are later invalidated, they will know what does not count in the final result.

They can also vote up to 2 in Hungarian time in Florida, but the situation there will be simpler, the votes cast before Election Day will be counted by then, so we will still have a good chance of getting the final result that day. At that time, there will also be a ballot box closing in Maine, and votes by letter will also be accepted so far.

3 crowns there will be a polls closing in Minnesota, and since the ballots are added there in advance, there may be partial results soon after, but we will have to wait more than a week for the last one. Michigan was warned that on Election Day, only votes cast in person and ballots from cities with more than 25,000 people will be pre-aggregated, with all other votes expected until Friday.

In New Mexico, it’s up to him to add votes by letters. You can still vote in Texas and we will see partial results, but they will give you another full day to review each letter you receive. And in Wisconsin, where they can also vote until now, they promise to deliver a result at dawn there, when it will be in Europe in the morning.

At 4 in the morning Voting ends in Arizona, where the position will be posted after the ballot box closes, based on ballots received before Election Day. Letters received that day are added after the locally cast votes have been counted, and if work is tight, this can also take place through Thursday or Friday. They are still voting in Nevada and Iowa, but they are still waiting for letters.

Thursday, November 5:

In Georgia and Wisconsin, the result is promised no later than this time when the competition gets very close.

Friday, November 6:

In Michigan, at this time, a full bottom line is promised counting the referenda from settlements of fewer than 25,000 people.

In Pennsylvania, ballots by letter will be accepted until now if mailed by November 3. Local authorities hope to be able to communicate the final result soon after.

Monday, November 9:

So far, letter ballots have been accepted in Iowa.

Tuesday, November 10:

Until now, you can receive correspondence from the states of Minnesota and Nevada.

Thursday, November 12:

Votes that have been mailed in by Election Day will be accepted in North Carolina until now.

Friday, November 13:

In Ohio, letters received so far will be accepted if they are mailed before November 2.

Monday, November 23:

Finally, the end result can come from the state of Washington, where correspondence is received so far, or from California, where it is counted to 20, but much longer – of course, this will only be reflected in official papers;

December 8-14:

December 8 is the deadline for states to nominate their constituencies, and then on December 14, electorates will meet in each state to formally decide who they will vote for. This is normally a formality, now it is important because any legal dispute has to be closed until now. Voter votes will be counted on January 6, 2021.