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The US presidential election officially debuted. With the exception of the two New Hampshire cities on the east coast that took the lead in voting at midnight of the third local time, polling stations in the remaining states were opened in the early morning of the 3rd from east coast to coast. west for the public to vote in person. The first state to start voting is Vermont. In some areas, voters begin voting at 5 a.m. (6 p.m. Taiwan time) and voting ends at 7 p.m. that night. Since 1992, Vermont has been won by the Democratic presidential candidate.
However, with the exception of Vermont, the opening hours of polling stations in all states fall primarily from 6 am to 8 am local time. If converted to Taiwan time, the last state to open live voting is Hawaii, and Hawaii opens voting at 7 a.m. local time, which is 1:00 a.m. M. On the 4th, Taiwan time.
The opening hours of polling stations in different states were also different that day. Voting ended from 7 pm to 8 pm and public voting was open for approximately 12 hours. Since the days of Taiwan, the first states to end the vote were Indiana and Kentucky. The station closes at 6 pm Eastern Standard Time, which is equivalent to 7 am Taiwan time on the 4th. The latest voting deadlines are in Hawaii and Alaska. Polling stations will be closed at 7 pm and 8 pm local time, approximately Taiwan time. 1 pm on the 4th.
Once the polling station is closed, each polling station will start counting the votes, most of the time the votes are counted by machines, and finally the information from the ballot is sent to the central election headquarters of the local city council.
However, if the results of the US elections will be announced that day, because this year there are many more voters using “communication voting” than in previous years. The number of early voters, including communication voting, has so far exceeded 94 million. Traditionally, communication voting takes longer. To verify votes, in addition to key states such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, they do not allow election agencies to conduct voting procedures in advance, making it difficult to guarantee that on Election Day you can know who wins the election.
However, Twitter and Facebook announced yesterday (2) that if a candidate or campaign team announces their victory before the official results are released, their tweets or posts will be added. Caution label.
The following is a table based on the closing times of the polling stations in each state published by USA Today. The time has been converted to Taiwan time, so you can roughly predict when the next states will start billing. Among them, several key states with a large number of electoral votes, such as Florida with 29 electoral votes, Texas with 38 electoral votes, important decisive states of North Carolina, Arizona, etc., were in the morning of the 4th. Elections will be closed at 8:30, 9:30 and 10:00, and your voting results will attract attention.
(Zhongshi News Network)
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