Poll Closing Times/Scorecard Presidential Election 2004

11/02/2004 | self

[A_Niceguy_in_CA]

Closing time    State                  Electoral Vote     Bush     Kerry
(EST)

6:00 p.m.  	Indiana	 (*/EST)  	 0-see later tmzn
                Kentucky (*/EST)  	 0-see later tmzne
7:00 p.m.  	Indiana	 (*/CST)  	11
                Kentucky (*/CST)  	 8
                Georgia	 (EST)  	15
                New Hampshire(EST)#  	 4
                South Carolina	(EST)  	 8
                Vermont	(EST)  	         3
                Virginia	(EST)  	13
                Florida	 (*/EST)         0-see later tmzn
7:30 p.m.  	North Carolina	(EST)#  15  
                Ohio	(EST)  	        20  
                West Virginia	(EST)  	 5
8:00 p.m.  	Florida	(*/CST)  	27
                Alabama	(CST)  	         9
                Connecticut	(EST)    7
                Delaware	(EST)  	 3
                D.C.	(EST)  	         3
                Illinois	(CST)  	21  	
                Kansas	(CST/MST)#  	 6 
                Maine	(EST)   	 4 
                Maryland	(EST)  	10
                Massachusetts	(EST)  	12
                Mississippi	(CST)  	 6
                Missouri	(CST)  	11
                New Jersey	(EST)  	15
                Oklahoma	(CST)  	 7  
                Pennsylvania	(EST)  	21
                Tennessee   (EST/CST)   11  
                Michigan      (*/EST)  	 0-see later tmzn
		Texas	(*/CST)  	 0-see later tmzn
8:30 p.m.  	Arkansas	(CST)    6
9:00 p.m.  	Michigan	(*/CST) 17
                Texas	(*/MST)  	34  	
                Arizona	(MST)  	        10
                Colorado	(MST)  	 9
                Louisiana	(CST)    9
                Minnesota	(CST)  	10
                Nebraska    (CST/MST)  	 5
                New Mexico	(MST)  	 5
                New York	(EST)  	31
                Rhode Island	(EST)  	 4
                South Dakota (CST/MST) 	 3 
                Wisconsin	(CST)  	10
                Wyoming	(MST)  	         3 
10:00 p.m.  	Iowa	(CST)  	         7
                Montana	(MST)  	         3
                Nevada	(PST)  	         5
                Utah	(MST)  	         5
                Idaho	(*/MST)  	 0-see later tmzn
                North Dakota	(*/CST)  0-see later tmzn
                Oregon	(*/MST)  	 0-see later tmzn
11:00 p.m.  	California	(PST)  	55
                Hawaii	(HI)  	         4  
                Idaho	(*/PST)  	 4
                North Dakota (*/MST)  	 3
                Oregon	(*/PST)  	 7 
                Washington	(PST)  	11
12:00 a.m.  	Alaska	(*/AKST)  	 0-see later tmzn
01:00 a.m.  	Alaska	(*/ALST)  	 3

(*/TMZ) - the state resides in two time zones and the polls close at the same local time (i.e. the polls in the time zone further west close one hour later).

(TMZ1/TMZ2) - the state resides in two time zones and the polls close synchronously

# - a portion of the state may have poll closings at a later time.

07:00pm - New Hampshire - permits its 13 cities to keep their polls open until 8 PM EST by local option.

07:30pm - North Carolina - allows its County Boards of Elections to decide whether to keep polls open until 8:30 p.m. EST

08:00pm - Kansas - Most polls in the State close at either 7 pm or 8 pm local time in the Central Time Zone by local option; the remaining polls in the Mountain Time Zone close at either 6 pm or 7 pm local time by local option.

[A_Niceguy_in_CA]

Hopefully someone can reformat and make a really nice scorcard, perhaps including comparions to the final 2000 election tally in electoral votes and percentages of the candidates. Maybe, a space, for actual popular vote totals to compare turnout to 2000 for each candidate?

[Howlin]

Bless you! I was JUST looking for one of these.

Last year, Real Clear Politics had one, but I cannot find it on their site!!!

[Citizen Soldier]

Thanks. I saw Blitzer on CNN with their boards and it looked too intense to read. I am about to have a coronary over all this.

[b9]

Wow. Indiana closes early!

[Howlin]

Here's a neat one:

http://www.spacerad.com/electoral/election_scorecard.pdf

[nopardons]

Thanks.......

[A_Niceguy_in_CA]

Hopefully someone can reformat the information and make a nice scorecard as perhaps a pdf?

Like everyone else here, I look forward to comparing the early returns to 2000.

Meanwhile, I'm going to try to get some sleep for the big day/night ahead.

[b9]

Good night, NiceGuy...
thanks for this thread...

Hubby and I will be voting early, too!

[Straight Vermonter]

I made a very simple excel scorecard available here. It doesn't, however, have the closing times etc.

[hoosier_RW_conspirator]

Yes, we do, but we open early, too (6 AM)

[MeekOneGOP]

Bless you! I was JUST looking for one of these.

Oh, yeah. Perfect. It lists 'em all in Eastern Time.

Thanks for the post, A_Niceguy_in_CA.
And for the ping, Howlin.

Go, Dubya, go !!

[MeekOneGOP]

Oh, also, just fyi. On our local WBAP radio 820AM (which carries Rush and Hannity), they had someone from ABC on last night. The host of the show I was listening to asked the ABC guy (don't recall his name) about calling states for Bush or Kerry. The ABC guy said that A BS, N BS and See BS were ALL going to WAIT until ALL polls within a state are CLOSED before making a "projection" for any candidate. He made a distinction between "calling a state for" a candidate and making a "projection" - which sounded like rhetorical BS to me, but whatever. [I would assume that other news outlets like FOX, etc. would do the same as well].

Anyway, I am ALL for that, though I would prefer them not making projections AT ALL until all the California polls are closed .....

[woodb01]

bump for later. See the Anti-DNC web portal at: http://www.nodnc.com

[Carolinamom]

Thanks.

[StarFan]

That's a great link. Thanks.

Did you happen to catch GWB's last rally in Dallas last night? C-span covered it live and you'd think after a 19 hour sprint he'd be off his mark. On the contrary he was upbeat, resolute and I've never seen him so at home with an audience. He appeared so humble and so moved that they were there well past midnight to greet him and showed his appreciation by shaking most hands in attendance.

[MeekOneGOP]

Memo to the Media: PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL THE POLLS IN FLORIDA WILL BE CLOSED AT 8 P.M. EASTERN TIME !!!!:

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7:00 p.m. Indiana (*/CST) 11
Kentucky (*/CST) 8
Georgia (EST) 15
New Hampshire(EST)# 4
South Carolina (EST) 8
Vermont (EST) 3
Virginia (EST) 13
Florida (*/EST) 0-see later tmzn
7:30 p.m. North Carolina (EST)# 15
Ohio (EST) 20
West Virginia (EST) 5
8:00 p.m. Florida (*/CST) 27

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[b9]

Yes, we do, but we open early, too (6 AM)

Ahhh, great idea...
wish ours opened (and closed) earlier, too.

Felt sooo good to vote just now!!!

[Ichneumon]

Bump.

[Ichneumon]

[MeekOneGOP]

FOX News projects Dubya winner in Georgia.

Thank ya'll !! Thank ya'll very much !!