I am truly confused.
San Fran channel I get here in Reno area market is talking about ‘having results’ at 4 PM Pacific Time.
I thought it was now a law that networks could NOT release results before all the West Coast polls were closed. There will be still 3 hours of voting open in the pacific time zone, including where I live here in the Reno area. I don’t want anyone to be inhibited from going out and voting.
A few elections past, results were released for the main part of Florida and the Florida panhandle is in the Central time zone. Many voters admitted they never went to the polls and voted that evening because the race had already been called.
I think releasing such results early is not fair to the voters OR the candidates.
The issue with Florida was that the state was called before the state closed its polling places. The rationale that allows reporting of one state after its polls have closed, but before polls in other states are closed, is that each state stands independent of the others.