[lancium]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/five-counties-to-watch-in-the-florida-primary/2012/01/31/gIQAyuMIfQ_blog.html

Most precincts — 94 percent, actually — close at 7 p.m. eastern time while a handful of polling places in the state’s Panhandle region close at 8 p.m.

[srmorton]

That may be true, but the premature call of FL for Al Gore is said to have cost GWB thousands of votes as people who were standing in line to vote for him left the polling places when they heard that Gore had “won”. The whole FL fiasco might never have happened.