There was a lawsuit filed by disenfranchised voters and they agreed in the settlement resolution to agree never to do that again - not declare polls are closed when they are open, not to call states while polls are open.
So they did it again with Michigan? So they are violating the agreement...
In the age of the Internet I don’t even know who to blame.
AP called the race right after 8 PM—and then all the networks and other news sources picked up the AP feed and chimed in with their more detailed projections.
I commented on it in real time—I vaguely remembered they were not supposed to do it.
Here is the thread—you can follow the timeline:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4220286/posts
I note the time zone issue in post 23 at 2PM.
In post 49 at 8:23 PM I posted:
“The media is not supposed to release numbers until 9 PM Eastern because polls are still open in parts of the Upper Peninsula.
Who were the bad boys who released numbers early?”
Then see the early projection posts at 8:24 PM—posts 53 and 54 where I commented “they are shameless”.
;-)