Nov. 7, 2006 Poll Closing Times & Key Races

31 thoughts on “Nov. 7, 2006 Poll Closing Times & Key Races”

1. Can see you guys have been busy. I’ve started checking for direct links for obtaining results (Boards-News services) and will concentrate on a few key states such as Virginia, New York or New Jersey and of course at the end of the road California. I’ll post at some point as I’m wading through:
   13 Statewide Propositions, 11 City Propositions, 10 or so Judicial races, a pprox. 20 Statewide/Local races. Lots to decide & lots to track.

2. John Courage will be sad, being a netroots candidate and all in one of the potential weird races that can go to runoff. In Texas at least, it’s more interesting than TX-23 in terms of runoff potential.

3. Just a note on NH-02 poll times. As you note above, only a couple metro areas in NH stay open to 8pm — most others close at 7pm. Even Keene, technically a city, closes at 7.

   This means we may have some of the earliest indications up here, and maybe one of the earliest overall results.

   Citing the early closing times, we’ve been referred to by some as the canary in the coal mine for the national elections.

   I don’t particularly LIKE that analogy, but we will win, so I guess it’s fine.

4. Shows a Democratic wave is coming… House and Senate analysis with House races organized by poll closing time.  Check it out!

   http://politicalchea…

5. This info is great. GO BLUE!

6. Thanks much – just this very morning I was wishing I had such a list.

7. If you want to see a true bellwether — Congressional races where the Democrats are running shoestring, grass-roots, volunteer-driven, under-the-DCCC/DNC-radar campaigns against entrenched Republican incumbents — look at Michigan.

   Specifically the 11th, 9th and 8th Districts. When the first results come in showing Tony Trupiano, Nancy Skinner and Jim Marcinkowski running ahead of or in a dead heat with their opponents, that will speak volumes about races in the rest of the country.

8. Several districts in KY and IN that you put at 6:00 are actually divided between time zones, so all polls do not close until 7:00.  This includes KY-02, IN-02, and IN-08. 

   The complete 6:00 closings are KY-03, KY-04, IN-03, IN-07 and  IN-09.  This is where the excitement should begin. 

9. How about a thread to allow reports about turnout and campaign events occurring locally that we can share with one another?  I wanted to post the fact that Wisconsin is reporting very heavy early absentee balloting suggesting a turnout over 50% which for a mid-term is impressive.  Word is out that the youth vote is seeing an upswing and that will aid the Democrats and maybe, just maybe, allow us to defeat the da*n Marriage Amendment here in Wisconsin.  But minus implication spin the turnout appears heavy here in Wisconsin and I am an election day poll worker.

10. Please add AK-AL to your list.  This one is worth watching.  Two recent polls had the race between Diane Benson and Don Young within 10 points.  This race is as close or closer than some of the others listed including NV-SEN.  Thank you.

11. So, I went early this morning to cast my ballot in the heavily Democratic Old Northside of Indianapolis, and I see a bunch of people sort-of just standing around looking confused.  The new touch-screen voting machines were not working properly.  The did give us the old paper/scantron-style ballots to vote with, so no one should have been turned away — but this is like that who knows  how many elections in a row something like this has gone wrong here. 

    This shows why it is REALLY importnant to vote for good Democrats up and down the ballot.  Here we have a beyond incompetent Republican County Clerk named Doris Ann Sadler, who has screwed up and had to make excuses for almost every election run under her.  This time, she said “the poll workers forgot how to turn on the new machines.”  Geez, ya think that’s something you might want to have double-checked on before this morning!?!?

12. Maybe we’re not a swing state, but we still vote.  Our polls close at 8:00PM.

13. Better put a huge caveat at the top of the map that times are Eastern.  Your comment is buried below the table.  Not good enough.  Though the intent is for tracking results, folks may take it as a guide to how late they can vote, local time.  Could be seen as another Rovian obfuscation.

14. Illinois polls close at 7pm local time. You should update the map to use the time as local to the area, otherwise it’s misleading.

15. Please move the “ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN” warning to the top of the post. It should be more visible, in case people happen across this page looking for the local closing time of their polling places.

16. This is great – for what it’s worth, I expanded the table so there were columns in the four time zones for the lower 48 states.  (I had to remove the important races column cause it wouldn’t fit).  Feel free to copy it back here if it helps.

17. According to our state’s website, http://www.azsos.gov…

    The polls in Az close at 7pm, not 9pm.

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