One Extremely Important Thing to Look For At 8:00pm EST

[Doctor Jack]

According to Nate Cohn over at the NYT upshot the early vote in Florida will already be counted when polls close in the state at 8:00pm est. If Hillary is ahead when the first returns come in from florida then she will almost certainly win the state.


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/upshot/election-guide-two-paths-for-how-the-night-might-proceed.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-abc-region®ion=span-abc-region&WT.nav=span-abc-region&_r=1&referer=https://t.co/PAv1jqwEMs

[Dawson Leery]

1. kick

[bench scientist]

2. K & R for visibility

[Doctor Jack]

3. Apperently its 7:00pm est

Glad i looked that up or i might have been out buying beer or something for the first hour.

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. Yes, my Florida county has already stated on the SOE website that...

mail in ballots and early voting results will be released at 7:00 p.m. I can tell you with almost 100% certainty that if those results in my county go to Clinton than she will be the next President. No doubt in my mind!

[MSMITH33156]

7. Big caveat

this is only the vote in the Eastern Time Zone. There is a part of Florida in the panhandle that is Trump country that won't dump in until 8 PM. The last few elections, the early vote has mirrored the final vote, but you need to wait until 8PM, not 7.

[SimpleMan]

12. The polls don't close in Florida until 7:00 pm Central.

I live in the panhandle, and we are on Central time.

[Bucky]

17. Isn't part of Florida on central time? Should they release that info before all precincts close?

If it was up to me, they wouldn't release any returns until midnight in the Aleutian Islands

[Hortensis]

18. Besides early voting, apparently the FL state counts will

be released starting when the polls close in the CENTRAL time zone states. Just in case she (knock wood--one of them) isn't leading by enough to call it before then.

[Doctor Jack]

19. Perhaps that's true

Here is a map I found

[Hortensis]

21. Perhaps either is true. Maybe partial data at 7. or?

I'm relaying what Florida analyst Steven Schale said in an interesting blog post. http://steveschale.com/blog/2016/11/8/we-made-it-america.html

Thanks for the map.

[Doctor Jack]

20. Confirmed, it is actually 8:00pm est not 7:00pm

Part of the state is in the central time zone.