Why don't states with multiple time zones establish uniform voting periods?

[LiberadorHugo]

Or at least pass laws banning a vote count until all the poll close?

[msongs]

1. prohibit broadcast of results unless based on ACTUAL vote counts nt

[GodlessBiker]

5. That sounds like a "prior restraint." Not good for the First Amendment.

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. I don't think there are that many...

...actually. The part of FL that is in CST is quite small, compared to the whole state. The Dakotas are basically empty. So far as I know, TN, KY and IN, the other split states, have a uniform poll closure already.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Indiana does not!

IC 3-11-8-8
Poll time on election day
Sec. 8. The polls in each precinct open at 6 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. on election day.
As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.7.

The following observe Central Time Zone:
Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton, Jasper and Starke in the northwest.
Posey, Gibson, Vanderburgh, Warrick, Spencer and Perry in the southwest.

Kentucky is also (6-6) local time.

[Ilsa]

4. Hawaiians would end up getting up at 3am to vote

before the lines goe too long if they are on CST.

[GodlessBiker]

6. How many time zones is Hawaii in?

[LiberadorHugo]

7. Why would a state not want uniform poll closure...

It just sounds wacky to me. 6 to 7 for the Panhandle and 7 to 8 for the rest of the state so that this shit doesn't happen anymore. And likewise, why can't every other state be blackmailed to do the same? If money could blackmail the states into raising the drinking age to 21, why can't it be used to blackmail the state on the issue of logical and harmonized regulation of election?