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Old 11-02-2020, 02:38 PM   #8835
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What time of day do the first results start rolling in? Will some states announce all the pre-election day ballot results in the morning, if they have already counted them?
No, the first ballots will not be announced until after the polls start closing. And exit-polling will be incredibly inaccurate to the point of being useless.

Fivethirtyeight has a great page with how it breaks down state-by-state, in terms of when polls close and how soon to expect results.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...esults-timing/

Plus an hour-by-hour breakdown:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...ight-they-get/

Some states will have early votes pre-counted and announce those within an hour of polls closing or less, with election-day results coming in later. Others don't start counting until election day.
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