The results of the day of the elections presidential of the United States will depend on seven states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Carolina northern, Pennsylvania y Wisconsin.
The vice president Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump They have visited them more frequently. Together, these states they will likely provide the Electoral College votes needed for the winning candidate to obtain a majority of 270.
It will be a hopscotch game to keep up with the schedules key in each of the stateswhich span across four different time zones.
A look at the chronology of the day of elections in the seven, with all the schedules in Eastern Standard Time:
Arizona
The polls open at 8:00 in the morning in Arizonastate that Joe Biden won in 2020 by 0.3%. He was only the second Democratic presidential candidate to do so in nearly 70 years. The polls will close at 9:00 p.m.
Arizona does not post votes until all precincts have reported or one hour after all polls are closed, whichever comes first.
In 2020, The Associated Press first reported the results of Arizona at 10:02 p.m. Eastern Time on November 3, Day of the electionsand declared to Biden winner at 2:51 in the morning on November 4.
Georgia
The polls open at 7:00 in the morning in Georgiawhich played a key role in 2020. Biden He was the first Democrat in a presidential race to win the state since Bill Clinton in 1992, defeating Trump by less than a quarter of a percentage point, a margin of 11,779 votes.
Since then, the efforts of Trump to reverse those results have been at the center of a criminal case in Fulton County. He is on pause while his legal team pursues a pretrial appeal to have District Attorney Fani Willis removed from the case and the indictment dismissed. The Court of Appeals of Georgia You will hear those arguments after elections.
The ballot boxes in Georgia They close at 7:00 in the afternoon.
In 2020, the AP published the results of Georgia at 7:20 p.m. on November 3 and declared to Biden winner of the state at 7:58 p.m. on November 19, more than two weeks after Election Day elections.
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Michigan
The polls open at 7:00 in the morning in Michiganone of the states of the “blue wall” that leaned closely Trump in 2016 after nearly 30 years of voting for Democratic candidates. Biden he recovered it four years later. His margin was approximately 154,000 votes out of more than 5.5 million votes.
Michigan It spans two time zones, but polls in most of the state close at 8:00 p.m. with the rest at 9:00 p.m.
In 2020, the AP reported for the first time the results of Michigan at 8:08 p.m. on November 3 and declared to Biden winner at 5:58 pm on November 4.
Nevada
The polls open at 10:00 in the morning in Nevadathe smallest prize of battlefield electoral votes. But he has one of the best records as a presidential indicator. The candidate who won Nevada has gone on to win the White House in 27 of the last 30 elections presidential.
The polls close at 10:00 at night. The state does not release results until the last person in line has voted, so there has typically been a wait between the polls closing and the first results.
In 2020, the AP published the results of Nevada at 11:41 p.m. on November 3 and declared to Biden winner at 12:13 pm on November 7.
Carolina northern
The polls open at 6:30 in the morning in Carolina of the North, which has been won by Democrats only twice in elections presidential since 1968. But the state has remained competitive for both major parties. The victory of Trump and 2020 and Carolina North, by about 1 percentage point, was his smallest margin of victory in any state.
The polls close at 7:30 in the afternoon.
In 2020, the AP first published the results at 7:42 p.m. on November 3 and declared Trump winner at 3:49 pm on November 13.
Pennsylvania
The polls open at 7:00 in the morning in Pennsylvaniaanother “blue wall” state. The margin of Biden in Pennsylvania in 2020 it was approximately 8,000 votes out of more than 6.9 million votes. This year, it’s the place where Harris and Trump They met for the first time in their only debate in September in Philadelphia.
The polls close at 8:00 p.m. in a state with more electoral votes, 19, than any of the battlegrounds.
In 2020, the AP first reported the results at 8:09 p.m. on Nov. 3 and declared Biden winner at 11:25 in the morning of November 7.
Wisconsin
The polls open at 8:00 in the morning in Wisconsinthe third “blue wall” state in this group. Wisconsin is not alien to elections closed; the margin of victory in the state was less than 1 percentage point in 2020, 2016, 2004 and 2000.
The polls close at 9:00 at night.
In 2020, the AP reported for the first time the results of Wisconsin at 9:07 p.m. on November 3 and declared to Biden winner at 2:16 pm on November 4.
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