Welcome to a special Election Day edition of the From the Politics Desk newsletter, where we’re putting all the links and information you’ll need when the vote tallies start rolling in tonight in one place.
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Everything you need for election night
Election Day is finally here!
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As a reminder, Democrats would need to gain a net of three seats to win the House and four to win the Senate.
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With the first polls closing soon, here are the NBC News guides and tools to have on hand to follow along with the results.
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- Ben Kamisar and Bridget Bowman have a comprehensive guide on how to watch election night.
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They run through the poll closing times for each state, early bellwethers, and other key battlegrounds that will tell us which way the political winds are blowing.
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- Stephanie Perry explains how the NBC News Exit Poll works and how the Decision Desk uses the results.
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- Speaking of the Decision Desk, John Lapinski, Stephen Pettigrew and Marc Trussler lay out the factors that will determine when we will know which party has won the House and the Senate.
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Steve Kornacki will be live at the Big Board starting at 5:30 p.m. ET, and NBC News primetime coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. ET.
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Final poll closing times
7 p.m. ET: Georgia, Indiana (parts close earlier), Kentucky (parts close earlier), South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia
7:30 p.m. ET:
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Alabama, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida (parts close earlier), Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Tennessee
8:30 p.m. ET: Arkansas
9 p.m. ET: Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas (parts close earlier), Louisiana, Michigan (parts close earlier), Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota (parts close earlier), South Dakota (parts close earlier), Texas (parts close earlier), Wisconsin and Wyoming
10 p.m. ET:
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Montana, Nevada and Utah
11 p.m. ET: California, Idaho (parts close earlier), Oregon (parts close earlier) and Washington
12 a.m. ET:
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Alaska (parts close earlier)
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Flash flooding, heavy rainfall and tornadoes forced election officials in three regions across the U.S. to move polling locations.
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Vote watch: The Justice Department sent a record number of election monitors to polling places in all 50 states today.
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Westchester County ballot tabulators malfunctioned across the county, alarming voters and fueling a flurry of conspiracy theories online.
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The Supreme Court last night swiftly rejected the administration’s request that California separate out up to 20,000 mail-in ballots that officials allege could be submitted by noncitizens.
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That’s all From the Politics Desk for now.
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Today’s newsletter was compiled by Adam Wollner.
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