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The first polls (other than Dixville Notch, which we should have results from in about an hour) close at 23:00 UTC. That is a little under 19 hours from now.

Those are partial states though. The first moment entire states will be closed is 00:00 UTC. At that point Georgia (15 ev), Virginia (13 ev), Indiana (11 ev), Kentucky (8 ev), South Carolina (8 ev) and Vermont (3 ev) will be closed and the networks will start calling the ones that are not close, and will start showing preliminary results for the ones that are.

At that hour, watch Georgia, Virginia and Indiana carefully. Between looking at how the three of them are going, we’ll probably have a good sense for how the rest of the night will go.

It is now election day (UTC at least) so as of a few minutes ago I opened my 2008 Electoral College Results page. There are no updates there yet. There will be no actual called states for almost another day of course, but if any additional last minute polls move any state from one category to another, I’ll get the updates up as soon as I find out.

Fivethirtyeight.com maps them out. As of today, they put the odds of one of these happening at 6.3%. Or about 1 in 16.

Someone apparently found this post I made when filling out my primary ballot earlier this year. This person emailed me yesterday to know that they are writing me in for Washington Supreme Court Position #7. I’ll probably end up voting for myself again in the general election as well, since the person on the ballot still has no competition. So I’ll have a whole TWO VOTES! My nefarious plan to take over the whole world takes another step forward! :-)

Which reminds me, time is short. I need to start work on my general election ballot shortly.