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Election Night's First Numbers Arrive Before Its Conclusions Are Ready
· New York time
Results are expected to start coming in at 6 p.m. Eastern in Kentucky and Indiana as Americans vote in midterms with control of Congress at stake, NPR reports. The pace of counting and other variables will shape how the rest of the night unfolds. An early return is a beginning, not necessarily a reliable portrait of the final result. Different places report at different speeds, leaving the national picture to develop in stages. The broadcast clock can announce that election night has started; it cannot order every ballot to finish at once. The map has a schedule. The count has work to do.
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