But for some, we cant change the outcome in anyway, I hate the way content even on the Fediverse becomes. Yes its important but man. I was all into 2016 elections but it doesnt really change anything anyway. Americans go vote and all, though.

I just wanna talk about kernels and factorio, man

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Do you know when the first reliable results will come in?

I bet it will be quite late over here in the EU though 😔

Edit: thank you both, guess I'll see the results in the morning :-) or if I go pee in the middle of the night 😋

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Depends on how close it is. 2020 was a bit chaotic on account of COVID; 2012 and 2016 were both decisively called before 5 AM EST.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The first polls on the East Coast close at 2000, which will be 0100 Wednesday morning in the UK, 0200 CET.

It will take a while to count up all the votes, though, particularly in states where they don't start counting the mail-in vote until the election closes. I bet when you wake up on Wednesday we still won't really know.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

Well, they'll know how a lot of places will go, but this one will be probably close enough that I doubt that we'll be able to make a solid call on the election as a whole very early.

And always possible that there could be a Florida "hanging chads"-style challenge and effort to trigger recounts in any place that winds up extremely close in results, so that might extend it.

[–] Charlatan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

We won't know the winner til Thurs eve or Friday. My money is on Friday.