Voting on Election Day: Here's when polls close for all 50 states

There’s always kind of like one or two races that are just, you know, ridiculously close, and it just goes to a recount, or whatever the process may be,

McCoy said

It’s not Sean Hannity making that determination,

Whener said

In the two most populous counties, they don’t finish counting until 1am or 2am,

Whener said

Obviously, there are some states that are going to be basically called at full closing,

said Drew McCoy, president of Decision Desk HQ

News organizations have gotten a lot more nervous about making early calls because they don’t want to have to take a call back like they did in 2000,

said Mike Whener, a professor studying elections at the University of Wisconsin

David Scottastronaut

Our standard is absolute certainty,

said David Scott, head of news strategy and operations at the Associated Press

Larry Sabatopolitical analyst

If Jen Kiggans lost in Virginia Beach, that would be an upset. If [Eugene] Vindman lost in Northern Virginia, Virginia-7, that’d be an upset. And if these races go chalk, that’s reflecting what we expected, which is a really close House race,

said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan election forecaster at the University of Virginia