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Most people are expected to vote early — by mail, in-person or by drop box. Those ballots require the verification of voters’ signatures, and officials say the timing of results will depend on how many people return their ballots at the last minute on Election Day. No results are released until 10 p.m. Eastern. Learn more about the timing of results ›

Counting could be faster than in 2020, when 68 percent of votes were reported by midnight Eastern and 77 percent were reported by noon on Wednesday. Officials are now allowed to begin processing mail ballots before Election Day; in 2020, mail ballots could not be opened or counted until after the election. Learn more about the timing of results ›

Live forecast: Estimating the outcomeThis is our current best estimate for the outcome of this race. We look at the votes that have been reported so far and adjust our estimate based on what we expect from the votes that remain. See the full forecast ›

While officials said it could take awhile for counties to begin uploading results after the polls close, they did not make predictions for the pace of reporting. (In 2020, it took three days for 90 percent of the vote to be reported.) The state conducts a predominantly mail-ballot election, and ballots postmarked by Election Day have four days to arrive. Learn more about the timing of results ›

Officials are not permitted to begin processing mail ballots before Election Day, and the state’s top election official said it would most likely take several days for full unofficial results to be available. Early returns could give a misleading impression of a large Republican advantage before all mail ballots are counted. Learn more about the timing of results ›

Officials expect the pace of vote reporting to be similar to the pace in 2020, when 91 percent of votes were reported by midnight Eastern and 99 percent were reported by noon on Wednesday. Counties are required to finish reporting the unofficial vote count within 24 hours, although they may seek an extension. Learn more about the timing of results ›

OregonTina Kotek, a former state House speaker, hopes to retain Oregon Democrats’ 36-year hold on the governorship and would be one of the first openly lesbian governors if she won. She faces Christine Drazan, a Republican, and Betsy Johnson, an independent.

An amendment would state there is no right to abortion, or any requirement to fund abortion, in the State Constitution.

Officials said they expected complete unofficial results by Wednesday night. Because of a recent change in state law, some jurisdictions will begin processing mail ballots two days before the election. Early returns could give a misleading impression of a large Republican advantage before all mail ballots are counted. Learn more about the timing of results ›

State officials in Georgia expect that results will be reported faster than in 2020, when 77 percent of votes were reported by midnight Eastern and 95 percent were reported by noon on Wednesday. There’s a possibility that the high-profile Senate race won’t be decided until a Dec. 6 runoff election, which will be triggered if no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote. Learn more about the timing of results ›

Florida allows mail ballots to be processed and counted before Election Day, and many voters cast early ballots, so the state tends to be fast at reporting results. Votes processed before the election must be reported within 30 minutes once polls close. Learn more about the timing of results ›

☆ Opinion | Frustrated With Polling? Pollsters Are, Too
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Quoctrung Bui | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +18 min

But what’s really troubling pollsters going into this election is that it’s unclear how much more error these problems will add during this cycle. Just because you put the right ingredients in a bowl, doesn’t mean you’re going to end up with a cake. I think a lot of that has been swept under the rug because the move to online polling seems so inexorable. Pollsters don’t know what people are seeing, hearing and reading. I know at FiveThirtyEight you can search by A-rated or B-rated, but I don’t know how they’re coming up with these ratings.

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