CALIFORNIA, USA — After polls close on election night, attention shifts to The Associated Press and the major TV networks to report the results and announce who will be the next president.
Some years, that official race call has come within hours of the first polls closing. But in recent years, it's taken longer to know for sure which candidate has won enough electoral votes to win the White House.
With such a close election, it's very likely we won't know the next president on Election Day — or, at the least, not on Election Day on the East Coast.
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