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Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Polls close in Ohio, North Carolina, WV
Bernard Hibbitts at 7:30 PM ET

[JURIST Election Special] 7:30 PM ET - The polls have now closed in Ohio, North Carolina and West Virginia. In Ohio, long lines at polling places prompted last-minute calls by Democrats for polling workers to hand out paper ballots. Line waits in some counties were up to five hours. The Columbus Dispatch has more.

7:31 PM ET - AP has called West Virginia for Bush.

7:43 PM ET - Back in Florida, with 3% of precincts reporting, the results look like this:

Bush/Cheney - 138,614 56.9%
Kerry/Edwards - 102,490 42.1%

7:49 PM ET - Updated results for Kentucky, already declared for Bush - with 58% of precincts reporting:

Bush/Cheney (R) 552,088 57%
Kerry/Edwards (D) 394,812 41%

With 17% of the actual vote counted in Indiana:

Bush/Cheney (R) 236,077 61%
Kerry/Edwards (D) 146,003 37%






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