{"id":21237,"date":"2018-11-05T22:23:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21237"},"modified":"2018-11-05T22:23:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:23:15","slug":"us-midterms-2018-when-do-polls-open-and-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21237","title":{"rendered":"US midterms 2018: When do polls open and close?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"70.3092783505\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">More than 31 million people have already cast a ballot in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/events\/midterms-2018.html\">2018 US midterms<\/a> early voting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Millions more will head to the polls on November 6, in an election seen as a referendum on US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/donald-trump.html\">Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s first two years in office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Midterms generally garner low voter participation, but the Pew Research Center recently published a poll that found increased enthusiasm among voters this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">With tens of millions set to head to polling stations on Tuesday, here&#8217;s information about when polls open and close:\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"speakable\">What times do polls open?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"speakable\">First polls will open in Vermont at 5am local time (10GMT). Many other states on the East Coast will follow between 6am local time (11GMT) and 7am local time (12GMT).\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-embed-title-des article-shaded-blocks article-embedded-card\">\n<h3>Explaining the US midterms:<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Polls in Texas will open at 7am local time (13GMT).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Polls in California will open at 7am local time (15GMT).\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"speakable\">What time do polls close?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Most polling places will stay open for at least 12 hours. Many precincts will close between 6pm local time and 8pm local time, in their respective time zones.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 31 million people have already cast a ballot in the 2018 US midterms early voting.\u00a0 Millions more will head to the polls on November 6, in an election seen as a referendum on US President Donald Trump&#8217;s first two years in office.\u00a0 Midterms generally garner low voter participation, but the Pew Research Center&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}