# Why polls close early in Kentucky and Indiana?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-polls-close-early-in-kentucky-and-indiana/379373>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 7, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-polls-close-early-in-kentucky-and-indiana/379373 "2006-11-07T00:48:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Madvoter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Madvoter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madvoter)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-polls-close-early-in-kentucky-and-indiana/379373/21 "2010-11-05T20:40:28Z")

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> [@Darth\_Panda](#):
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> Try telling the campaign of the person that you wanted to vote for - I imagine that they would have both the motivation and the capacility to do something about it.

I’ll try that. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-polls-close-early-in-kentucky-and-indiana/379373/22 "2010-11-05T20:56:46Z")

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> [@samclem](#):
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> Is this just these last two holding on to something that existed some years ago in other states?

Possibly. I do recall the polls closing at 6:00 local time in Illinois when I was a child, although I can’t find any substantiation online. People always complained that it was hard to get to the polls after work, and they changed it to 7:00–it would have been around 1970. The tradeoff, of course, was that it made an already long day for the election judges even longer.

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