Presidential Preference Primary Election Testing, Advisory
EDITORS:
NEWS DIRECTORS:
NOT FOR BROADCAST, PUBLICATION OR USE ONLINE
The New Hampshire presidential preference primary election is Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020.
Poll close: 7:00, 7:30, 8:00 p.m. EST
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ELECTION PROFILE:
The Associated Press will tabulate and report the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries from 238 cities and towns in New Hampshire. In addition to the 33 Democratic and 17 Republican candidates, “Total Write-ins” will also be tabulated and released in each party primary.
ANOMALIES:
Polls in Dixville, Hart’s Location and Millsfield will open at 12 a.m. EST on Feb. 11 and will close shortly thereafter. State law allows municipalities to close the polls and report unofficial votes when all registered voters have voted. The AP will advise on how the votes from the three locations will be tabulated and released. Polls in the rest of the state close starting at 7 p.m. EST.
Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente is running in the Republican presidential primary. His son, initialized as Roque De La Fuente III, is running in the Democratic presidential primary.
TESTING INFORMATION:
Jan. 20 (Mon) 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EST: All Customers
Jan. 23 (Thu) 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EST: All Customers (No TTT)
Jan. 27 (Mon) 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EST: All Customers
Jan. 29 (Wed) 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. EST: All Customers
Jan. 30 (Thu) 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. EST: All Customers (No TTT)
Feb. 5 (Wed) 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. EST: All Customers
Feb. 6 (Thu) 9 – 10 a.m. EST: All Customers (No TTT)
Feb. 10 (Mon) 9 – 10 a.m. EST: All Customers
Test results are created electronically to test the accuracy of the election night reporting system. They should not be broadcast, published, replicated or posted on websites. Report frequency in testing may not reflect the actual election night schedule.
This advisory will be updated throughout the testing period. Races, candidates and precincts are considered preliminary until AP advises that they are final. Changes may be made up to Election Day.
Zeros will be transmitted after testing on the eve of the election.
Race calls: AP will make race calls on election night unless a race is too close to call. Race calls will be made during testing, except on the day of the final test.
Winners: AP will move a list of unofficial winners, NH-Winners, at the end of tabulation and during each test, except on the final day of testing.
End of tabulation: AP will advise when its election night tabulation of results has concluded, generally before 6 p.m. EST the day after the election.
DELEGATE ALLOCATION:
During testing and on election night, AP will allocate presidential delegates, except during the day of the final test, Monday, Feb. 10. Allocation may not reach 100 percent of available delegates during testing or on election night.
The New Hampshire Democrats have 24 pledged delegates, allocated by district and statewide vote per standard Democratic proportional allocation rules. The New Hampshire Republicans have 22 pledged delegates allocated proportionally by statewide vote.
ELECTION DAY INFORMATION:
Premium Election Customers:
Premium Election Products (API, APEO-FTP, ANPA-FTP, DNE Elections) will have live zeros by 2 a.m. EST Election Day.
AP Newsroom and Webfeeds Users:
On Election Day from 1-2 p.m. EST, there will be a "live" (nontest) transmission of reports with zeros sent to AP Newsroom and Webfeeds. Pull in these live zero reports to clear your systems of test data.
DEFINITIONS OF KEY WORDS IN STATE SLUGS:
"TopRaces-Glance-Sum" contains race-wide results in summary format for the following contests AP considers editorially significant: Democratic and Republican presidential primaries.
"Cnty" provides results in tabular format by city/town for a race.
"CntyLong" provides results in summary format by city/town for a race.
“Delg-SumD” shows the number of delegates estimated to be allocated to each candidate in the Democratic and Republican presidential primary races.
“Delg-Dist” includes Democratic candidates’ delegate allocations by Congressional District, with the total number of precincts reporting. The Republicans do not allocate by Congressional District.
"Reg-County" provides results in tabular format by county and city/town for a race.
“Reg-County-Sum” provides results in a tabular format by county for a race.
“Reg-CD-Sum” provides results for each Democratic primary candidate by Congressional District in a tabular format.
ELECTION NIGHT SLUGS BY SERVICE / ELECTION NIGHT REPORT SCHEDULE
Here are the slugs for the reports AP will provide and approximate times they will move for each service on election night:
Premium Elections Results via Digital Feeds (API, ANPA-FTP, APEO-FTP, DNE Elections): Results are updated every one to three minutes for API/DNE and four to five minutes for APEO-FTP and ANPA-FTP.
NH-TopRaces-Glance-Sum
NH-Dem-Delg-SumD
NH-Dem-Delg-Dist, 9 Takes
NH-Dem-Pres-Reg-CD-Sum, 9 Takes
NH-Dem-Pres-Reg-County-Sum, 9 Takes
NH-Dem-Pres-Reg-County, 9 Takes
NH-Dem-Pres-CntyLong, 10 Takes
NH-Dem-Pres-Cnty, 9 Takes
NH-GOP-Delg-SumD
NH-GOP-Pres-Reg-County-Sum, 5 Takes
NH-GOP-Pres-Reg-County, 5 Takes
NH-GOP-Pres-CntyLong, 10 Takes
NH-GOP-Pres-Cnty, 5 Takes
Member Choice Basic / Member Choice Plus / Member Choice Complete, includes Webfeeds and AP Newsroom:
NH-TopRaces-Glance-Sum, at :20 and :50
NH-Dem-Delg-SumD, at :05, :35
NH-GOP-Delg-SumD, at :05, :35
NH-Dem-Delg-Dist, 9 Takes, at :40
NH-Dem-Pres-Cnty, 9 Takes, at :20
NH-GOP-Pres-Cnty, 5 Takes, at :20
OpenWire / NewsPower / Newspower Max, includes Webfeeds and AP Newsroom:
NH-TopRaces-Glance-Sum, at :20 and :50
NH-Dem-Delg-SumD, at :35
NH-GOP-Delg-SumD, at :35
Headlines, includes Webfeeds and AP Newsroom:
NH-TopRaces-Glance-Sum, at :50
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