By David Gordon, associate editor A delay in determining the final results of Tuesday’s presidential election would not be a new phenomenon, according to Prof. Geoff Peterson, an expert local observer of elections. Peterson, who chairs the UW-Eau Claire Political Science department, said that close elections normally remained in doubt for several days until the 1970s, when news organizations first used exit polls to help them call results before final tallies were in. This year’s avalanche of absentee and early voting makes election day voter responses much less representative of the total turnout and will likely reduce or eliminate exit polls. “We got spoiled by exit polling,” Peterson said. To read more about Peterson's observations, please click on the headline.