I voted at about 5:30 PM, and the polls stay open until 8 PM in Minnesota. I live in a residential urban neighborhood with a large Somali and Latinx population, as well as a sizable fraction of middle class and upper middle class whites. The polling place is in a large apartment block that is heavily Somali, and we have the first female, Muslim Somali American woman running for the US House of Representatives for MN-01, and she should win handily in the heavily DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor, what we call the Democratic Party here in Minnesota) district.
Here in Minnesota, the Secretary of State’s office provides online access to spreadsheets with ward level (i.e., polling station) data on past elections back to 1992. That is actually an amazing fact. Regardless, it allowed me to see how the voting in my precinct has gone today compared to the last couple elections.
At 5:30 PM, I was voter number 763 at my station. In 2016, the ward had 1,146 total votes, so with 2.5 hours to go we were at 66.6% of the turn out in the last Presidential election. In 2014, the ward had 688 total votes, so when I voted we were already at 111% of the total vote in the ward in 2014! This can only be good news.