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Don’t wait for the anchors from the three main news networks to tell you the results, get them in real time. And you don’t need to take their word for it, search vote results yourself, even at the county level all around the country.
NYTimes.com allows site users to search election results by county with a tool that [...]

NYTimes.com’s Election Night Pop-Up Dashboard

Posted by: ijp on: 4 November 2008

The NY Times website offers an election night “dashboard” pop-up window that will keep tally in real time of the Electoral College votes for the presidential race as well as the gains and losses for the Democrats and Republicans in House and Senate seats .
www.nytimes.com
If 120 seconds is too long to wait for the latest election results (that’s the amount [...]

Crowdsourcing Election Monitoring, Coverage

Posted by: kegill on: 3 November 2008

Using powerful digital tools not even in alpha four years ago, Americans are documenting election day 2008, with special emphasis on the experience at the polls. We’ve entered the age of Big Brother surveillance, and he is us.

Internet Grows Greatly as Source for Campaign News

Posted by: gjchatalas on: 2 November 2008

This blog will be following the election coverage of various media sources. I, for one, will be checking out blogs and results online, but will also be tuned into the television. As it turns out, I’m not alone.
A just-released study shows that television continues to be the main source of news related to the 2008 [...]