I’d contemplated liveblogging the results, but then I thought I’d like to sit back and enjoy watching them! In any case, I suspect this will be the most liveblogged event in history, so there will no doubt be lots of places around the tubes where you can hit the refresh key all day, if that’s your thing! Links to good liveblogs solicited.
So please treat this thread as an open US election results thread.
Related posts: What to watch and what to expect, prospects for the Senate and the House and predictions.
The archive of all US election 2008 posts at LP can be accessed here.
Update: I’ve put up another post with a live results widget, and links to good places where you can follow the results via liveblogging.
Somebody has done a number on Catallaxy:
http://catallaxyfiles.com/
From what I’m seeing, voter turnout is going to be phenomenal. In NoVa and DC, waiting time to vote is around 1 and a half to two hours (based on the experiences of my coworkers).
Granted, DC is a fairly politically active area, but walking to the Metro this morning, it seemed that everyone had an ‘I voted’ sticker (at 9am!). Since higher turnout usually bodes well for the Democrats, it seems very unlikely we’ll get an unexpected Republican victory like we did in 2004. Fingers crossed!
Steve Edwards, would you please not link to hacked websites. I don’t appreciate having my browser crashed (or worse).
A quick google news search with “voting machines” suggests the actual counting of the vote might just be too hard for the US of A to be able to manage competently, still, today, even as predicted. What Standardisation?
Who needs conspiracies when you have legitimised incompetence?
Ironically enough, a non-profit citizen group can get it together to document and publish individual reported glitches as realtime reports of voter assistance calls made to 866-OUR-VOTE, Election Protection’s toll-free hotline.
Reports are coming in at about one a second.
A glass of something good around 4.00pm to celebrate the victory of parliamentary-style democracy (and Obama, hopefully) might be a good way to remember – but I’d rather have bonfires & crackers back!
Possum’s liveblogging at Crikey.
You can watch MSNBC’s coverage here.
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Le Leonard Cohen….
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=zdePVqDPa6I
Sail on, oh mighty ship of state, sail on.
Important question: what are people drinking? I’m rocking a Californian Cab Sav..
While the results is not quite a foregone conclusion, the question doesn’t seem to have been asked “Could Hilary have done it?”
cup of Joe, of course, Mick
Nicely done Zoe.
Yay! Stats from Kentucky and Indiana are coming in now. Check out either Talking Points Memo or MSNBC.
Further to danny @ 4, there was an article in the Oz yesterday talking about voting machines. One university study found an average error rate of 0.7%, another 1%. Yet another pointed out that one type of machine could be hacked in 7 seconds. Still we have machines without paper trails making recounts impossible.
Already there have been complaints of the machines flipping votes to a different candidate. That and 6 hour waits in line are in stark contrast with the technical competence and resource input required to put a man on the moon nearly 40 years ago.
I’m hoping that the vigilance of Obama’s on-the-ground team together with the sheer weight of numbers will mean that we won’t be talking about this stuff in the days and weeks ahead. But someone should make it their mission to set up an independent national electoral commission pronto to give the population a system they can trust.
Pay TV showed that documentary about voting machines and potential fraud last night (Hacking Democracy)
It was truly surreal flipping between that and Fox News, where those morons were complaining about voter fraud via registration. (and they were still rabbiting on about it last night). Get ready for the mother of “that election was STOLEN BY LIBERALS” bullshit from the conservative commentariat.
I’m finding a lot of sites hard to get onto, especially US sites – anyone else finding that? I wonder if the US internet is partially crashing!
yes Brian – the the sheer weight of numbers will carry the day with no dramas this time
Any news on that anti-gay thing being voted on in California?
I’m finding it OK but I’m connecting from the UK… It could be that the the links between the US and OZ are somewhat clogged. You could also try the Guardian website and the BBC for relatively up to date stats.
Anyone getting annoyed with channel 9’s coverage with them covering the electoral college vote with their logo?
I’m in London too Mick. It might be my server … I can’t figure out what’s wrong, as I can get some sites but not others – no Facebook and Typepad but I can, mostly, get the Guardian.
It seems they got rid of it.
CNN site looking good from here – Indiana looking very good too – big swings in various cowpoke counties
suz – I’m in Bristol not London! My nets are working exceptionally well by the way. The BBC coverage is really annoying by the way!
It is just their rotten arrogance to think that people would want them to superimpose their watermarks when they are trying to focus on something more important.
Corporate psychopaths again.
And Pennsylvania is predicted to go to Obama! While Chris Matthews may be overstating things a little with his ‘the McCain strategy has crashed’, but I’d say McCain is on pretty thin ice right now.
Update: I’ve put up another post with a live results widget, and links to good places where you can follow the results via liveblogging.
He’s done it!!!!