Election Returns Website

October 31, 2004 7:50 PM

What website should I be locked into on Tuesday night? I want raw data, real-time lists of media and VNS calls for various states, as well as info on Senate and House returns.
posted by PrinceValium to Law & Government (9 answers total)

hosted.ap.org is a good choice, but not all on one page.

I can't think of any that meet your criteria, actually, which is pretty ambitious. Look for the Votemaster to at least try, based on how much he has done this election cycle. Note that all sites will have some lag from the official results posted at each secretary of states' or election chiefs' web site.
posted by calwatch at 7:56 PM on October 31, 2004

me too this awesome question.

My plans so far involve Jon Stewart, pizza, and beer. Viv sez y'all can drop by, but bring beer, m'kay?
posted by mwhybark at 8:16 PM on October 31, 2004

I plan to have the Secretary of State websites for certain important states tabbed in my browser to look at the returns for the actual vote count. It came in handy in 2000 when the Florida count got closer and closer even after they had called it for Bush.
posted by gyc at 8:32 PM on October 31, 2004

Let your cat walk across the keyboard

at long last, 'XQUZYPHYR' explained!
posted by quonsar at 8:42 PM on October 31, 2004

I asked a similar question last week.
posted by gluechunk at 11:15 PM on October 31, 2004

Response by poster: oops, sorry gluechunk.
Looks like the AP wire is best, though i feel sadly unsatisfied.
posted by PrinceValium at 4:38 AM on November 1, 2004

For the record, VNS no longer exists. Exit polling this year is being done by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International. (Here for more info, although it doesn't look like they'll actually be posting poll results at that site.)
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 7:00 AM on November 1, 2004

i was worried about this too, but the electoral-vote.com guy has just announced that he will stay up all night tomorrow and update his site in real time.
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 8:46 AM on November 1, 2004

Response by poster: Here's CNN's template, which looks pretty good. Hopefully it will be updated quickly. I would like to track calls made by other media outlets, though.
posted by PrinceValium at 9:37 AM on November 1, 2004