Monitoring the U.S. Elections Online?

shahman wonders: "I'll be on the road all day this election day, so the only access I'll have is through my PDA/Phone. I was wondering if any Slashdot readers know of WAP-enabled services or low-bandwidth sites that are providing (semi) real-time election coverage?" Nobbin has a similar, but less bandwidth-restrictive question: "I was wondering where I could find live results for the coming U.S. election, online. I live in Australia so I can't get them through watching CNN and so forth. I'm looking for something similar to the Austalian Electoral Commission's virtual tally room. So far, Google hasn't turned up much."

Wait for Diebold to tell you.

[jthayden]

Don't worry, Diebold has already decided who won, they'll let you know.

small minority of Congress seriously contested

[davidwr]

Only a few of the 33 Senate seats and no more than a few dozen of the House seats up for grabs are seriously contested. The winners of the rest are a foregone conclusion - not even Diebold can change that.

Handicappers are calling the Senate as 50-54 Republicans, with the rest Democrats or Independents. They are handicapping the House as likely to remain in Republican control.

Re:small minority of Congress seriously contested

[LostCluster]

Handicappers are calling the Senate as 50-54 Republicans

I'll take the under on there being 104 Senators at the end of the night. :)

real time monitoring

[bcrowell]

For real-time monitoring of the election results, read the morning paper every day. Repeat until mid-December.

SMS

[cuteseal]

To make sure your favourite idol returns next year, SMS "BUSH" or "KERRY" to "IDOLS04". Voting lines open at the end of tonight's show.

More coming up... after the break.

Re:Monitoring is not the same as influencing...

[yuriismaster]

But what if no one looked the results... ever? Will Bush be president, will kerry, or will the executive branch be caught in a quantum transitory state?

Re:Wait for Diebold to tell you.

[topher1kenobe]

Their main offices are in the same hanger they filmed the lunar landings and the Super Bowl in, right?

The way I see it...

[katpurz]

> I live in Australia so I can't get them through watching CNN and so forth

The way I see it, you're about 9 hours ahead of us (?) so why don't YOU tell US the outcome???

Re:Monitoring is not the same as influencing...

[dead sun]

He's planning on rioting if the candidate he supports isn't elected in an undisputed manner tomorrow. If he doesn't have up to the minute results he may miss out on knowing when to begin. If he doesn't know when to start rioting he'll miss out on all the good looting going on.

Seriously, do you have any idea how fast the good stuff gets looted?

I live in Australia too...

[B747SP]

I live in Australia so I can't get them through watching CNN and so forth.

I live in Australia too, and I gotta tell ya, it is infinitely frustrating. This election directly affects all of us here, and everyone in the other fifty (or however many it is) states has the constitutional right to vote, why not us? I suppose Hawaii went through the same thing at one stage, being separated from the mainland just like us.

I've got my Viagra ready, do you?

[killproc]

Oh, you said "Election" Day...

Re:Depends on what you mean by "real time"

[Hatta]

Besides, the Supreme Court won't get to vote for 3 or 4 weeks anyway.

Re:Monitoring is not the same as influencing...

[Wakkow]

But ... that's when I planned on voting [theonion.com]. Surely you mean Thursday.

My tally room:

[dameron]

2 six packs:

3 beers = I care who wins West Virginia

6 beers = I'm screaming "fuck" or "yeah" over and over.

9 beers = Oregon looks kinda shapely

12 beers = I wake up next to the District of Columbia and feel tired but nasty...

Voting's a lot like college...

-dameron

Re:I live in Australia too...

[oneishy]

I agree with you [to some extent] I believe that if we (americans) do value freedom and democracy as much as we say we do, we should be willing and open and have offered the oportuity to many countries to become states of the union. I know we have been used to having 50 states, but there is no reason as far as I can tell not to expand that and include *countries* like guam, etc...

Re:Monitoring is not the same as influencing...

[flyingsquid]

Thats like asking a kid to wait until Christmas to know what presents he got. Even if he can't open them before hand, he will try staring at them and shaking them in order to guess what he got.

I like your idea- I'm going to run up to voters, stare at them, and then grab ahold and shake them.

Wow nice title

[LordHatrus]

WHOA Ok, who else read "Monitor U.S. Erections" the first time?!

First Results are IN!!!

[JustOK]

Bush: 19 Kerry: 7

Re:auto-linking of URL

[fake_name]

> i love how the auto-linking of a URL requires user specification, and so isn't automatic at all.

I love how somone just got modded +5 informative for making a link clickable. :-)

Re:try CNN

[ari_j]

Screw CNN, The Onion [theonion.com] has a complete map [theonion.com] already.

Re:Wow nice title

[avij]

A Chinese and an American man were having a conversation.

The American said, "In the States we have elections every fourth year. How about you?"

The Chisese man replied, "That's awful! I have an election almost evely molning!"

Re:try CNN

[strider44]

Of course not. As Australians, we should be wide open to the issue of who runs our country for the next four years.

Unfortunately civil rights haven't yet advanced enough to allow Australian People votes to help decide our collective fate. It just shows how the "master race" of Americans still holds their superiority over the rest of the poor souls ruled under the American Presidency.

Re:The way I see it...

[Anonymous Coward]

The lawers are still fighting it out

As a European I support Bush and his ideology

[Steeltoe]

As a European, I'm thoroughly ashamed how many would vote for Kerry when clearly Bush is your only way to go. He has great vision, speech and plans for the future. What other candidate has great plans for going to mars? The US patriotism must never be allowed to die, because without it, where would the world be?

Kerry is just a multibillionaire. He's too intelligent. He speaks too coherently, consider the issues in detail, thus thinks TOO much (flip, flop). How can you trust Kerry with anything? Better to vote Independent than to vote Kerry.

As a European, it is incomprehensible to me that anybody could vote for somebody like Kerry. Bush is clearly the one you must vote for. So I urge every patriot US consumer to vote for Bush. You have to! Somebody must be left to save your Country!? I am seriously concerned about you.

You have to vote for Bush, as a European I demand it. Kerry can't be allowed to win any election, neither here or in the US.

I say Bush is your only choice. Either you're with me on this, or you're against me. There's no middle ground for you.

Either you have to vote for Bush, or you have to vote Independent. It's better for you to vote independent or don't vote at all, than to vote on Kerry, so you won't steal any votes from Bush. Kerry is absolutely a no-no for you. I know what's best for you, because God speaks through me.

For more information, here is the grand future plans for the US [newamericancentury.org]. Notice the names at the bottom, do you find Kerry there? NO. He's a wuss. He doesn't value our fundamental principles.

Re:lokal?? Is your keyboard broken?

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't mind Mr Frost. He can't type the letter C, so he uses the letter K instead. Apart from that that, he's perfectly alright. (Just don't say the word mattress to him, okay?)

Re:Online live updated applet

[Anonymous Coward]

I went to view the foxnews.com results applet, and it said Bush had already won. Further, there was no deficit, Saddam's WMD's had been found and disabled and the war in iraq was over. Oh, and John Kerry admitted he was a big woopsie who couldn't take care of his own garden, never mind the big old US-of A.

Re:lokal?? Is your keyboard broken?

[^DA]

Probably not. He's just a KDE user :)

Simpsons

[saider]

If it wasn't for plagarism, where would we get our new ideas?

Re:Try

[yaj]

Pollstats.com??

South Dakota??

Geez, I mean don't the Buffalo outnumber the people there?

Didn't we give the Dakotas back to the Indians, or the Canadians??

Re:Australia has the Fox News Channel!

[DrWhizBang]

It's easy to look at Fox from inside the US and think, "Wow, this is terrible..."

As a Canadian, I would like to add that it is also easy to look at Fox from outside the US and think, "Wow, this is terrible..."

Re:Simpsons

[Anonymous Coward]

>If it wasn't for plagarism, where would we get our new ideas?
If it wasn't for plagarism, where would we get our new ideas?

Re:Informed decisions

[3terrabyte]

Actually, I think only those who join the Armed Forces and fight the Bugs should earn their citizenship, and then have the right to vote!

Want to know more??

Re:Australia has the Fox News Channel!

[Anonymous Coward]

I shouldn't have to say this but... you're canadian, no one takes your bashing's seriously, even when your bashing what we're bashing. ;-)