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With magic walls, transparent 3D monitors and other kinds of high-tech gadgets that will be used to illustrate emerging election results, television will still grab the lion’s share of the electorate’s attention this evening.
But the web will also provide the world with plenty of data, and will be of especial interest to those living outside of the United States.
CNN.com Live, ABC News and MSNBC will stream live coverage on the web. And most of the major American television news outlets offer a plethora of live election results widgets. In addition to Video Your Vote, Current TV’s viewers are also sending in videos of their election experiences.
For its part, The New York Times has this fun word graphic that allows voters to share their sentiments about Election Day with each other online. And you can examineKarl Rove’s electoral prediction map here.
Google has set up a live elections result map that will be updated with data from the Associated Press. You can look at the results, and compare them with presidential election results and demographic between 1980 to 2004 on a separate map that the company created in a partnership with the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab. Both maps provide data down to the county level.
National Journal has created this great Political Almanac mash-up map that provides you with detailed political and demographic statistics about every state.
Below is a map from CNN that shows poll closing times across the United States. Some pundits are predicting that we could know as soon as 7 or 8 pm who’s won the election based on exit poll results from Virginia and a couple of other states on the East Coast.
And of course, you should also check in periodically to take a look at Wired.com’s own voting problem map, where our readers are reporting in from across the country.
If you still don’t know where you’re supposed to go to vote, find out using Google’s polling station locator. Just type in your address.
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