KEY POINTS:
We look at some of the sites dedicated to tracking the US election and helping the public make an educated guess about the outcome.
1. techPresident.com
According to techPresident.com, "land mass does not equal votes". And they've set out to prove it by commissioning a web design firm to create a map that accurately shows each state's "electoral vote value".
They promise to update it daily with the current polling consensus from Pollster.com.
techPresident.com says the map presents "America as it really is".
Here: www.techpresident.com/ecmap
2 votehour.org
Tracking the election in a different way - some CEOs have bandied together to encourage their employees to vote. How? By telling them, via video, that they can take an hour out of work on Tuesday to vote - thus negating the excuse "I'm too busy to vote." Employees can also track how employers are doing - are they encouraging staff to get out and vote?
www.votehour.org
3 twittervotereport.com
techPresident.com have joined forces with a bunch of volunteers (software developers, designers, and other collaborators) to create Twitter Vote Report. The idea is that voters will use the platform as way to share their experiences and information. All going to plan, messages ('tweets') will be aggregated and mapped so votes can "see" national voting problems in real-time.
Here: twittervotereport.com
Read more about it here: tinyurl.com/5m3dzx
4 Washington Post
As the Washington Post piece states, this US election has produced an "explosion of real-time statistics".
To make some sense of what it all means, they've created interactive graphics like the one below simply so you can track and manage the statistical "explosion".
Here: http://tinyurl.com/6ysarl
5. Addict-o-matic
For an overwhelming abundance of information about the state of the US election just enter keywords like "US election update" into Addict-o-matic - the site aggregates anything and everything.
Here: http://tinyurl.com/6733td
