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Votecastr

Votecastr

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About

Votecastr[7] is a single-serving site designed to give Americans election results in real time throughout the 2016 United States Presidential Election day. It is a cause of concern and controversy because it upends a tradition in media to not disclose election day results until polls close, which news organizations have done to not potentially bias voters.

History

Votecastr is a private company from Ken Smukler, Sasha Issenburg, and Trevor Cornwell.[1] Described as a group of "data-scientists, journalists, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs" by The New York Times,[2] the group first gained media attention on September 10th, 2016 when they were profiled by the Times. The group, which will have their information broadcast on Slate[4] and Vice,[5] is releasing information that is available to campaigns on election day. A New York Times[3] piece published the day before the election illustrated how the information made President Obama's team nervous during the 2012 election. The New York Daily News[6] published an article in which they expressed fear that such information might depress voter turnout if they have it in real time.

Online Presence

As of November 7th, 2016, Votecastr has a limited social presence, with only 2,000 followers on Twitter.[8]

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External References

[1] Wikipedia – Votecastr

[2] The New York Times – Real-Time Election Day Projections May Upend News Tradition

[3] New York Times – You May Need a Strong Stomach for the Pitfalls of Real-Time Election Projections

[4] Slate – Welcome to an Unprecedented Election Day Experiment

[5] Vice – For the first time ever, get real-time exit poll results from VICE News and VoteCastr

[6] New York Daily News – Fears VoteCastr's new real-time tracking in swing states could depress voter turnout

[7] Votecastr

[8] Twitter – @votecastr

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I checked the site out of curiosity. It looks so amateurish and devoid of info about how it works that it just seems really hard to trust. Nowhere does it say how it works and more than half of the entire site is about why they think that providing real-time results is "ethically correct" compared to not letting people know, and one of the first things you see are links to US media sites of articles going in-depth about that.

It also shows "partners" at the bottom end… that you cannot click or verify in any way whatsoever, so they could just completely be making that up to sound more credible through appeal to authority.

Lastly, the whole site addresses the people handling the voting results in a rather passive-aggressive tone, making you wonder if they have a personal bone to pick with them, thus making them sound even more unreliable if they are all about some neutrality of sorts.

Yes…… no, I call bullshit on this one.

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I know, right..? Manual, paper votes from MILLIONS of citizens all around USA updating in real time..? Sounds impossible unless the people counting the votes are also the ones updating the site, which they would not be able to do without others noticing and getting into deep shit for breaking the "tradition". And even then, seriously, "real-time voting count". If such a thing was possible to program and show reliably, we would not even need people doing that manually to begin with. If such a thing was possible, online voting would also be possible, and it is not.

It must be clickbait to get site views from people gullible (and nervous) enough to buy it, really.

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